U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
Scenes of a countryside road in Israel. Donkey goes along the road with a luggage on its back. A boy pulls donkey's harness. Girls go along with donkeys. Truck rides on the road. Man talks and points towards plains along the road. Scene of road and donkeys standing on plains with hills in the background. Military police, with torch emblem on shoulder of their uniform shirts, converse with other men on the road.
Arab refugees in Israel. Families encamped on windy hillside. Women stand and children play. Tents in the background. Men carry children and stand. Children and woman sit beside belongings. Arab men talk. Donkeys stand in the background.