173rd Assault Helicopter Company (Robin Hoods) patrols in Lai Khe, south Vietnam. Soldiers stand near a Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" helicopter and discuss. Clouds low over the jungles. Assault helicopter in flight for a mission. Number of rockets fired one after the other at a target. Helicopters in air firing rockets to destroy the targets. Assault helicopters in formation. Smoke and flames rises from the rocket explosions. Change of scene back at a base, as U.S. Army soldiers load into a Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter. View of a smaller helicopter with nose art showing unit insignia. Pilots operate the controls inside the cockpit of one of the helicopters. Background wild track audio includes sounds of helicopter pilot communications with command. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army's Major General John Norton disembarks from an army UH-1D helicopter at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. He stands beside the helicopter and talks. He explains the importance of the Forward Air Controller and Artillery observers during the air-support operations. Another U-1D on ground in the background with U.S. troops aboard it. (Vietnam War period).
The mounting of assembled Laser-Guided Bombs on USAF F-4D fighter-bomberat Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Airmen attach laser unit (DCU-141/B) on the front of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs) mounted on USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II fighter-bomber. The airmen attach canard fins to the unit and insert tail fuse in the bomb.
Assembled laser-guided bombs mounted on to a fighter-bomber at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Airmen install laser sighting device on the canopy frame of USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II fighter-bomber cockpit. The airmen connect wires to the circuit. The pilot preflighting Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs) on the USAF F-4D aircraft. The slogan on the bomb reads : 'When You Care Enough To Send The Very Best'.
The assembly of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A sign reads : '50 Right Rear of Bldg'. Airmen attach laser adapter to the nose of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGB). The airmen attach the tab fin assembly to the tail section of bomb on pedestal.
Camera over shoulder of Captain W. J. Boyington plotting target on map in Da Nang Air Base. Maps covering most of the table. “8th Bomb” written on the right side of the table. The captain uses a pair of compasses to plot on a map. “Daddy” written on back of captain’s yellow cap. 8th Bomb Squadron emblem is seen in front of cap. Close up view of the captain’s face and hands while plotting Vietnam War mission in Da Nang. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel E. Farr II seated at table. Lieutenant Colonel Farr talking while checking his watch. United States Air Force 8th Bomb Squadron flight crews picking up flight equipment and departing building.
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