Activities of sentry dogs and their handlers during training in Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. A board reads: 'Off Limits Sentry Dog Area Danger'. The same sentence is also written in other languages on the board. Airman washes utensils. Tent in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of sentry dogs and their handlers during training in Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. Airmen with dogs in a truck. They arrive at assigned guard post and patrolling area. They come out of the truck with the dogs. A helicopter in flight. A vehicle passes on the street. An airman gives hand signals to the dog. Airmen board the truck with the dogs. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of sentry dogs and their handlers during training in Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. Airmen arrive at the assigned guard post and the patrolling area with dogs on a truck. They come out of the truck. An airman with a dog walks in the field. He stops near a board. The board reads: 'Danger Radio Radiation'. The airman ties a leash around the neck of the soldier and walks with the dog. (Vietnam War period).
Opening scene shows a message being received on a teletype machine from the U.S. 3rd Air Division. Two Air Force officers are seen seated at desks. One is labeled "Ops-Plans." The on duty operations officer passes on the message to his staff where it goes through operation, operation planning, maintenance, ordinance and armament. Technicians preparing the guns and loading ordnance for the mission, on a B-52 aircraft. Air crew members ate seen assembled in their briefing room, Glimpse of the mission briefing officer at a podium. View of wristwatch as narrator speaks of navigators synchronizing their watches. A B-52 crew stepping from their crew bus as they arrive at their aircraft. As other crew member climb aboard the plane, their aircraft commander reviews the aircraft status, as reflected on its Form 781, with the aircraft crew chief. Crew members then begins a pre-flight walk-around inspection, starting with the landing gear and wheel wells. The last of the crew enter the aircraft via a bottom hatch, which a ground crewman then fastens from the outside. Inside, crew members are seen going through pre-flight check lists at their respective duty stations. Back at the Command Post, the duty controller receives the order via secure telephone, from 3rd Air Division headquarters, to execute the mission. He informs the Aircraft Commander and the B-52 starts its engines. View of throttles being pushed forward in the cockpit, as the aircraft begins takeoff. View from ground as the B-52 takes off and flies overhead. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in the cockpit wearing helmet and oxygen mask. Hand of radar observer is seen as he checks out his equipment. Aerial closeup of a B-52 in flight. View of radar observer placing the aircraft controls in so-called "Second Station," with the autopilot controlled by the bombing navigation computer. Inflight closeup of B-52 opening its bomb bay doors and starting to drop bombs. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in cockpit and of B-52 aircraft in flight, as narrator states they are returning to U-Tapao Airbase,or to Guam. The aircraft in the mission are seen landing back at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, where other B-52s are parked on the ramp. They taxi to their parking places and crew members board buses back to operations for a mission debriefing.
United States Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade during Vietnam War. Soldiers patrol through an area of damaged trees. Two soldiers examine an entrance hold at a tunnel. A soldier hands another soldier a white canister that the latter puts down into the hole. A soldier smokes a cigarette and looks at the leaves. U.S. Army Soldiers disassemble partially standing huts (which had been used by North Vietnamese Army NVA 2nd Regiment), pile up wood and straw of huts that they tore down, and set it on fire. A soldier operates a 16mm movie camera and films the event. Smoke rises from the pile of huts and materials set on fire.
United States Army soldiers of 196th Light Infantry Brigade, B Company, burn huts in a village vacated by NVA 2nd Regiment soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers set fire to huts and smoke and flames consume the huts. Soldiers stand inside a building heavily damaged by shell fire, and they knock down a concrete wall of the building to expose the inside. (Vietnam War period).
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