A-4C aircraft makes a recovery on board UnitedStates Naval ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin after an air strike on North Vietnamese positions. Various other aircrafts F-8D,A-1H and A-1 G make a landing and taxi along the deck in evening. American flag flutters in the breeze as A-3B lands in the late evening.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Pilots in a ready room aboard the ship. They are being briefed by an officer. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Bowling, who is one of the pilots involved in air strike on North Vietnam. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Render Crayton, another pilot involved in the air strike, seated in the ready room during the briefing. Lieutenant Er and Weber also in the ready room during the briefing. The Commanding Officer of the Squadron stands before a map of Vietnam and briefs the pilots.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft parked on the flight deck of USS Ticonderoga. Other aircraft parked in the background. Bombs are loaded under the wings of the aircraft. Men of the ship's Marine Detachment, supervised by an Aviation Ordnanceman, hang the bombs on the wings. A gas crew fuels the wing pod on the aircraft. Hoses in the foreground. Men of the Marine Detachment push bomb carts over the flight deck, with bombs to be loaded aboard the aircraft.. They are monitored by Aviation Ordnancemen, AOC Fidel Cisneroz, AO3 Jim Freemon, and LTJG Dan Clark. Four pilots in flight gear, walk on the flight deck. Aviation ordnancemen, AOAN Carl Collier (viewers left) and AO3 Ron Colaw use a small bomb hoist to place a 1000 pound bomb under the carriage of the A-1H aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of events that occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Tonkin Gulf. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral R. B. Moore in an CIC (Combat Information Center) room aboard the ship. Moore in the CIC room along with other men. Moore with Chief of Staff Captain J. C. Daniels. They discuss. Moore and Daniels talk. (Vietnam War period).
Simulation of activities that took place in 2-5 August, 1964, during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Sailors man a 5 inch 54 gun mount. Men enter the hatch of the gun mount. Twin rapid fire. A three- inch gun being manned. Sailors don battle gear. 3 inches rapid fire twin mount being trained. A pointer on the twin 3 inches gun. Two crew members on the 3 inches gun. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Maddox underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Commander Ogier takes bearings on a pelorus. Commander Ogier and Lieutenant Commander D. M. Jackson talk on the wing of the bridge while in battle gear. Commander Ogier talks over a phone. (Vietnam War period).
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