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.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Almond B Doud Jr. and crew being briefed by Major Ralph W Walker, Airlift Command Post duty officer, at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand.
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.
Thais and airmen pushing cargo pallets from C-5A, across K-loader and onto trailer at U-Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand.
C-5A taxiing under direction of Thai worker at U-Tapao air base Thailand. C-5A first engine. Airmen roping off area around C-5A. Nozzle is connected to C-5A fueling receptacle. Fueling of C-5A from ramp reservoir.
U.S.Air Force munitions handlers wait as an Air Force tractor pulls a flatbed trailer of M82 bombs into in a bomb assembly area. The team of Air Force and Thai workers manuallu unscrew caps from noses ot the bombs while a Thai worker uses a type of lug wrench on the fuze well of the bomb bodies. The scene is repeated in a re-take. The Air Force truck driver speaks on a mobile telephone. Closeup of Thai workers prying caps from rear of the bombs and inserting fuzes.
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