Bomb handled aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. A-6A aircraft moves on the catapult. Snakeye bombs aboard A-6 aircraft. Plane Director gives hand signals. A-6A loaded with bombs on catapult. Man in green shirt. Another A-6A aircraft loaded with bombs on catapult. Aircraft catted off the deck. Men wearing yellow shirts. A-4C aircraft on catapult. Cockpit area of A-6A. Pilot in cockpit. Men dressed in blue and green shirts. A-4C aircraft on catapult track. Catapult officer gives launch signal. Plane launched. Men wearing yellow shirts and green shirts. A-4C aircraft loaded with Snakeye bombs in flight.
USS Forrestal (CV-59) in Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam after fire. Rubble, burned hulks of aircraft, and twisted metal visible, particularly on the aft starboard area. Fire hoses spread all over the deck. Fires extinguished, but men continue in assessing damage and beginning cleanup. Sailor with forklift clears the debris of damaged aircraft. Men look down different gaping holes caused by explosions of bombs and rockets on aircraft consumed in fire. Several large pits over the deck area and water drip down from these pits. A helmet lying on the deck. Crew and officers hunched over a crater in the deck.
Gulf of Tonkin,Vietnam. USS Forrestal (CV-59) following a massive fire due to electrical malfunction and detonation of a Zuni rocket. Ruins of damaged F-4B Phantoms and other aircraft scattered all over the deck area. Sailors appear exhausted. They survey damage and walk among ruins. Men with forklifts clear the debris from all over the flight deck area. Men walk through the remains and fire hoses spread all over the deck area. A sailor carries a fire axe.
Men in yellow helmet and life jacket gives hand signals as he looks towards USS Pollux (AKS-4) at Yankee Station in Gulf of Tonkin, during unrep (underway replenishment) of USS Constellation (CVA-64). Sea in the background. Supplies are lowered on elevator. Fork lift moves out on the elevator. It picks the load of supplies and move into hangar bay. Men work with nylon cargo nets. Cargo net supplies coming on high lines. Two crewmen on an upper deck. A man with his hands on control keeps the high line tension equal during replenishment. Cargo nets of supplies come. Men work on the elevator. Men handle supplies in the hangar bay.
Aircraft lined at the flight deck of USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Gulf of Tonkin. USS Constellation pulls from USS Pollux (AKS-4) following unrep (underway replenishment). C-1A type aircraft towed backwards over the flight deck by a tractor. Smoke comes from the smokestack of USS Constellation. E-2A aircraft parked. Two men walk on deck carrying spare parts and tire. Character drawings and remarks written on Zuni rocket pods under wing of A-4 Skyhawk airplane.
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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