U.S. soldiers get off from a truck at 199th Infantry Brigade base camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers carry barracks bags and board a 2 ½ ton military truck. A soldier carrying a barracks bag moves towards the truck. Other soldiers sit on barracks bags in the background. Military trucks en route to 199th Infantry Brigade base camp. Other vehicles move on the road. Trees and building in the foreground. U.S. soldiers look out from the trucks. The trucks enter the camp and the soldiers get off.
C-119 Flying Boxcars and Douglas B-26 Invader aircraft, all bearing French markings, take off from a runway in Indochina. Copilot is seen in cockpit of one C-119, with map on a clipboard. (Note, unconfirmed: Copilot appears to be a U.S. military pilot) French paratroops drop from a C-119 over Dien Bien Phu. View from inside a C-119 as pallets of supplies are dropped from the open rear cargo door. Views from inside a B-26 in formation with others. Pilot adjusts throttles. A bomb is dropped. In cabin of a C-119, crew launches a pallet through open rear cargo door. The pallet appears to containin a set of three large bombs. Views of bombs exploding on the ground.
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.
Film opens with view from left side of a U.S. Air Force truck moving in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The moving truck passes a team of Air Force munitions handlers off loading bombs from a flat bed truck, using a mobile crane. A crate of bombs has just been set on the ground. Next, the camera truck approaches an entrance gate of the facility, where an Air Force surveyor stands with a transit on a tripod. Several Thai persons stand in the shade of the entrance guard shack. One carries a camera. A guard is posted at the roadway. A sign atop the guard shack reads: "U-Tapao, 635 MMS, Munitions Storage Area." Closeup of the armed guard as he checks the camera truck and motions it to proceed. Scene changes showing a Thai truck carrying explosives, approaching to enter the Storage area. It is waved on by the armed sentry. Closeup of the sign at the Storage area entrance, shows logos of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Air Forces and the 13th Air Force. A U.S. Air Force tractor trailer truck, loaded with bombs, drives in an area of the facility containing racks of M117 General Purpose Bombs on low trailers in yellow steel shelters. Closeup of an Airman moving a bomb into a cradle that carries it up into the rack. An Air Force munitions handler rolling M117 bombs by their fins. Next, a munitions handling team is seen using a mobile crane to move a crate of bombs from a flat bed truck. The Team supervisor (a Staff Sergeant) spreaks into a walkie talkie radio during the operations.
Film opens showing an intermediate munitions handling facility near a seaport in Thailand. Trucks are lined up on the roadside, next to huge earthen berms. U.S. Airmen ride in the back of an open truck leaving the site, transporting crates of Mk 82 bombs to munitions storage facility at U-Tapao Royal Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai workers stand in a group, conversing, near a corrugated metal shelter at the side of the road, and watch as the truck disappears from view in the distance. Scene shifts to closeup of the U.S. Air Force truck driver in his cab, talking on a walkie talkie radio. As he talks, the truck passes large numbers of munitions stockpiled outdoors between earthen berms. View from the truck cab as it passes tractor trailer trucks and fork lifts operating in the area. Rearward view from the moving truck. View, from left side of the moving truck, shows red markers at the edge of each earthen revetment separating adjacent storage areas. Some such areas are empty. Next, the moving truck passes a mobile crane hooking up to bombs on the back of a flat bed truck. A team of Air Force munitions handlers is involved, including one moving bombs on a fork lift.
Former U.S. war correspondents in Normandy, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of France during World War II. Correspondents outside a cafe near Normandy as they prepare to leave a luncheon. Retired General J. Lawton Collins is escorted by a uniformed U.S. Army officer to a waiting car. View of the Normandy coastline from a moving car. American flag on the bonnet of a car as it drives along the road. Graves at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Wife of a correspondent walks amidst graves at the cemetery. Grave of Wesley J. Rubenstein with a Star of David Jewish headstone. An F-4E Phantom aircraft in flight overhead. American and French flags hoisted at the cemetery. Correspondents tour the cemetery. View of a plaque ad time capsule unveiled by the correspondents and presented that day. It says, "In memory of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the forces under his command, this sealed capsule containing news reports of the June 6, 1944 Normandy Landings is placed here - by the newsmen who were there. June 6, 1969." A man with a baby tied to his back. Correspondents speak during the ceremony. A photographer clicks pictures.
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