Construction activity under the auspices of the Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force 'Prime Beef' unit in Thailand. Workers at Korat Royal Thai Air Base mix cement in a cement mixer. The cement is poured into wheelbarrels. Cement is poured around pipes in a ditch. A worker floats and levels the cement surface with the back of a hoe. Another worker hammers an iron tie into the ground. Women wearing scarfs fill baskets with gravel. Baskets filled with gravel are piled up.
A clinic in Korat, Thailand, dealing with sexually transmitted disease. A Thai sign on the venereal disease clinic. Inside the clinic Thai nurses enter records in registers and check files as Thai women wait for their turn to get the check up done. A Thai doctor at a desk as he writes in files of girls and speaks to them. A graph indicating the occurrence of venereal diseases. A patient's chair and medical equipment in an examination room. Files of Thai girls at a desk. A sign reads 'VD control unit Korat'. A poster shows a baby born to a mother with VD. Gates of the clinic as people walk in and out of the gates. Girls enter the clinic building.
Launching of the "Myrina, " the largest tanker ship ever launched in the United Kingdom. The ship measures 1050 feet long and weighs 191thousand tons. She is seen going down the ways at Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her launching, a gust of wind catches her, before tug boats can assist, and she goes aground. But she is quickly pulled free and proceeds on her way.
366th Fighter Wing crew members at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. Crew members run from building towards F-4E Phantom II Aircraft parked in shelter. (Film includes several retakes of crews scrambling to alert aircraft.) Ground crew disconnects APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) from F-4E aircraft. Man gives hand signals. F-4E Phantom II Aircraft taxi out of shelter with other F-4E's parked on ground, in the background. Two F-4E Phantom II Aircraft take off from runway. (Note: An open mike in the control tower causes communications with aircraft, as well as personal conversations to be heard in background through entire film.)
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force F-100 in flight. Its SE tail code identifies it as belonging to the 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Tuy Hoa, Vietnam. This is a two-seater F-100F training aircraft employed as a fast Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Operation Commando Sabre. Its back seat is empty. Various views of the aircraft are shown, some with brilliant blue sky background. Background radio transmissions sound like a Navy or Marine GCA unit giving approach guidance to an aircraft. Beginning at TC: 01:50, an F-4E of the 366th Fighter Wing is seen, flying on the wing of the F-100. The flight of two continues in formation to the end of the film.
Italian premier Benito Mussolini mounts and rides a horse. Benito Mussolini in stand salutes Black Shirt gathering. The Avanguardisti Units (Boy Scouts) parade on street, likely the Via del Corso in Rome, Italy. Italian troops patrol in border area with skis in hand. Young army recruits are inspected. Officers examine and inspect Howitzer. Italian troops parade near the Roman Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome.
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