American soldiers wearing parkas and with snow all around load parts of 75 mm Howitzer onto M-29, cargo carrier at Camp Hale in Colorado. They cover the pieces with tarpaulin and tie it down. Cargo carrier moves away as soldiers march behind it. (World War II period).
M-29 cargo carrier approaches American soldiers pushing a 75mm pack Howitzer at Camp Hale, Colorado. Soldiers disassemble the Howitzer and load it onto the carrier. The cargo carrier moves down the hill and soldiers follow it. Cargo carrier bogs down momentarily as two men push it. (World War II period).
Viet Cong rice stacked in burlap bags in Cuchi, South Vietnam. American soldiers load rice bags from a hiding place onto a M-113 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) during Operation Wahiawa. (Vietnam War period).
Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
U.S.Air Force munitions handlers wait as an Air Force tractor pulls a flatbed trailer of M82 bombs into in a bomb assembly area. The team of Air Force and Thai workers manuallu unscrew caps from noses ot the bombs while a Thai worker uses a type of lug wrench on the fuze well of the bomb bodies. The scene is repeated in a re-take. The Air Force truck driver speaks on a mobile telephone. Closeup of Thai workers prying caps from rear of the bombs and inserting fuzes.
Munition operations at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Closeup of U.S. Air Force munitions handlers and Thai assistants installing fuzes in bodies and noses of M82 bombs on a flat bed truck in a bomb assembly area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. When they finish the driver climbs into the truck cab. Closeup of writing on truck door reading: "U.S. Air Force, 67B 1362, For Oficial Use Only." It pulls out of the assembly bay. Closeup of driver speaking on mobile telephone in the truck, as he drives.
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