View at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Boeing B-52D bomber taxiing towards active runway, before take off on an Arc Light mission during Vietnam war.
B-52D strategic bombers, converted to carry conventional munitions, in Operation Arc Light, at U-Tapao during Vietnam War. Numerous U.S. Air Force B-52D bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are parked in concrete revetments at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. A single B-52 begins to taxi out of its parking place. As it turns toward the camera, sunlight glints off its windshield. It taxis slowly between the other parked aircraft. Scene shifts to a B-52 moving slowly along a taxiway towards the active runway, where two other B-52s are holding short. Low mountains dominate the background. Next, the taxiing B-52 continues along, behind only one other holding short of the active runway. (These three B-52s are likely leaving on a 3-aircraft Arc Light mission over Vietnam.) View of another B-52 taxiing past one parked in a revetment, while another B-52 departs on a long takeoff role along the active runway, in the background. Camera focuses on a B-52 taking off and becoming airborne.
Distant views of three B-52 D planes taking off in succession, from U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base during Vietnam war. Views are from camera at side of runway. Takeoffs are made toward the camera that tracks the aircraft as they pass overhead and climb out.
Air Force tractor pulls a rack of bombs under the wing of a B-52 bomber and to the front of the aircraft, parked on a ramp at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, during the Vietnam war. Photograpner slate interrupts, followed by view of another tractor pulling several racks of bombs under and past the B-52. The train of bomb racks continues moving along the ramp toward other B-52s parked in revetments.
Film opens showing a blue crew bus moving on a ramp at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, during the Vietnam war. It stops near a B-52 bomber, and the crew members step from the bus. Some carry gear in A-3 bags. The crew members each begin their respective preflight inspections, as the aircraft commander looks over the aircraft's Form 1. Photographer slate is shown. Then the scene is retaken. The aircraft commander is seen looking over the bombs loaded on the aircraft.
Ships and boat moving in water. Crated Russian farm equipment on transport vehicles on road. Close view of propaganda pamphlets. Cuban children in a classroom are taught Russian language by teacher. View of children and guard wearing military uniform. Supplies unloaded by workers from cargo ship, 'Shirley Lykes'. Supplies as ransom for Fidel Castro's war prisoners. Refugees who are mostly relatives of prisoners boarding the ship. Wounded refugees are carried on litters. View of large number of wounded refugees. Refugees disembarking from 'Shirley Lykes' at USA.
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