Explosions at the shore line from shelling by 5-inch guns of the USS Mansfield (DD-728) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. Smoke arises from shore. White phosphorus shells explode at the beach. Mountains in background .. Various views of shells striking beach area. Brief view from the bridge, of Mansfield's two forward twin 5-inch turrets turned to port and firing rounds. Numerous explosions along the shore.
USS Hanson (DD-832) underway at sea during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman wearing helmet and flak jacket looks through long glass. 5-inch guns fires. Firing from shore. Petty officer in helmet and flak jacket speaks. Crewman in helmet and flak jacket during General Quarter. Two officers on bridge talk. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, on bridge of USS Mansfield (DD-728). The Captain sits with a crew member in interior of bridge area. Men removing empty shell casings from deck of ship. A man touches end of a gun barrel and removes hand quickly because of heat from firing. Crewman put empty casings in cans. Crewman assemble shell cans on deck. Empty shell cases drop out from underneath of mount. Twin 5-inch of DD-728. Gun director radar on top of mount in operation. Part of a range finder seen.
Twin mount of USS Mansfield (DD-728) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. The ship underway at high speed. Its guns trained to port continuously fires. Gun barrels of 5-inch guns. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, moves away keeping one hand over his ear. Commander D P Nellis cups his hands over his mouth and hollers. Smoke is released as guns fire. USS Hanson underway at high speed, fires at shore continuously. Shells exploding in water. Smoke is released as guns fire from USS Mansfield. A boat on Mansfield secured in davits swings.
An officer in flak jacket looks through binoculars on USS Mansfield (DD-738) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. A man inside bridge talks on phone plotting some information. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, donning his flak jacket. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman uses a signal light to send a message to the USS Hanson (DD-832) in a distance. A second signalman looks through a telescope.
Opening scenes, photographed from the USS Mansfield (DD-728), shows a U.S. Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer bombarding the Vietnamese coast, during Operation Sea Dragon in the Vietnam War. Next, a sailor is seen looking through binoculars at the Mk 37 Director position above the bridge of the Mansfield. Closeup of the gun director. Next the Mansfield fires a salvo to port from one of her forward twin 8-inch guns. Smoke is seen above the shoreline. More views of the gun director punctuated by more salvos from the 8-inch guns. Closeup of gun barrels as they fire. Sailors on deck watching as smoke from firing drifts away. View forward from amidship, showing sailors looking over railing. A Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun (M2) dominates foreground, where it is affixed to the ship railing. More salvos are fired from the Mansfield's forward guns. Shells strike the shore area.
Mankind's earliest attempts at achieving heavier-than-air flight, and footage of early and historic flight and aircraft. Animated film clip showing imaginary rocket in flight. View from an airplane taking off with other aircraft and terminal buildings seen outside. A caption reading "We can fly." Views from airplane windows of scenes below, including a town, bodies of water, Alpine lodges, and snow-covered mountains. (Views are from a Ju52 passenger plane, the corrugated wings, of which are seen.) Some views are out of the small round port window of the airplane. Sequence shifts to film reenactment of Otto Lilienthal setting up one of his early ornithopter-like gliders (looks like early hang glider), and running downhill to launch it (circa 1895). A still photo of Lilienthal aloft in one of his gliders. View of German Karl Jatho's airplane, circa 1903. The American Wright brothers airplane being started and taking off. The Wright Flyer airplane in flight. The Voisin-Farman I airplane in flight. it was built by Frenchman Gabriel Voisin and flown by aviator Henri Farman in 1907. Danish inventor-engineer,Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer, in his airplane, 1906. Louis Bleriot inspects his airplane, circa 1909. A pilot (not Bleriot) sits cockpit of a Bleriot airplane with engine running. He taxis and takes off.A biplane built by Gabriel Voisin in flight, circa 1909. A light monoplane built by German aviator,Hans Grade,takes off, flies a while, and lands again,at an air show in 1909. The pilot crawls out of the airplane.Photograph of The Etrich Taube (AKA Rumpler Taube) monoplane,in flight. It was designed in 1909 by Igo Etrich of Austria-Hungary, and first flown in 1910.
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