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.
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.
View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
United States Lieutenant General arrives in a staff car at Udorn Air Force base in Thailand. He visits photo flight lab, 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS) and communications and electronics building at the base.
American radio and television broadcaster Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey at Takhli Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A United States T-39 A aircraft arrives at the air base. Arthur Godfrey and others get off the plane. 335th Wing Commander and other officers greet Godfrey dressed in Air force uniform. Godfrey shakes hands with officers and talks to them. He gets into a staff car and drives away.
United States Lieutenant General boards a VC 54 plane after visiting Udorn Air Force base in Thailand. Plane taxis along the runway. 2nd Lieutenant Craft talks to a Lieutenant Colonel as a photographer takes pictures.
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