United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. View of the starboard of the ship. A Merchant Ship underway in the foreground. The Merchant Ship moves in the opposite direction. The USS Intrepid (CVS-11) at sea. Aircraft parked on the ship. A channel buoy in the background.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) underway at a sea. The ship departed for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. View of the starboard of the ship. Aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier. A view of a red channel buoy. The port beam of the ship in view. The ship passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel area. Part of the tunnel area in the background. Port bow of the ship in view. Several small ships in the background. The ship passes a channel buoy. Part of the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel in the background.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. USS Intrepid underway at a sea. Aircraft parked on the aircraft carrier. A view of channel buoy. The ship passes between two channel buoys. View of the starboard quarter of the ship. A view of port bow. NOB piers in the far background. A Dock Landing Ship passes by.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVS-11) departs for Vietnam from NOB, Norva pier 12 of Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. USS Intrepid underway at a sea. Aircraft parked on the center portion of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. NOB piers and shoreline of Norfolk in far background. A view of the starboard quarter. The ship passes over the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel complex.
Views of civilian airlines and examples of how they and U.S. Air Force Reserve and National Guard aircraft augment the active U.S. military airlift Command capability in time of emergency. Civilian narrator speaks from inside the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next scene shows U.S. commercial airline passenger airplanes parked on a ramp. United Airlines, Delta Airlines, American Airlines, and Pan American aircraft are seen, some taxi, some parked, some taking off. A Boeing 727 jet taxis on the ramp. A Western Airlines 727 taxis behind a set of baggage carts being pulled by a tractor. The Narrator is discussing the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) to which most U.S. airlines belong, and which can be activated by the Secretary of Defense, for airlift support in the event of a national defense emergency. The Western 727 aircraft takes off. A TWA 727 aircraft takes off. U.S. military personnel and dependent women and children are seen descending a stairway from a commercial airliner contracted by the Department of Defense. Military supplies are seen being offloaded by U.S. Airmen, onto a traveling cargo carrier, from a Flying Tigers Boeing 707 aircraft. Refugees from Southeast Asia are gathered and processed at an airport and then board an American Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft. Refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia boarding an Overseas National Airways Boeing 747. An American Airlines 747 taking off. A glimpse of the narrator in MAC headquarters, at Scott Air Force Base, is followed by a mix of private and military aircraft on a parking ramp, including a, presumably privately owned, Japanese Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber (Kate) with Japanese markings. U.S.Air National Guard C-130 and C-123 aircraft are seen taxiing, and taking off from this civilian airfield.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
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