Major Mack at Ubon Air Base in Thailand during College Eye airborne radar surveillance mission. He talks about the 552nd Airborne Early Warning Control Wing Unit. Major Mack talks about maintaining continuous surveillance in North Vietnam. The Unit works with unity and professionalism.
Major Mack at Ubon Air Base in Thailand during College Eye airborne radar surveillance mission. He talks about the 552nd Airborne Early Warning Control Wing Unit. Major Mack talks about the strike force in North Vietnam. The Radar station transmits information of target heading any friendly areas. The unit also provides MIG warning, detect friendly aircraft and provide in flight refueling. He talks about the Unit providing rescue helicopters in case of any mishap.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Vietnam. Boat race during Festival of River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Vietnamese people watch the race from across the river. Long rowing boats in the river ready for race.
Film begins showing an army truck filled with Viet Minh soldiers driving on a street in Hanoi, Indochina (Vietnam), during the Battle of Hanoi in December 1946 (early in First Indochina War). Next, French soldiers wearing berets are seen in defensive positions at a port. Bursting bombs from Viet Minh attack raise black smoke in the background as civilians run away from the area, and Viet Minh troops rush forward taking up positions in Hanoi. Views of civilians hunkering down behind trees, under cars, and other means of protection, while plumes of black smoke rise in the near background. More scenes of civilian refugees fleeing. A man carrying two young children runs by a building with sign "Chi-Thành" (denoting the Duong Chi Thanh street area and neighborhood of Hanoi). A fire raging in the background. Viet Minh troops in defensive positions behind a wall. Activity along a tree-lined avenue. A police van with French and Vietnamese identification driving along a road with a Red Cross flag flying above it. Injured youth lying on a sidewalk with another teenage boy beside him. A nurse in white attire, directing men carrying a wounded person on a litter. Jeep in background with text sign "Trung Liet" on its hood (denoting the Hanoi neighborhood of Trung Liệt). A makeshift outdoor first aid station. Smoke from fires obscuring part of the scene.
Dejected, sad looking immigrant worker in slum or tenement one room flat. Still image of young Nguyen Sinh Cung, otherwise known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, and later as Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam, who lived and worked in New York City in second decade of 20th Century. New York harbor with ships and tug boats. Wide view of Statue of Liberty and then closer view with workers cleaning the face of Statue of Liberty. View of Rikers Island prison, exterior and interior of cell block. Men sitting and sleeping on park benches in Manhattan. An unkempt homeless person.
During the Vietnam War, airmen are seen lifting a Night Observation Device (NOD) or Starlite Scope, into an AC-130 Gunship. Closeup of airman's hand fastening cable connection and sleeve, to install it. Views of two airmen connecting additional cables as part of the installation. One of the airmen seated at the controls rotates the unit around and checks its vertical motions. He tightens two connections and then steps away from the unit.