Pallets of supplies loaded into Flying Tiger Airline's Boeing 707 at the Travis Air Force Base in California. 'Red Ball USA' written on the crates.
A guard tower of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division in Dian, South Vietnam. A U.S. soldier atop the tower looks through his binoculars. The soldier removes a Starlight Telescope from case and looks through it. (Vietnam War period).
A guard tower of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division in Dian, South Vietnam. A U.S. soldier atop the tower operates AN/PSS-4 short range surveillance radar set. (Vietnam War period).
AN/MPQ-4 counter mortar radar screen rotates at a U.S. 1st Infantry Division's base camp in Dian, South Vietnam.
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing his appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American to become a justice in the United States Supreme Court. Johnson notes that, "the senate willing, he will become associate justice to succeed justice Clark." Various still images of Thurgood Marshall's career in court. An African American man notes, "now, a new generation of Thurgood Marshalls must struggle to make the constitution live."
View through cockpit window as United States Army 12th Air Commando aircraft (Fairchild C-123 Provider) together in formation flight, over "The Trace", a ten-mile strip of land that lies between Con Thien and Gia Linh, Vietnam as part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War. A Fairchild C-123 Provider descends to prepare to spray defoliant agent over Vietnam. View of pilot wearing hard helmet taken from behind the cockpit. View of “The Trace” (between Con Thien and Gia Linh) from the cockpit of the Fairchild C-123 Provider.