U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. Three crew members in a parking area at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. U.S. Navy Lockheed P-2H aircraft on a line. A tow bar being attached to P-2H aircraft. P-2H being towed to the parking area. A sign on the aircraft reads 'Navy VP-2'. Four flight crewmen walk down the line past the P-2H aircraft.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market time of the Vietnam War. Nose of an aircraft parked at an air base. A sign on the cockpit of the aircraft reads 'C.P. LTJG E.J. Hopkins'. Another sign reads 'Lt. Swenson' and 'Lt. Hopkins'. Two flight crew men work on a tow bar. They hook the bar to the nose of the aircraft. A tractor backs down and the men hook up the bar to the back of the tractor. The tractor driver works on the controls as he moves the aircraft out of the turn up area. The tow bar being attached to the tractor. The aircraft being slowly moved to the turn up area. The tractor tows the aircraft. A crew member releases the tow bar from the tractor. The tow bar being released from the aircraft. A pilot climbs aboard the aircraft. Two crewmen stand by as the starboard engine is started. The port engine turns up slowly. A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-2H aircraft taxis out from a line. A U.S. Navy Phantom F-4B taxis down the line with a drogue parachute open.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-2H aircraft taxis at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. Aircraft in flight. One of the patrol aircraft returns. A U.S. Navy C-117 Hummer aircraft moves towards a parking area. A patrol aircraft taxis in to the parking area. A P-2H aircraft taxis to the parking area. Ground crew directs the aircraft as it makes a starboard turn. The aircraft in parking area as crew men stand next to the aircraft. Engines stop. The aircraft being towed to a parking area.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. Flight crew gathered around Lieutenant Commander B.D. Johnson as he gives a pre flight talk. Flight crew on the line next to a U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft. A tractor backs down to the tow bar of the SP-2H aircraft. The SP-2H aircraft being towed by a tractor. A crewman stands nearby as port engines start up. The SP-2H aircraft on the line as engines rev up. A crewman stands next to the aircraft. A Vietnamese Navy observer looks out of the window of the SP-2H while in flight.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese Navy observer writes down on a pad in his lap. U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft in flight and a winding river below. The SP-2H in flight over a heavy cloud cover. The Vietnamese observer on a radio with an area map in his lap. A crewman works with a practice depth charge. Three U.S. ships underway in the Gulf of Tonkin during underway replenishment. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) and a fleet oiler ship underway. A pilot at the controls in the cockpit. Three ships underway at sea as seen through a window during a fly by. Two crewmen. Lieutenant Commander B.D. Johnson talks over a microphone. A forward observer with a map lying across the lap. Lieutenant Junior Grade Webber looks through binoculars while seated in the bow of the aircraft. Lieutenant Junior Grade Webber works on a navigational chart. Crewmen get ready for 'Gold dust' mail and magazine drop to USS Woodpecker, a patrol boat. USS Woodpecker underway. A smoke marker burns on water off the port side of the ship. A freighter underway at sea. The port side of a merchant ship underway at sea.
U.S. Navy aircraft in Vietnam during Operation Market Time of the Vietnam War. A small island in silhouette during the approach to Phu Quoc. Land as seen through the nose of an aircraft. A shoreline as seen from the aircraft. Rain squall as seen off to the right. A gunner fires a machine gun in the waist hatch of the aircraft.