Desron (Destroyer Squadron) 20 returns from Vietnam. Crewmen on the fantail of a DD as it is tied up at a shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island. A stern line seen over in the foreground. A young boy holds a sign which reads 'Welcome Home Johnny'. A port bow view shows USS Brownson (DD-868) being eased up towards the pier for tying up. A silhouetted view of crewmen up on the bow of the ship. A flag on the stern of another DD seen in the foreground. Line handlers, handling lines on the pier for the USS Brownson, in deep silhouette. A navy sentry holds onto the line keeping the crowd back. Crewmen on the fantail of the DD. A woman holding a small boy in her arms waves. A small lad holds a sign 'Welcome home Johnny'. Brow being put in place by one of the dock cranes of the DD. A large group of dependents. One of them holds a large sign reading: 'Welcome Home Don'. A mother and many other dependents wave. Three enlisted men man the rail of the DD during the tying up. Crewmen aboard a DD. One of them waves and talks to someone on the pier. Reunions take place. An officer in the foreground kisses his wife. A man recording the events with his movie camera. The dependents rush towards the brow to go aboard one of the DDs.
Trailer trucks loaded with bombs enters the munitions loading docks at a Strategic Air Command Base in Guam, during the Vietnam War. Armorers assemble tail fins and insert fuses in AN-M113A1 thousand pound bombs. Caps being removed and fuses being screwed into bomb noses. Arming wires fastened to the fuses. 750 pound bombs being unloaded from racks and mounted under wings of B-52. Loaded B-52s taking off from airfield in darkness and climbing to high cruise altitudes from where the setting sun is still visible, as they fly West.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon appears before a panel of citizens in a program, Michigan, United States. The television program is named 'Man in the arena'. The panel sits in the center of the studio. Audience seated in the studio. Richard Vidmer seated in the panel asks Richard Nixon a question about his idea of forming a Volunteer Army. Richard Nixon talks about the Vietnam War and how a Volunteer Army would help in such wars. His daughters seated in the audience. Audience applauds Richard Nixon as he answers in the arena.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. View of the starboard of the ship. A Merchant Ship underway in the foreground. The Merchant Ship moves in the opposite direction. The USS Intrepid (CVS-11) at sea. Aircraft parked on the ship. A channel buoy in the background.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) underway at a sea. The ship departed for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. View of the starboard of the ship. Aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier. A view of a red channel buoy. The port beam of the ship in view. The ship passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel area. Part of the tunnel area in the background. Port bow of the ship in view. Several small ships in the background. The ship passes a channel buoy. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel in the background.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. USS Intrepid underway at a sea. Aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier. A view of channel buoy. The ship passes between two channel buoys. View of the starboard quarter of the ship. A view of port bow. NOB piers in the far background. A Dock Landing Ship passes by.
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