USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, Commander 7th Fleet and staff sit around a table. They talk to each other. Vice Admiral Johnson stands in front of a wall map and points to various locations along the coast of Vietnam using a small stick.
Vietnamese Major General Minh addressing the crowd at turnover of Soc Trang base from U.S. Army to VNAF. Other VIP's listening including General Abrams and Genearal Clay. Secretary of Air Force, Robert C. Seamans speaking at the microphone. Reporters and cameramen seen. All VIP's in attention position during National anthem performed by VNAF Band. Dr. Seamans and other VIP's leaving. (Vietnam War period).
Navigator work on documents aboard aircraft AC-47. Viet Nam Air Force officer and crewman attach lanyard wires to parachute flares. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry and 9th Infantry Division walk across a field with a few Viet Cong suspect. Soldiers sit. A boy stands before a soldier. He writes on a paper with identity card before him. A soldier clicks pictures. Soldiers question and check identification cards of the suspects. Viet Cong sits on ground. Soldier calls another Viet Cong and questions him. (Vietnam War period).
Bien Hoa Air Base in Saigon. OH-6A helicopters seen through barbed wire. Soldiers on tank. Army vehicles pass on bridge. Smoke rises in the background. Dead Vietcong on bridge. Vietnamese look through rubble. Smoking rubble in area. (Vietnam War period).
Blue shirt, flight deck crewmen seen under an A-4E. Pilot looking into cockpit of another A-4E.Plane captain (brown shirt) and an armorer (red shirt) under the plane. Catapult and arresting gear crew (green shirts) set up a catapult. Island of the carrier (Coral Sea,CVA-43) in background. Red shirt armorers crawling over an aircraft. Squadron maintenance (green shirts) work on nose radar of an F-4B. Pilot seen earlier, climbs into cockpit of his A-4E. Tractor backs A-3B down over deck. It is parked on side of a E-2A .