USAF personnel eat in modular dining hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. Dining hall is filled with U.S. Airmen patrons, seated at tables during mealtime.Thai women in orange uniforms are busing the tables. Several U.S. Airmen stand holding trays in the serving line.They proceed through the line taking food items along the way. Dining hall workers serve them hot items from steam tables.A Thai woman fills glasses with ice and water.
U.S. Airmen in olive drab fatigues stand in serving line at modular dining hall in U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. A Thai woman replenishes food in the steam tables,as the airmen serve themselves. Airman take pie from desert offerings.In another view of dining hall, Dining hall workers serve hot dishes to an airman, who also picks up a drink. Four airmen sit together at a table.The dining hall is well appointed with decorative plants and tablecloths on the tables. More scenes of airmen going through the serving lines.
U.S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel and a Major, directing ground operations from control tower at U-Tapao Air Base. Two B-52s of the SAC 4258th Strategic Wing, taxi from the flight line. View of the main gate at the U-Tapao Air Base, Thailand.
Airmen refueling a KC-135A, of the 4258th Strategic Wing, at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Airman has some difficulty connecting refueling hose to the aircraft centerpoint refueling valve. After successfully connecting it, he uses the aircraft refueling panel to direct fuel to the appropriate tanks. Another airman operates a mobile pump unit connected to an underground fuel tank. Pilot (U.S. Air Force Captain Wells) approaches front of the aircraft, walks past auxiliary power unit cable, and begins preflight walk-around inspection. He is followed by crew chief.
Crew members seen at duty stations in a B-52. View from the cockpit as the B-52 approaches a KC-135 tanker aircraft in flight. Refueling boom of the tanker comes close to the B-52 windshield and then disappears from view above and behind. B-52 breaks off and pilot smiles.
U.S. Strategic Air Command B-52 crew members performing preflight checks at their stations aboard the aircraft, on the ground at Kadena Airbase, Okinawa, Japan. Navigator uses an E6-B circular slide rule computer to calculate flight parameters and checks his mission chart using a pair of compasses. Flight engineer goes through preflight checks at his panel.