US Navy aircraft carrier ship USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin during Vietnam War period. Cockpit area of U.S. F-4B aircraft. The pilot climbs down from a ladder onto the deck. The craft's captain climbs up the ladder to the cockpit. F-4 aircraft taxis on the deck. Three F-4Bs parked in the background. An F-4B moves onto a catapult. A U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader taxis on the deck. Four aircraft in the background. The F-4B on the catapult, ready for launch. The aircraft carries a sidewinder. F-4Bs being catapulted using after burner. The RF-8A catapults to right. Men leave the area underneath the aircraft. A U.S. Navy A-4B Skyhawk aircraft takes off. A-4E Skyhawk being catapulted from the angled deck. An F-4B aircraft catapulted and a A-1H being catapulted. (Vietnam War period.)
F-4J plane ready for launch from angled deck, after-burners cut in as air operations go on aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Tonkin Gulf. Plane leaves. Lower after section of F-4J, after-burners cut in. F-4J launched from angled deck. A-7B plane and F-4J make recovery. A-7B makes recovery after a bombing mission. RA-5C plane makes recovery. Arresting wire is let go, plane begins taxiing. RA-5C makes recovery.
UH-46D helicopter comes in over flight deck with supplies as air operations go on aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Tonkin Gulf. The helicopter lowers the supplies and releases. Other supplies on deck. Helicopter appears to back away. Men move in towards supplies over flight deck. UH-46D comes in over flight deck with supplies hanging from slings. Supplies are set down and released. UH-46D over flight deck. Crewman seen with upper part of his body protruding out of forward window. Helicopter rises after release of supplies. UH-46D comes in over deck with large load hanging from sling. Supplies lowered, released and helicopter rises. UH-46D comes in over deck. Supplies on deck released by helicopter. Helicopter rises for departure after releasing supplies. UH-46D releasing supplies on flight deck and flying off; men and forklift move in to remove supplies.
A-4C aircraft makes a recovery on board UnitedStates Naval ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin after an air strike on North Vietnamese positions. Various other aircrafts F-8D,A-1H and A-1 G make a landing and taxi along the deck in evening. American flag flutters in the breeze as A-3B lands in the late evening.
A tactical jet fighter fires a missile at an obsolete jet target aircraft (F-80 or F-84). The missile strikes and the target aircraft bursts into flames and crashes into the ground with huge explosion and fire. An F-100 Supersaber fighter strafes ground targets. An F-105 climbing out. An F-100 dropping napalm, leaving huge explosion of flames. F-105 fires rockets that explode on railroad tank cars. Jet fighter launches missile that strikes and destroys railroad locomotive. F-100s straffing and firing rockets and missiles at various ground targets. F-105 drops cluster of bombs. F-100 and F-105 aircraft engaged in close support maneuvers with U.S. Army artillery and infantry units firing field pieces and machine guns and mortars.
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
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