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.
View from another ship of the United States Navy destroyer USS Preble (DLG-15) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags raised on the ship. Naval guns in view. Smoke rises up from the smokestack. The crew on the deck of the USS Preble. The ship takes a turn. (Note: USS Preble, DLG-15, which was the last ship to be hit by enemy gunfire in the Vietnam War, was re-designated as DDG-46 on July 1st 1975)
USS Hancock CVA-19, on patrol at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War, approaches port side of USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler for refueling. Fuel line from USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler to USS Hancock CV-19. Men wear life jackets on the ship. Crew of second division handles lines. One man of second division holds the line during refueling. A man high lined from USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler to USS Hancock CV-19 during refueling. He reaches the Sponson deck.
United States aircraft lands on USS Hancock CV19 in the Pacific Ocean during Air Strike in South Vietnam. Pilot's eye view of approach to USS Hancock CV19. U.S. F8E Crusader approaches and lands on the deck of USS Hancock CV19. Meatball is seen in the center of the Fresnel Lens System in left of the ship. Second approach is made and plane touches down and makes arrested landing. Plane taxies forward over the deck.
Significant events and happenings in the year 1966. Seven nation summit conference on Vietnam in Manila. Pope Paul VI meets with the Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey in Rome, Italy. Wedding of the year in which President Lyndon Johnson's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson weds Patrick Nugent. Rescue workers take out victims of floods and landslides in various parts of world. American people cast their votes in the elections.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
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