Bomb handled aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. Ordnance men wheel Snakeye bombs. RA-5A aircraft parked in the background. Auxiliary power unit (APU) parked by aircraft. Aviation Ordnance men walk on flight deck. Snakeye bombs wheeled. A-4C aircraft spotted by a tractor. Aviation Ordnance men wheel Snakeye bombs on a cart. Pylon contains a bomb. A bomb cart wheeled under wing. A large rod is screwed in nose of bomb. Snakeye bombs attached to bomb. Steel rod is then unscrewed. Aviation Ordnance men use tools in tightening nuts on bombs. A fuse is screwed. Missile men wheel bomb cart carrying Sidewinder Missiles. A-4C aircraft loaded with bombs. A-4C aircraft stand in rows on the deck.
Trooper in sandbag bunker. Military ambulance moves up roadway. An ambulance moves down past gatehouse and circles to left. Buildings in the background, part of Tan Son Entrance Base complex. Men stand near jeep and other men stand near stone wall in the background with rifles. Small ambulance moves along roadway, truck bars most of road. Troopers talk on road. Trooper with armored vest, jeep passes directing traffic. Circle of smoke in sky from bombing in the distant background. Men off-load ammunition from UH-1D helicopter. They stack it in truck in the background. Vietnamese handle ammunition and carry it off, some ammunition lowered into UH-1D. UH-1D takes off from revetment. Two parachute flares in night sky, rows of white lights. An explosion occurs in the far background. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft parked on the flight deck of USS Ticonderoga. Other aircraft parked in the background. Bombs are loaded under the wings of the aircraft. Men of the ship's Marine Detachment, supervised by an Aviation Ordnanceman, hang the bombs on the wings. A gas crew fuels the wing pod on the aircraft. Hoses in the foreground. Men of the Marine Detachment push bomb carts over the flight deck, with bombs to be loaded aboard the aircraft.. They are monitored by Aviation Ordnancemen, AOC Fidel Cisneroz, AO3 Jim Freemon, and LTJG Dan Clark. Four pilots in flight gear, walk on the flight deck. Aviation ordnancemen, AOAN Carl Collier (viewers left) and AO3 Ron Colaw use a small bomb hoist to place a 1000 pound bomb under the carriage of the A-1H aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
Simulation of activities that took place in 2-5 August, 1964, during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Sailors man a 5 inch 54 gun mount. Men enter the hatch of the gun mount. Twin rapid fire. A three- inch gun being manned. Sailors don battle gear. 3 inches rapid fire twin mount being trained. A pointer on the twin 3 inches gun. Two crew members on the 3 inches gun. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Maddox underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Commander Ogier takes bearings on a pelorus. Commander Ogier and Lieutenant Commander D. M. Jackson talk on the wing of the bridge while in battle gear. Commander Ogier talks over a phone. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of events that occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Tonkin Gulf. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral R. B. Moore in an CIC (Combat Information Center) room aboard the ship. Moore in the CIC room along with other men. Moore with Chief of Staff Captain J. C. Daniels. They discuss. Moore and Daniels talk. (Vietnam War period).