A dozen South Vietnamese farmers walk side-by-side in a large rice paddy, spraying their crop. Outline map of Vietnam and environs is superimposed on the moving scene. Two farmers threshing crop by hand. Two farmers pounding rice with a foot operated wooden device. A steam shovel lifting mineral-bearing earth. Vietnamese workers using hand tools to loosen ore and push it down the side of a hill, where another is seen pushing a small rail car loaded with ore. A worker cutting a rubber tree on a plantation, to collect its natural latex. Latex being processed in a factory. Workers in a spinning facility and others weaving large rolls of cloth by machine.
United States Navy 7th Naval Fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) underway in the South China Sea. A United States Navy aircraft F-4B whizzing by over flight deck during catapult from USS Coral Sea. Catapult crew member runs onto flight deck with a shuttle cover. A United States Navy aircraft A-4B Skyhawk on catapult. An officer gives signal in the foreground. Aircraft catted out. Fuel hose unrolled from a reel in catwalk and onto the flight deck. A United States Navy aircraft F-8D Crusader takes a wave off. A United States Navy aircraft A-3B Skyhawk catches a wire and makes an arrested landing. Aircraft rolls to a stop. The wire is released and wings are folded.
United States Navy 7th Fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Crewmen in a fire room. Man secures the boiler. Man looks at gauges in fire room. A man enters and talks to another man in a fire room. Man looks at main control in the engine room. Log on a desk in the main control room. A man checks the log.
The U.S. Aircraft carrier, USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Band of Sailors practice together, playing brass instruments, including trumpets and trombones. Sailors use a winch to lower a bomb onto a dolly on the ship's deck. An aircraft being moved by a tug. Two United States Navy A-4C/A-4E Skyhawk aircraft lifted to flight deck level on deck edge elevator. Mechanics work on tail section of a United States Navy UH-2A Seasprite helicopter in hanger bay.
Operations aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Midway (CVA-41) in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Pilot in flight suit walks fromUnited States Navy aircraft C-1A Trader on the flight deck. Sailors unload sacks of mail and several wooden crates from the aircraft. A sailor walks along the deck with a mail bag on his shoulder and a box under his arm. C-1A catted from angle deck. Flight deck officer gives go signal to an A-1H Skyraider loaded with bombs.
United States Navy 7th Fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A United States Navy aircraft RF-8A Crusader catted from USS Coral Sea. A United States Navy aircraft A-4E Skyhawk catted from deck of the ship. A United States Navy aircraft A-3B Skywarrior takes off. Cameramen on deck. A United States Navy aircraft F-4B swishes on catapult.