Swift boats,P.C.F Division 101 in An Thoi,Republic of Vietnam. Swift boats secured and tied up to the causeway during sunrise. Surf pounding in on beach in the foreground. Officer and enlisted man approach their Swift Boat. American flag flies from a Swift Boat. Starboard side of Swift Boat 10. Man on forecastle pulls up the anchor by hand and sets it down on forecastle. Man on deck of boat tosses a line to a man on another boat as they are secured together. Hose brought over from one of the other Swift Boats to replenish the fresh water supply. Three men on the fantail as the boat rocks back and forth. Hose over the lifeline. Man bends over lifeline and uncouples the hose.
Swift Boats, PCF Division 101 in An Thoi, Republic of Vietnam. L. L. Ellis, BM2 (Boatswain's Mate Second Class) and P. H. Harp, EN2 (Engineman Second Class) work on a signal light filter. Harp saws the signal light filter. He gets up and walks away when the job is completed. Men work on a causeway next to the Swift Boats. J. H. Rhodes, GM3 (Gunners Mate Third Class) puts range charts on a mortar locker. The locker is opened and mortars are seen in the mortar box. Range charts are seen on the inner part of the mortar locker. Swift Boat 12 tied up to the causeway. Stores are brought aboard by men in the background. A man comes aboard Swift Boat 12 with a box of bread and a 5 gallon tin. An American flag on the deck of the boat. Buildings on the beach in the background. A large sack of sugar.
Views of aircraft operating at Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Saigon, in the period of Operation Market Time. A yellow Follow-Me vehicle is moving along a taxiway. Parked behind it are three U.S. Air Force EC-121D "Big Eye Task Force" aircraft from the 552nd Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing. (Aircraft from that unit rotated on 90-day temporary duty assignments, from their home base at McClelland AFB, California.) A number of C-123s and C-47s can be seen parked on the flight line in the background. A USAF B-57B aircraft taxis along the taxiway (where the Follow-Me vehicle had led). Next, a C-123 taxis on that taxiway, in the opposite direction. An O-1E Bird Dog observation plane taxis past the noses of the EC-121Ds as a U.S. Army UH-1E Iroquois helicopter flies overhead and lands behind them. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider with Tail Code Z, taxis past the camera, followed by another with Tail Code V. In background, another UH-1E helicopter lands and an ambulance takes wounded away. It is followed by yet another one, also met by ambulance. A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H aircraft of Patrol Squadron Four (Tail Code YD) taxis fairly close to the camera.
A group of U.S. soldiers stands next to MEDEVAC helicopter caring for a wounded man on stretcher. Wounded man moved into MEDEVAC with glucose bottle held by another man. Another wounded man is brought to side of helicopter and taken aboard helicopter. Pilot climbs into cockpit. Helicopter takes off from field at Tan Son Entrance, other UH-1D helicopters in revetments on ground. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army troops in a jeep loaded with ammunition, passes it out to men on perimeter line. Soldiers in heavy sandbagged bunker. Jeep backs away with boxes of ammunition on hood. Small armored vehicle disabled. Lookout tower at R6x truck in the background. Few men walk around perimeter of Tan Son Entrance. Wounded man carried on stretcher to side of MEDEVAC helicopter at Tan Son Entrance. Wounded man removed from ambulance. UH-46D helicopter hovers over field in the far background. MEDEVAC takes off. Ambulance passes in the foreground. UH-1B helicopter comes for landing. Helicopters in revetments. Man holds fuel nozzle during refueling of helicopter. He removes nozzle from tank of UH-1B and replaces cap. Men carry supplies to MEDEVAC. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. trooper searches a suspected Vietcong at side of large quonset hut. Two troopers guard the third trooper searching suspected Vietcong. Suspected Vietcong moved off by troopers. Suspect placed in jeep. Suspect in jeep with hands held behind head, man at the back of jeep covers him. Jeep pulls away and passes many supplies at Tan Son Entrance Air Force Base. Jeep stopped at curb. Sentry guards suspect. Suspect stands alongside building. Officers come out of doorway in the background, including a Vietnamese officer. Sentry speaks with U.S. official. Vietnamese officer checks suspect. Suspect lead away by group of officials. (Vietnam War period).
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