Viet Nam Air Force ( VNAF) C-47 Skytrains airlifting supplies from Tan Son Nhut Air Base to Rach Gia for flood relief in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A VNAF soldier talks to two U.S. Army officers in a jeep. One of them is Lieutenant Colonel Norris. Then the jeep drives away. VNAF flight officers in the background. A pilot boarding a VNAF C-47 aircraft. A Vietnamese airman giving signals to the pilot. The Vietnamese pilot in the cockpit. The engine starts and the C-47 taxis. C-47s lined up. VNAF C-47s taxi out. A VNAF C-47 is fueled, a door closes on the aircraft before it taxis out.
Activities aboard PBRs ( Patrol Boat River ) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. An air boat moves back into a base camp during the evening. The air boat underway. PBRs at a pier at the base camp. Crewmen stand near the boats. Bow view of a PBR making its approach. Port bow view of the PBR moving up to a river bank. Grasslands seen alongside the riverbank. A PBR heads out for a patrol.
U.S. Air Force Martin B-57 Canberra bomber flight crews with personal equipment leave the 8th Bomb Squadron building in Danang Air Base, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 8th Bomb Squadron emblem on display beside the door. Guard salutes to the crew as they pass by him at the entrance to the B-57 bomber aircraft ramp. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel E. Farr II and Captain W.J. Boyington walking to a Martin B-57B bomber parked in corrugated steel revetment. “U.S. Air Force” written on the nose of parked Martin B-57B bomber (0-21592). Lieutenant Colonel Farr stops and looks at flight log with crew chief as navigator boards aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Farr checking flight log with the crew chief. Extreme close-up view of the pilot's face. Lieutenant Colonel Farr and crew chief walking toward aircraft. The crew perform preflight inspection of tail and napalm tanks.
Shoppers at the E. J. Korvette store at 45th street in New York City. Santa Claus stands in front of the store, ringing a bell to raise money for the Volunteers of America. In the store, children play with toys under a sign reading 'Toyland.' Views of the store while riding down the escalator. A woman dressed in a fur coat shops in the housewares department. In Concord, California, college students pack gifts that are being sent to United States soldiers fighting war in Vietnam. View of entrance to Travis Air Force Base. The workers for Operation Christmas Star load gifts for the GIs into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane at Travis Air Force Base. Students watch as the plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial view of U.S. Army Americal Division base (also known as 23rd Infantry Division) at Chu Lai in Vietnam. Series of CH-47 Chinook helicopters are parked at the air base. Trucks drive on road. Truck turns away from the road. Aerial view of coast and the ocean. (Vietnam War period).
Shows a night time Vietcong rocket attack, just after midnight, July 15, 1967, on the United States Air Force flight line and barracks areas at the Da Nang Airbase in Vietnam. Heavy explosions and fires on the base. Fires started from secondary blasts by bombs and fuel. Aircraft destroyed included F-4 Phantom II's & C-130's. The U.S Marine Corps Fighter Squadron VMF (AW) 232, also based here, lost some of its F-8E Crusader aircraft in this attack. (Vietnam War period).
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