RF-101C Voodoo aircraft landing at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. Aircraft get into flight line . United States Air Force personnel open reconnaissance film bay door of the Aircraft to unload films. An airman working on a document. F-4 (RF-4C) Phantom II aircraft are seen in the background on the flight line.
U.S. Air Force RF-4C Phantom II aircraft on flight line at Ubon Royal Thai Air Base. Crew Chief on ladder talking to pilot seated in cockpit. Group of of ground crewmen seen amongst several aircraft. Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) climb down from the RF-4C. Airmen inspect nose wheel well. Master Sergeant (E-7) talks with his ground crew personnel. Pilot fills out Form One. Ground crew continues with post-flight inspection.
French North African Colonial troops board a C-47 aircraft. Equipment loaded onto plane at Gia Lam Airfield in Hanoi. The troops seated inside the C-47 aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Numerous C-47 transport aircraft on the ground. General Salan converses with Deo-Van-Long, Chief of the Thai country. French Moroccan Colonial troops move off airfield, through village and towards an improvised camp. A C-47 takes off. Several oxen are seen on Laichau airfield. A radio operator seated alongside his equipment.
Two elephant statues seen in foreground. A new chapel under construction appears in the background at Udorn Thai Air Force Base. Thai workers climb up carrying sheets of lumber to build a roof. View of undeveloped barracks behind board of 556 CES Red Horse. The board states that this task is accomplished by Red Horse unit. Distant view of barracks from outside the air base.
View of corrugated steel revetments set up for explosives. A new Military Affiliate Radio System Station (MARS) with Centralized Command and Control Center is shown. U.S. air force officer getting into jeep and backing out.
Opening scenes show a live fire training area with no apparent activity. Suddenly, a puff of white smoke rises where a small bomb just struck. Scene shifts to an American advisor, seated on a rock outcropping above the target area. He releases orange smoke that billows downwind. On another hill an American advisor stands with several Laotian airmen. Closeup shows one Laotian communicating as a Forward Air Controller. Smoke from bomb strikes is seen below him at the target area. Next, several AT-28 aircraft are seen diving and releasing bombs that explode with white smoke on the ground. Scene shifts back to the American advisor and several Laotians where the Forward Air Controller trainee is communicating. Next, the American advisor ignites an orange flare and holds it aloft. But filming stops as some of the orange smoke begins to descend to where they are standing. Another bomb explodes with white smoke at the target area. The remainder of the film shows numerous views of a HH-53 helicopter flying over the target area.