USS Oriskany (CVA-34) suffering from accidental fire as result of flares igniting aboard ship, while operating in South China Sea off Vietnam. Many sailors on flight deck holding hose lines. A few firefighters and their gear on deck. Smoke issuing from fire below flight deck. Fire extinguishing foam being pumped into the area of fire. Sailors, ankle deep in foam hold the hose lines. Below deck in the burning area, firefighters enter and leave while tethered to lines held by sailors.
U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante and F-4B Phantom II aircraft parked on port side of flight deck on an aircraft carrier underway in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Crewmen stand near the aircraft on the flight deck. RA-5C Vigilante taxis out from parking area.
Senator J William Fulbright in United States. Television interviewer asks Fulbright about Communism and China. He asks whether he equates them with Adolf Hitler. Fulbright denies saying China has a totally different history. He says that after Opium War Chinese have reason to hate west and people of west must try to rectify the wrong beliefs about them. He says that we (senators) give advice to the President about what a common man thinks and feel about President's decisions. Fulbright talks about Russian decisions in Cuban War and other wars.
Senator William J Fulbright in United States. Interviewer asks Fulbright about the decisions of United States. Fulbright replies that he perceives Russia to be danger and China be the eventual danger. Fulbright talks about communist conspiracies.
Accidental fire aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) from burning flare, while she was operation off the coast of Vietnam. Men from damage control party don breathing apparatus. A-4E type aircraft parked on flight deck. Men gather around a scorched A-4E aircraft. Control party holds fire hoses all over the deck area. Medics move several injured crew members on rolling stretchers.
Burning Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off South Vietnam. Fire resulted from accidental ignition of flares. Three officers in the cabin, one of them sitting on the table top, while other two are on chairs and are engaged in an informal conversation (on same reel of footage, taken before the fire). View as sailors rip material from ship's side to gain access to fire. Smoke billows from side of ship. Several sailors run from area of heavy smoke, to get breath of fresher air. Injured sailor carried on stretcher.