Stacks of North Vietnamese ammunition from an ammunition cache seized by the 1st Air Cavalry Division. Sacks of rice stoerd in a Hootch near the weapons cache. A soldier stands near crates of ammunition. He moves away. Sacks of rice in the Hootch. Close view of sacks.
Helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army arrive to deposit soldiers in Cambodia and to airlift a seized NVA weapons cache. Close view of a rifle. Purple colored smoke rises from the LZ landing zone. Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army look as a UH-1D helicopter lands. Soldiers get off the helicopter. It takes off. A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army hovers over and prepares to land near the weapons cache.
Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army place crates of seized North Vietnamese ammunition on a cargo net in Cambodia, readying it for helicopter airlift. Soldiers near crates of ammunition. Soldiers pick up crates of ammunition and pile them nearby. Two soldiers on M-274 mechanical mule. Crates of ammunition on the mule. The mule driven towards the pile of crates. Soldiers unload the mule and place the crates on a cargo net.
Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army with a seized North Vietnamese Army weapons cache. They attach sling of cargo net to CH-47 helicopter. Purple colored smoke rises from the LZ (landing zone) as the soldiers signal to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army to land. The helicopter hovers in the sky before landing. A soldier stands near a cargo net containing crates of the captured ammunition. The soldier attaches the sling of the cargo net to the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and uplifts the cargo net.
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
Scenes from the Berlin Airlift. Views of transportation facilities shut down by the Soviets in June 1948. Glimpse of the city of Berlin, followed by views of empty railroad lines; barges idled in a canal; parked and silent trolley cars. Next, a U.S. Air Force Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft (military version of DC-4) is seen landing in Templehof aerodrome in Berlin. German children stand on a hill watching and waving at another C-54 on final approach to Templehof. A C-54 flying close to buildings on its final approach to the airport, followed by another landing near a line of trucks filled with goods brought in by the airlift. A military truck unloading supplies from C-54, tail number 42-72548, as another C-54 taxis up close behind it. Several C-54 airlift planes taxiing in a line on the Templehof ramp.
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