View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
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.
View from cab of Thai truck traveling toward U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai children watch as truck passes them standing their simple abodes. A sign identifies a construction project in progress. A religious temple is seen in background. Truck passes buildings in a town. Closeup of Thai driver at the wheel in truck cab. Several views of photographer slates are followed by roadside scenes, again. A sign advertises "Turtle Wax." View from side of road of trucks passing both ways.
Aerial views of Munitions Storage area in U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. B-52 F planes can be seen parked in revetments at the base. Many stacks of bombs are seen in the Munitions Storage area.
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.