A United States Air Force HH-53 helicopter during rescue operations demo in Vietnam. The crew boards the helicopter. The blades of the helicopter are seen as it lifts off. A radar screen on the control panel in the cockpit of the helicopter. A cable being lowered to rescue a man during the demonstration rescue operation. The man being pulled up. A crew member pulls the rescued man into the helicopter. The helicopter in flight. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault using outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the war in Vietnam. (At first, the project used 10,000 pound World War II M121 bombs. In 1970, it switched to the 15,000 pound BLU-82/B bomb, also called a "Daisy Cutter".) View from another aircraft, of a C-130 aircraft in flight overhead. View inside the cargo compartment of the C-130 flying , with its rear cargo door open, above a layer of clouds. A parachute trails behind the aircraft, attached to a large pallet on which a BLU-82/B (Bomb Live Unit-82) is fastened. The load is released and the parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane. Scene reverts to the view of the C-130 from another aircraft. The parachute and bomb are seen falling from the C-130. Camera follows them as they fall through the cloud layer. Next, a huge ball of fire is seen in the jungle below. Dense gray smoke billows upward. Scene shifts to view from a helicopter flying closer to the ground, which is obscured by dense tree canopy below. View of the explosion site shows depression in the jungle canopy, but the helicopter doesn't get close enough to reveal more.
C-130 aircraft and crew, employed in Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault to drop outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the Vietnam War. Pilot seen in left seat at the controls of a C-130 aircraft in flight. Closeup of the navigator peering into a shielded radar scope, and making measurements on a chart with a pair of compasses. Camera pans over pilot to forward view out the cockpit window. Closeup of the pilot at the controls. Screen of a plan position indicator (PPI) radar images being painted by revolving scan on the scope. Closeup of the copilot in the right seat. Loadmaster in the cabin holding radar beacon.
Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Aerial view of cars parked out side the Pentagon. A road in the foreground. The Pentagon building and the surrounding area. The Potomac River and the Washington Monument in Washington DC, in the background.
Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, United States, across the Potomac River from Washington DC. An aerial view of the Pentagon. The Pentagon building and the surrounding area. The Potomac River in the foreground.
Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. A car pulls up outside the Pentagon and U.S. General Earl G. Wheeler gets off the car and enters the Pentagon. Officers enter a door with a sign over head that reads ' National Military Command Center '. They are seated around a table during a meeting. Three officers look at a map.
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