Swift boats,P.C.F Division 101 in An Thoi,Republic of Vietnam. Swift boats secured and tied up to the causeway during sunrise. Surf pounding in on beach in the foreground. Officer and enlisted man approach their Swift Boat. American flag flies from a Swift Boat. Starboard side of Swift Boat 10. Man on forecastle pulls up the anchor by hand and sets it down on forecastle. Man on deck of boat tosses a line to a man on another boat as they are secured together. Hose brought over from one of the other Swift Boats to replenish the fresh water supply. Three men on the fantail as the boat rocks back and forth. Hose over the lifeline. Man bends over lifeline and uncouples the hose.
Swift Boats, PCF Division 101 in An Thoi, Republic of Vietnam. L. L. Ellis, BM2 (Boatswain's Mate Second Class) and P. H. Harp, EN2 (Engineman Second Class) work on a signal light filter. Harp saws the signal light filter. He gets up and walks away when the job is completed. Men work on a causeway next to the Swift Boats. J. H. Rhodes, GM3 (Gunners Mate Third Class) puts range charts on a mortar locker. The locker is opened and mortars are seen in the mortar box. Range charts are seen on the inner part of the mortar locker. Swift Boat 12 tied up to the causeway. Stores are brought aboard by men in the background. A man comes aboard Swift Boat 12 with a box of bread and a 5 gallon tin. An American flag on the deck of the boat. Buildings on the beach in the background. A large sack of sugar.
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.
Scenes of B-52D aircraft aircrew at stations during flight. Pilot and copilot of B-52 inside cockpit. View from cockpit during final approach and touchdown at U-Tapao Air Base during Vietnam War period.
Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aircraft aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Two A-7As aircraft parked on the carrier. Ordnance personnel wheeling bombs on bomb carts to the aircraft for loading aboard. Ordnance personnel load the bombs in the aircraft. A plane captain is in the cockpit of an A-7A aircraft. U.S. Navy F-4J Phantom parked at the carrier. Two UH-2B helicopters parked in the far background on the port side. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk parked in the lower foreground. U.S. Navy E-2A Hawkeye parked in the left foreground. An air officer looks through the window down over the flight deck while talking on a phone.
Operations of U.S. Navy A-7A Corsair 2 aboard USS Ranger underway in the South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A small group of personnel watches the recovery of an aircraft. An A-7A aircraft comes to a halt on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. The aircraft taxis on the flight deck. A tractor in the right foreground. An A-7A aircraft making a recovery, rolls to a stop. A wire is released from a tail hook. The aircraft taxis out. Ready bomb stowage area behind the island, a large amount of bombs secured to the bomb carts. Personnel working in the far background. Ordnance personnel working around the bomb fuse carts. An ordnance man holds a bomb fuse in his hand. Ready bomb stowage area behind the island. Ordnance personnel working in the background. Bombs and bomb fuses in the foreground. An ordnance man works with a hand full of safety wires attaching them to a fuse cart. The ordnance man wheels a fuse cart down the deck area. Personnel standing between the aircraft. The ordnance man wheels the cart down the deck toward the A-7A, stops at the A-7A. An ordnance man attaches two fuses to two separate bombs. A fuse being screwed on the nose of a bomb by the ordnance man. The ordnance man attaches the safety wire. A clip being put on the safety wire of the bomb. An ordnance man works with the safety wire on the bomb attached to the A-7A. United States Navy F-4J Phantom II and U.S. Navy A-6A Intruder in the background on the flight deck.