B-52D strategic bombers, converted to carry conventional munitions, in Operation Arc Light, at U-Tapao during Vietnam War. Numerous U.S. Air Force B-52D bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are parked in concrete revetments at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. A single B-52 begins to taxi out of its parking place. As it turns toward the camera, sunlight glints off its windshield. It taxis slowly between the other parked aircraft. Scene shifts to a B-52 moving slowly along a taxiway towards the active runway, where two other B-52s are holding short. Low mountains dominate the background. Next, the taxiing B-52 continues along, behind only one other holding short of the active runway. (These three B-52s are likely leaving on a 3-aircraft Arc Light mission over Vietnam.) View of another B-52 taxiing past one parked in a revetment, while another B-52 departs on a long takeoff role along the active runway, in the background. Camera focuses on a B-52 taking off and becoming airborne.
1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. Smoke rising from the ground. UH-1Ds helicopters flying in the air. 19 April 1968.
Long line of Vietnamese on way to newly discovered mass grave. People dig and uncover bodies which show signs of torture. Locals try to identify bodies of dead. Second mass grave uncovered. People dig out body parts of dead. Body parts stored in bags. Third mass burial uncovered. Local authorities meeting. Assembly point for hundreds of coffins. Incense burning. Mourners at coffins. Coffin is opened and woman looks at the remains. Flowers and incense burns on coffins. Buddhist ceremonies at shrine hall. Coffins prepared for procession. Women grieve. Funeral procession moves which extends for miles. White coolie hats worn by mourners. Mourning and shrine at cemetery. Civilians and military mourners at cemetery. Reburial of bodies (Vietnam War period).
Communists, U.S. soldiers and French officers in Haiphong, Vietnam. Civilian pointing to a sign on post. Communists putting up a sign on a building. Children in street and a shop selling communist flags in the background. Across large a field toward Red troops marching in distance in front of a building. Communist flags on a building. Two men and a child read signs on a building. People and vehicles on a street. French officers talk on a street. Truck in motion. MPs (Military Police) cross a street and vehicles in the background. Miniature American, French and Chinese flags on a jeep. MP barricade across a road. Civilian sitting on curb. Long line of cars. MPs standing on a street.
A U.S. Marine Corps RF-4B Phantom on ground roll, towing its open drag chute after landing. Another RF-4B Phantom takes off. An F-8E Crusader lands. Another F-8E lands and rolls out to end of runway. An A-6A Intruder on long ground roll after landing. Two F-8E Crusaders take off in succession. (Vietnam War period).
Construction of a runway at theNha Trang Airfield in Vietnam. A crane high up on hillside with scoop, loading a dump truck with rocks at a quarry. The load of rock is dumped into dump truck, crane swings around. A truck dumps asphalt into a spreader at the runway site. The spreader spreads the asphalt. A Vietnamese worker moves along with the truck. The spreader spreads a layer of asphalt. A compactor and steam roller compact the freshly laid asphalt. Vietnamese workers use long rake-like tools to smooth out rough areas on the leveled asphalt. A spreader spreading asphalt. The dump truck pulls away to pick up another load of asphalt, spreader comes to a stop. Asphalt runway being compacted by compactors. Other equipment on the right. A mountain range in the background.
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