Chocks being pulled from aircraft AC-47 gear at Bien Hoa Air Vase, Vietnam. Crew Members board camouflaged AC-47 late in evening. Ground crewman gives hand signals for engine start. AC-47 parked and No 1 engine starts. AC-47 taxies out of flight line. AC-47 takes off from runway.
Views of aircraft operating at Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon, in the period of Operation Market Time. A yellow Follow-Me vehicle is moving along a taxiway. Parked behind it are three U.S. Air Force EC-121D "Big Eye Task Force" aircraft from the 552nd Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing. (Aircraft from that unit rotated on 90-day temporary duty assignments, from their home base at McClelland AFB, California.) A number of C-123s and C-47s can be seen parked on the flight line in the background. A USAF B-57B aircraft taxis along the taxiway (where the Follow-Me vehicle had led). Next, a C-123 taxis on that taxiway, in the opposite direction. An O-1E Bird Dog observation plane taxis past the noses of the EC-121Ds as a U.S. Army UH-1E Iroquois helicopter flies overhead and lands behind them. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider with Tail Code Z, taxis past the camera, followed by another with Tail Code V. In background, another UH-1E helicopter lands and an ambulance takes wounded away. It is followed by yet another one, also met by ambulance. A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft of Patrol Squadron Four (Tail Code YD) taxis fairly close to the camera.
United States MEDCAP team treats patients at Tan Tru in South Vietnam. United States medics treat the leg of a boy. Medic gives slip and talks to her. Medic dresses the back of the boy's knee. A Vietnamese woman sits with a child. Medic gives medicine to her. Medic dresses a boy's leg. Medic checks eye sight of an old Vietnamese man. A boy watches. Medic treats shoulder back of the boy. An old woman sits for the treatment. A woman and a child take medicines. Medic treats a boy's ear.
United States Marine Corps prepares soup in kettle, over open fire in front of bunker at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Marines ladle soup from the kettle into cups and drink it. Views of the American flag fluttering on top of sandbags. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Airmen service an F-100D Super Sabre jet of the 355th TFS (Tactical Fighter Squadron) in Vietnam. They load 20mm belted ammunition for the plane's M39 cannons. Ground crewman closes and buttons up a hatch when they finish. (Vietnam War period).
The Battle of Khe Sanh in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Khe Sanh Combat Base and airstrip. Container Delivery System bundles are dropped from United States Marine Corps Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft. An aircraft makes a rocket fire pass. Marines dig a trench. United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft and Douglas A-1 Skyraider aircraft drop napalm bombs.