U.S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel and a Major, directing ground operations from control tower at U-Tapao Air Base. Two B-52s of the SAC 4258th Strategic Wing, taxi from the flight line. View of the main gate at the U-Tapao Air Base, Thailand.
Final approach cockpit view to runway 18 at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. View of air strip. Aircraft parked at the air base. Plane approaches air strip for landing. This is the final clip in a series of 9 in a row showing approach for landing at the following Thai Air Base locations: Don Muang AB runway No. 21; Korat AB runway No. 24; Udorn AB runway No. 30; Phitsanulok AB runway No. 33; Takhli AB runway No. 36; Ubon AB runway No. 05; Chiang Mai AB runway No. 36; Nakhon Phanom AB runway No. 15; U-Tapao AB runway No. 18.
B-52D strategic bombers, converted to carry conventional munitions, in Operation Arc Light, at U-Tapao during Vietnam War. Numerous U.S. Air Force B-52D bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are parked in concrete revetments at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. A single B-52 begins to taxi out of its parking place. As it turns toward the camera, sunlight glints off its windshield. It taxis slowly between the other parked aircraft. Scene shifts to a B-52 moving slowly along a taxiway towards the active runway, where two other B-52s are holding short. Low mountains dominate the background. Next, the taxiing B-52 continues along, behind only one other holding short of the active runway. (These three B-52s are likely leaving on a 3-aircraft Arc Light mission over Vietnam.) View of another B-52 taxiing past one parked in a revetment, while another B-52 departs on a long takeoff role along the active runway, in the background. Camera focuses on a B-52 taking off and becoming airborne.
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.
Two American airman standing alongside stacks of bombs in U.S. ammunition storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy AirfieldThailand. One gives hand signals to fork operator to come forward. The airmen roll three bombs onto the Forklift blades, from an open wooden crate. After the forklift leaves, the airmen lift away the empty crate, and expose three more bombs ready to be picked up. The forklift returns and they roll three more bombs onto its blades. The airmen then pick up the empty bomb cradle and wooden skid underneath it, and carry them away. Sign over a building at base entry point reads "U-Tapao 635 MMS Munitions Storage Area". A couple of Air Force vehicles near the gate.
Air Force tractor pulls a rack of bombs under the wing of a B-52 bomber and to the front of the aircraft, parked on a ramp at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, during the Vietnam war. Photograpner slate interrupts, followed by view of another tractor pulling several racks of bombs under and past the B-52. The train of bomb racks continues moving along the ramp toward other B-52s parked in revetments.
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