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U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand.

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.

Date: 1969, April 23
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039079
Men pushing empty bomb rack dolly away from B-52D at U-Tapao Airfield in Thailand.

B-52Ds in SEA. Truck towing bomb bay rack on dolly pulling up beside B-52D at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Men pushing empty bomb rack dolly away from B-52D. Men pushing a dolly loaded with bomb racks and another with a machine.

Date: 1968, July 13
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034400
First three B-52 aircraft of the U.S. Strategic Air Command 4433rd Bomb Wing land at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand

View of the first three U.S. B-52 bombers (of a force of 15) landing at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand on April 10, 1967. These bombers hit targets in Vietnam on their way to U-Tapao. (The entire force arrived during the period from April through July, 1967, on temporary assignment from the Strategic Air Command 4433rd Bomb Wing at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam.) The B-52s are under the command of the SAC 3rd Air Division. The aircraft land with wing flaps down and deploy drag chutes to slow their ground rolls.Officers of the 4258th Strategic Wing,and Royal Thai Air Force greet the arriving aircrews. The event is recorded by photographers, along with newsmen from Japan, Thailand, United States and Philippines. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1967, April 10
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047098
Men fueling B-52D at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand.

Men fueling B-52D. Men fusing 750lb bombs on lowboy. Tractor truck loaded with 750 lb bombs pulling up to B-52D.

Date: 1968, July 13
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034401
U.S. Air Force Transport and munitions handling at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand

Film opens with view from left side of a U.S. Air Force truck moving in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The moving truck passes a team of Air Force munitions handlers off loading bombs from a flat bed truck, using a mobile crane. A crate of bombs has just been set on the ground. Next, the camera truck approaches an entrance gate of the facility, where an Air Force surveyor stands with a transit on a tripod. Several Thai persons stand in the shade of the entrance guard shack. One carries a camera. A guard is posted at the roadway. A sign atop the guard shack reads: "U-Tapao, 635 MMS, Munitions Storage Area." Closeup of the armed guard as he checks the camera truck and motions it to proceed. Scene changes showing a Thai truck carrying explosives, approaching to enter the Storage area. It is waved on by the armed sentry. Closeup of the sign at the Storage area entrance, shows logos of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Air Forces and the 13th Air Force. A U.S. Air Force tractor trailer truck, loaded with bombs, drives in an area of the facility containing racks of M117 General Purpose Bombs on low trailers in yellow steel shelters. Closeup of an Airman moving a bomb into a cradle that carries it up into the rack. An Air Force munitions handler rolling M117 bombs by their fins. Next, a munitions handling team is seen using a mobile crane to move a crate of bombs from a flat bed truck. The Team supervisor (a Staff Sergeant) spreaks into a walkie talkie radio during the operations.

Date: 1969, April 23
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039067
C-5A approach and landing at U-Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand.

A board reads "WELCOME TO U-TAPAO AIRFIELD" at U-Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand. Also written in Thai. Scene of the sky. A board reads "WELCOME TO U-TAPAO RTNB DET6 6TH AERIAL PORT SQUADRON PASSENGER TERMINAL". C-5A approach and landing. A man shows a paper .

Date: 1972, August 30
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034387