(Clip opens with a brief view of a "color girl" or "china girl" for color television calibration.) Military and commercial aircraft land and take off from Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. An F-4E Phantom takes off from the runway. A Volpar Beechcraft Model 18 takes off. A C-130A Hercules and an O-2A Skymaster land and taxi on the runway. OV-10A Bronco, T-39A Sabreliner and O-1E Bird Dog take off from the Da Nang Air Base runway. C-123K Provider taxis on landing.
Preflight and post flight activities at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Emergency vehicles in staging area. F-100D Super Sabre aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Munitions storage area with rocket pods and rocket storage trailers. A board reads 'Weapons Sect Hap's Hustlers' and 'Hilton 416 Weapons Hoggard's Humpers'. United States Air Force sentry patrols ramp. Vietnamese laborers work on construction project in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Paul McConnell visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in South Vietnam. General McConell, Commander of the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division Major General Garland and Vice Commander of Aerospace Defense Command Lieutenant General Royal N Baker disembark from T-39A aircraft. They are greeted by Commander of 12th Tactical Fighter Wing Colonel F White. The Officers depart in staff cars for base tour. (Vietnam War period).
United States Navy training film shows ground operations of Douglas F4D-1 Skyray, in the United States. Pilot operates controls seated in the cockpit. Tachometer shows the engine RPM (revolutions per Minute). Hot start of the aircraft. If the engine does not ignite in 20 seconds the the session will be aborted. Ground crew member checks the aircraft.
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.
Japan air Force gets United States F-86 Sabre fighter planes. United States and Japanese technicians assemble the aircraft. American pilot takes a class of Japanese pilots under training. Fleet of aircraft in flight with the Nipponese insignia on them.
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