VIP's arrive at speaker's stand during transfer of F-104 planes to the Chinese Nationalist Air Force at Kuang Kuan Air Base in Taiwan. Control tower, the U.S. flag and the Chinese Nationalist flag in the background. Military and civilian cameramen click photos. Major General Leander La Chance Doan, Chief of MAAG, addresses from speaker's platform. Interpreter at his side and other dignitaries in the background. Two Chinese Nationalist squadrons stand before the speaker's platform. Chinese Nationalist F-104B's in the background. Major General Doan and interpreter. Major General Fred M Dean, Commander 13th Air Task Force and Chief, Air Section, MAAG, Taiwan and General Chen, Chief of Staff Chinese Air Force. Military and civilian cameramen take photos of VIP's on speaker's platform. General Chen addresses from speaker's platform.
View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
Aerial views of Munitions Storage area in U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. B-52 F planes can be seen parked in revetments at the base. Many stacks of bombs are seen in the Munitions Storage area.
Board of 'Ritz Jhule Building number 122' at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland. Secretory Talbott gives speech on stage. Air Force Personnel seated on ground watch the show in ENT Auditorium. Airmen take pictures and applaud. General LeMay gives a brief speech on stage. Arthur Godfrey speaks to air Force Personnel and entertains them by playing guitar. Jeanette Davis sings on stage. Colonel Bernt Balchen gives a brief speech. Troops in winter clothing exit the auditorium and head toward the Gymnasium.
Airmen refueling a KC-135A, of the 4258th Strategic Wing, at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Airman has some difficulty connecting refueling hose to the aircraft centerpoint refueling valve. After successfully connecting it, he uses the aircraft refueling panel to direct fuel to the appropriate tanks. Another airman operates a mobile pump unit connected to an underground fuel tank. Pilot (U.S. Air Force Captain Wells) approaches front of the aircraft, walks past auxiliary power unit cable, and begins preflight walk-around inspection. He is followed by crew chief.
A semi tractor truck drives into an open air munitions storage area at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Numerous bombs are seen stacked behind bumker walls, and a flatbed truck trailer loaded with bombs is parked nearby. The airman driving the truck backs it up to the loaded trailer and hooks it up to his truck. Closeup of him making the necessry connections and then moving the trailer onto his truck and driving away. Next, a truckload of bombs is seen unloaded from a tractor trailer truck.
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