United States President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon on tour to Thailand. President Nixon and First Lady during a state dinner at the Grand Palace (Na Phra Lan Rd, Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200, Thailand). He addresses Thai dignitaries and officials before dinner. Thai Generals at the dinner. Everybody in the house raises a toast. Lights and decoration at the palace.
Film opens showing an intermediate munitions handling facility near a seaport in Thailand. Trucks are lined up on the roadside, next to huge earthen berms. U.S. Airmen ride in the back of an open truck leaving the site, transporting crates of Mk 82 bombs to munitions storage facility at U-Tapao Royal Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai workers stand in a group, conversing, near a corrugated metal shelter at the side of the road, and watch as the truck disappears from view in the distance. Scene shifts to closeup of the U.S. Air Force truck driver in his cab, talking on a walkie talkie radio. As he talks, the truck passes large numbers of munitions stockpiled outdoors between earthen berms. View from the truck cab as it passes tractor trailer trucks and fork lifts operating in the area. Rearward view from the moving truck. View, from left side of the moving truck, shows red markers at the edge of each earthen revetment separating adjacent storage areas. Some such areas are empty. Next, the moving truck passes a mobile crane hooking up to bombs on the back of a flat bed truck. A team of Air Force munitions handlers is involved, including one moving bombs on a fork lift.
Munition operations at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Closeup of U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs on a flat bed truck in a bomb assembly area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. When they finish the driver climbs into the truck cab. Closeup of writing on truck door reading: "U.S. Air Force, 67B 1362, For Oficial Use Only." It pulls out of the assembly bay. Closeup of driver speaking on mobile telephone in the truck, as he drives.
Ammunition Storage Facility at U-Tapao Airfield ,Thailand. U.S. airmen directs forklift operator as he scoops up three bombs from an open wooden crate.The forklift operator then carries them to a flatbed truck, where another U.S. airman and team of Thai workers roll them down a wooden track onto the truck. They repeat the process.
Front view of KC-135 Air Force tanker taxiing at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield near Sattahip, Thailand, after landing. View of KC-135, tail number 60-5345. taxiing. Several planes are parked in background. Another KC-135 taxiing, with last four digits 8032 painted near nose on fuselage. It has a blue stripe around its fuselage and a unit logo, as well. Next, a camouflaged Lockheed EC-121R "Batcat" Super Constellation of the 553rd Recon Wing,from Korat RTAFB, is seen taxiing .(It has tail number 67-21473, and is temporarily operating here, while the runway at Korat is being resurfaced.)
B-52 lifts off the field. B-52 taxiing on the runway in preparation for take off. Giant B-52 taxies out. A B-52 taxiing for take off. A B-52 leaving. Sign reading "Taxie Away". A B-52 taxiing for take off on the runway at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Sattahip Thailand. A giant plane lifting off. A B-52 taxiing for take off, plane leaves. The B-52 taxiing for take off. Hilly terrain in far background. A B-52 plane leaves.