A USAF F-4C aircraft makes long low approach and landing, with use of drogue chute at Ubon Royal Thai Airbase, in Thailand. during the Vietnam War. Next a two-seater training version of CAC Sabre aircraft from 79 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, is seen taxing beside the active runway. Pilot is in front cockpit only. A U.S. Air Force Kaman HH-43F Huskie (K-600) helicopter is seen carrying cargo underneath in a sling. It is passed by a fire truck moving near the active runwy. Final scene shows a McDonald F-101 Voodoo aircraft landing.
Large audience of American Army soldiers is seated in hangar and spills outside, as well, to watch Sammy Davis Jr. who is performing as part of a USO tour entertaing troops during the Vietnam War. Glimpse of Davis onstage. A banner reading "156th Aviation Company" is displayed at back of stage. Views of troops in audience. Several take pictures. A woman singer onstage dressed in bright orange outfit. She finishes her song and leaves the stage as another woman enters, dressed in a long brightly colored dress. Several musicians play at rear of stage. The woman takes a microphone as troops watch and signal their approvals. View from rear of troops watching from outside. Various views of audience applauding interspersed with views of the woman singing onstage. A young Vietnamese girl in the audience. A Vietnamese officer sits with American officers in the audience, as the Americans clap rhythmically in cadence with the music being played and sung by the woman performer onstage.
USS Hanson (DD-832) underway at sea during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. An officer looks through binoculars. Signalman wearing helmet and flak jacket looks through long glass. 5-inch guns fires. Firing from shore. Petty officer in helmet and flak jacket speaks. Crewman in helmet and flak jacket during General Quarter. Two officers on bridge talk. Captain Brooks W Setzer, Commanding Officer, Destroyer Division 152, on bridge of USS Mansfield (DD-728). The Captain sits with a crew member in interior of bridge area. Men removing empty shell casings from deck of ship. A man touches end of a gun barrel and removes hand quickly because of heat from firing. Crewman put empty casings in cans. Crewman assemble shell cans on deck. Empty shell cases drop out from underneath of mount. Twin 5-inch of DD-728. Gun director radar on top of mount in operation. Part of a range finder seen.
Captured Viet Cong (VC) film shows VC applauding as families enter camp with food and supplies. VC families eat at long tables outdoors under cover of jungle. Vietnamese families carrying supplies walk across a clearing holding branches of foliage, as camouflage, over their heads, to avoid detection from the air. They discard the branches as they enter the jungle cover at the VC base camp, where they are greeted with applause. A mother looks approvingly at her VC son. (Vietnam War period).
A gas truck and crew at the edge of a runway in Vietnam. United States Marine Sergeant checks papers as a South Vietnamese stands before him. Marine hooks up a hose to gas truck and turns on the fuel pump. A crew member fills gas in helicopter as a long line of HUS-1 helicopters is seen on gas line. Helicopters taxi as they take off from the line. A man in tower talks to pilots of helicopters over a wireless.
Dignitaries watch a parade in Vietnam. Map of South East Asia and Thailand. A still picture of a fishing junk. Five men stand. A parade in progress as dignitaries look on . Float moves in the parade. People march in parade. Girls dressed in military uniforms march. Large group of girls dressed in long white skirts walk. Dignitaries look on from a stand. Float passes in parade. Young girls march in uniform.
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