M Kadrlik taking meter readings for generator in one of ship's spaces aboard USS Enterprise in Gulf of Tonkin, Yankee Station. Entries are made on log sheet on small desk. Chief is standing before. Chief's hand shown moving dial for checking the cylinder head temperature. Dial on panel of air pressure gauze. One dial between two others in lower position on panel. Large dial for lubricant oil from engine. Temperature of lubricant oil from engine. Chief's face as he checks gauzes. Chief writes down information. Chief taking meter readings for emergency generator.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 2-5. 1964. USS Turner Joy underway at sea. Lookout scanning the horizon, with his binoculars, sending a report over phone, as he points with his right hand, after putting down the binoculars; he again raises the binoculars, scans the horizon. He sends a report over a phone. Interior of the destroyer, with crew members monitoring tracking equipment.One stands near them speaking into a phone. Flashes from guns firing from the fantail of the ship at night.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Turner Joy (DD- 951) at sea. A signalman sends a message through a signal light aboard the destroyer.. He sends up a hoist of signal flags from a flag bag.
USS Forrestal (CV-59) in Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. Crew cleaning up after massive fire aboard, triggered by malfunctioning Zuni rocket. Sailors walk among ruins scattered all over the flight deck area. Men with forklifts clear the debris, pushing it off the deck and into the sea. A Destroyer (DD) and a supply ship off the starboard beam. Various views of forklifts pushing the debris of burned aircrafts. Men assist with pushing a piece of landing gear assembly overboard. View of the aft starboard with massive destruction, twisted metal, charred aircraft parts, and crew members surveying the damage. Group of sailors carrying a body bag.
Reconstruction of activities that took place aboard USS Ticonderoga in the Gulf of Tonkin. A gun director training. A radar dish situated on the top of the gun director. USS Ticonderoga in the sea. Smoke flares in water. A helicopter recovers Lieutenant Junior Grade (jg) Albert J. Showers, VA-56 pilot of A-4A. A U.S. Navy SH-3A helicopter flies over the water and lowers a sling to Lt. jg Showers in water. Lt. jg Showers in a one man raft. The SH-3A hovers and then hoists Lt. jg Showers out of water. A white float, part of a pod from the A-4A aircraft porpoise in water. Roger D. McKeithan scans the horizon with his binocular. L. C. Alexander looks through binocular and talks over his phones then again looks through the binoculars. Lt. jg P.D. Corsett, training gun director, holds the control handles.
USS Pollux (AKS-4) underway in Gulf of Tonkin near Yankee Station. Bow of USS Constellation (CVA-64). Many aircraft on the flight deck. USS Pollux approached on the port side by USS Constellation. Aircraft parked on flight deck. Men in red shirt on deck. Line gun in the aiming position. Stern of USS Pollux with stores on deck for unrep operation (underway replenishment). Men move on the deck. Signal paddle man keeps his paddle in circular motion. Wire passes through a steel sheave attached overhead on board USS Constellation. Stores come over on high line. Men on deck edge elevator. Cargo net of stores lowered. Men pull the cargo net back. The stores moved into the hangar bay. Cargo net of stores leaves Pollux by high line. Men handle the supplies.
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