A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Traffic on a street in Saigon. Headquarters of Far East Joint Medical Regulating Office. Men at the office decide upon the hospital best equipped to treat a particular patient. An officer marks on a chart. Another officer speaks over a phone. A teletype strip. Officers gather at a briefing room at Scott air base in Illinois. An officer (General Howell M. Estes, Jr.) gives a presentation about the medical rescue undertaken by air ambulance crew. Officer inquires another officer about a burn patient. Officer also briefs about the weather factors that affect medical evacuation.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. At the Saigon airport wounded American soldiers on litters being loaded onto an aircraft to be sent to Clark Air Force Base hospital in Philippines. Dr. Louis Patterson, a noted chest surgeon, arrives at Clark Air Base. Aircraft takes off. Ambulances pull up at the airport in Philippines. Wounded being loaded onto an ambulance. Doctor talks to patients and examines them in the ambulance. Patients being unloaded from the ambulance. A wounded soldier in a car as it pulls away.
Vietnam Air Force and United States Air Force Air police stand for duty at main gate of Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Air Force van enters into the main gate. Horse cart and bicycles pass on a road. Jeeps driven out from the main gate. VNAF and USAF AP on duty at the main gate. (Vietnam War period).
Base Operation buildings and headquarters at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Flags of United States and South Vietnam near a building. Air Force personnel pass near around the building. Operations buildings with signs and unit insignias: Headquarter of 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, 416th Tactical fighter Squadron, Base Operations and control tower. Sign: 'Bien Hoa Base Operations Field Elevation 36 ft, Welcome 23rd VNAF Wing, USAF TAC FTR Wing'. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial views of a truck convoy in Vietnam. The runway as seen from cabin of O-1E aircraft during take off at the An Khe Base, of the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division, in Vietnam. O-1E pilot during flight. O-1E in low flight over jungle. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army's Major General John Norton stands beside an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He speaks on the success off their air strikes missions and says that they have demonstrated a successful use of close air support by deployment of various aircraft in Vietnam. Another UH-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).