Missile loading tests on the port battery aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, off Vietnam, in the South China Sea, during Vietnam War. Terrier missile on the launcher. Launcher swings around to attack position. Forward section of missile. Missile ready for launch. Blast doors open on the missile house. Terrier missile slides back. Practice missile comes out onto the rail, blast door closes and launcher swings around. Terrier missile slides back in the missile house. Missile launch arm in view. Terrier missile slides on the launcher. Launcher swings around.
U.S. Marines write personal messages on a bomb in Guam, United States. A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress parked. Two navy hospital vans approach the bomber plane. U.S. Marines get off the van. An airforce officer gives a chalk to the marines to write their personal messages on a bomb. The bombs are attached to the right wing of the bomber. A U.S. Marine writes 'Happy Birthday Charlie' on the bomb. Another marine writes his message on the bomb. The bomber aircraft taxis and takes off for bombing in South Vietnam. Contrails come out of the aircraft. The B-52 in flight. Marines and officers stand in a group and look at the bomber plane in flight. (Vietnam War period).
United States President Lyndon Johnson arrives in Guam for two-day top level strategy conferences. Crowds gathered at the Guam airport. Sign reads “Hafa Adi L.B.J Welcome to Guam Where America’s Day Begins”. President Johnson and wife Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson disembarks from the Air Force One (SAM 26000) aircraft. Dignitaries greet him at the Guam airport (355 Chalan Pasaheru B224-A, Tamuning, 96913, Guam). He arrives for the conferences with South Vietnam leaders. Crowd gathers at the airport to greet the President. Various South Vietnamese dignitaries welcome the President including Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky.
Anti-American rally in Madrid, Spain during the Vietnam War. View of the Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid Avda. de Séneca, 2 Ciudad Universitaria 28040 MADRID). Students make posters and leaflets during demonstration against U.S. action. A placard reads “NO al imperialism Yankee” (“No to Yankee imperialism”) They attend speeches. A Spanish college student speaks in front of protesters. Anti-war student activists burn an American Flag and protest on streets, against American action in the Vietnam War.
U.S. tanks, APCs and troops downhill from a vegetation clearing operation in Bein Hoa. Bulldozers and Rome plows removing vegetation. Work performed by the U.S. Army 27th Land Clearing Team of the 168th Engr. Bn, supporting the 2nd Bde, 1st Inf Div. (Vietnam War period).
Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. USS Forrestal (CV-59) following a massive fire due to electrical malfunction and detonation of a Zuni rocket. Ruins of damaged F-4B Phantoms and other aircraft scattered all over the deck area. Sailors appear exhausted. They survey damage and walk among ruins. Men with forklifts clear the debris from all over the flight deck area. Men walk through the remains and fire hoses spread all over the deck area. A sailor carries a fire axe.