US Navy aircraft carrier ship USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Two signalmen sending up flags to hoist. A flag reads 'Commence Flight Operations'. The halyard is secured by flag bag. The second signalman attaches flags from the flag bag as the second hoist goes up.
USS aircraft carrier ship Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy UH-2B helicopter takes off from the flight deck of the ship. U.S. Boeing F-4B aircraft takes off from the angled deck of USS Constellation. Aircraft parked on the flight deck. U.S. Navy E-1B Tracer aircraft being catapulted from the angled deck. An F-4B aircraft takes off from angled deck of the ship. F-4Bs parked on the deck. (Vietnam War period.)
Aircraft carrier ship USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy A-4C Skyhawk aircraft lands at the flight deck. Another A-4C lands. A wire is released from a tail hook and the craft turns and taxis forward. A U.S. aircraft C-1A parked in the foreground. A pilot sits in the cockpit of an A-4C. A ladder alongside the cockpit. The A-4C turns up. Auxiliary Power Unit is connected to the right side. The A-4C taxis towards a blast fence. An A-4C is catapulted. Another A-4C is on the catapult. (Vietnam War period.)
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Raised canopy of a U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader aircraft. A pilot sits in the cockpit. A U.S. Navy A-4C Skyhawk aircraft taxis over the deck. A man holds a nose wheel tow car and guides the aircraft. The canopy of the aircraft is open. The A-4C aircraft taxis towards an elevator. Two A-4C s on the deck edge elevator. (Vietnam War period.)
Trooper in sandbag bunker. Military ambulance moves up roadway. An ambulance moves down past gatehouse and circles to left. Buildings in the background, part of Tan Son Entrance Base complex. Men stand near jeep and other men stand near stone wall in the background with rifles. Small ambulance moves along roadway, truck bars most of road. Troopers talk on road. Trooper with armored vest, jeep passes directing traffic. Circle of smoke in sky from bombing in the distant background. Men off-load ammunition from UH-1D helicopter. They stack it in truck in the background. Vietnamese handle ammunition and carry it off, some ammunition lowered into UH-1D. UH-1D takes off from revetment. Two parachute flares in night sky, rows of white lights. An explosion occurs in the far background. (Vietnam War period).
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) on fire in South China Sea, off South Vietnam. Brief glimpse of smoky passageway, below decks. A helicopter lands on the deck. Sailors holding fire hoses all over the deck. Smoke comes through deck cracks from fire below. Crew members walk about on the flight deck among parked aircraft. Smoke everywhere. A large elevator rises to the flight deck. Groups of sailors all about the flight deck.