Tonkin Gulf. Aircraft come in for landing. Down over deck, aircraft makes recovery. F-4J plane takes wave-off over deck. F-4J makes recovery.
United States soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry and 9th Infantry Division walk across a field with a few Viet Cong suspect. Soldiers sit. A boy stands before a soldier. He writes on a paper with identity card before him. A soldier clicks pictures. Soldiers question and check identification cards of the suspects. Viet Cong sits on ground. Soldier calls another Viet Cong and questions him. (Vietnam War period).
Blue shirt, flight deck crewmen seen under an A-4E. Pilot looking into cockpit of another A-4E.Plane captain (brown shirt) and an armorer (red shirt) under the plane. Catapult and arresting gear crew (green shirts) set up a catapult. Island of the carrier (Coral Sea,CVA-43) in background. Red shirt armorers crawling over an aircraft. Squadron maintenance (green shirts) work on nose radar of an F-4B. Pilot seen earlier, climbs into cockpit of his A-4E. Tractor backs A-3B down over deck. It is parked on side of a E-2A .
A-4E aircraft parked on flight deck of the USS Constellation (CVA-64). Plane captains walk along flight deck. A- 4Es parked in far background, framed by part of A-3B.Plane captain along port side of cockpit of A-4E. NK Tail code of Carrier Wing 14, seen on all aircraft. Green shirts stand looking up toward plane captain working on windshield of A-4E.Radar antennas rotating on the Island. A-4E parked on deck, tow-bar attached to nose wheel, water framed in background. Group of men, in left background, sunning themselves. A-4E parked on deck, island structure in left BG. Man standing alongside cockpit talking to plane captain seated in cockpit of A-4E. plane captain scrubbing down top inner section of starb'd wing. VA 55 Warhorses logo and USS Constellation painted on fuselage of plane. Man cleaning vertical stabilizer.View of ship's bridge. Men cleaning down vertical and horizontal stabilizers of A-4E. Man in far background cleaning port side of cockpit area as fourth man at right cleans starboard wing. Looking aft, from forward part of flight deck, island in left, shows empty flight deck and a lone yellow shirt seated on two wheel chocks.
Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) extinguishing of fire resulting from accidental igniting of flares below the flight deck. Sailors on sponson deck begin recovery and cleanup after extinguishing the fire. Water from fire hose is discharging overboard. Sailors begin retrieving fire hoses. View of fire-damaged areas. Sailors begin cleanup of hangar space beneath the flight deck. Above, cleanup begins. Sailors move bombs on wheeled cradles
Fire aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) from accident with flares. Latter stages of fire, with smoke still rising slightly on flight deck and from forward area starboard, below the flight deck. Sailors standing on flight deck with fire hoses laying all over the deck area. Man looks down the edge of the deck area. Firefighters donning Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (OBA) standing in the Sponson deck. They check each others equipment and prepare to enter the area of lingering fire. Smoke emerging from that area below the flight deck.
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