U.S. Air Force Air cargo terminal at Travis Air Force Base, California. High priority (Red Ball Express) cargo is loaded onto a Boeing 707 aircraft for delivery to Vietnam. Upon arrival it is sorted for immediate delivery. Computer room of the 14th Inventory Control Center, featuring reel-to-reel tape decks and Hollerith punch card equipment. Aerial views of numerous medical facilities of the Army Medical Service, in Vietnam. A UH-1 Huey medical evacuation helicopter lands and wounded soldiers, on stretchers, are placed aboard, and flown to medical facilities for treatment. Inside an Air Ambulance helicopter, a personnel hoist, upon which a stretcher can be placed, is lowered to the ground. Also shown, is a search and rescue "jungle penetrator" that facilitates rescue of a downed pilot or other person from dense jungle where landing is impossible. The pilot is shown attached to hoist connected to helicopter.
Dramatic aerial view of white phosphorus and napalm bombardment of huts among trees by U.S. A-1 Skyraider aircraft during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A blast caused due to a bomb in a region full of trees and a few huts of a village. Fire in huts among the trees. More areas with trees and thick black smoke rises from the area of blast. More huts in fire among the trees. Stacks of hay near the huts. The fire spreading to the nearby areas. Black smoke rising into the air as the bombing raid continues. Fire in hay stacks near huts. Several fields near the huts.
Bombardment of target areas by U.S. Air Force A-1E Skyraider aircraft in An Xuyen Province during the Vietnam War in Vietnam. A U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft in flight leaving trails in the sky. The aircraft in flight over a water body. Several trees on the side of the river. Clouds visible in the sky. The U.S. Air Force A-1E aircraft, piloted by Captain Geraghty, drops General-purpose bombs on jungle areas 2 miles North West Xom Mui in An Xuyen Province. Aerial view of several huts among the canopy of trees. White smoke rises and spreads from the bombed areas. General-purpose bombs dropped by the U.S. aircraft on target areas in the Province. View from the camera aircraft of another A-1E dropping white phosphorus and napalm bombs. (Note: The A-1E aircraft on this mission are believed to belong to the 1st Air Commando Squadron, operating out of Bien Hoa Air Base)
Aerial view from forward camera in an American A-1E aircraft on a mission in Vietnam. The aircraft dives toward a cluster of buildings in the jungle, where smoke is rising. It pulls up and climbs. It also dives on two other locations where several buildings can be seen quite close because of the plane's low altitude. These may be strafing runs. But gun camera is not in use and no evidence of firing is seen from the forward camera recording the flight. (Note: The A1E aircraft on this mission is believed to be from the 1st Air Commando Squadron, operating out of Bien Hoa Air Base.) (Vietnam War period).
Vietcong Tet Offensive underway in Saigon, Vietnam during Vietnam War. A burned out truck on a narrow street in Saigon. U.S. Army soldiers duck for cover behind the wrecked truck. Trees on either side of the street. A U.S. soldier who is badly burned and wounded is being treated by other soldiers on the street. He is placed on a stretcher and then into an ambulance for evacuation. Another wounded soldier is placed on a litter. American soldiers and military police at the roadside. They hold rifles.
A feature film about PBR (Patrol Boat River) at Binh Thuy Air Base, Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. A machine gunner aboard a PBR stands by his machine gun. The gun trained out over water. The PBR runs down a canal. The PBR underway in the wake of camera boats. The machine gun in the foreground. A U.S. Army UH-1B Seawolf helicopter in flight. A crewman in a helmet and a flak jacket. He smokes a cigarette on the inboard of the boat. He speaks into a communication microphone. A crewman stands by a machine gun on the stern of the boat. The gunner stands in the background. Hands of a man on a wheel. The gunner fires the machine gun. Viet Cong on shore area fire back. (Vietnam War period).