United States AC-119K stinger at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. AC-119K stinger parked at air base. Gatling guns and mini guns protrude from side of stinger. Crew of 18th Special Operations Squadron work on one engine of stinger.
U.S. Airman enters a nearly completed billet at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. USAF truck parked in front of the billet. Sign board on a building reads 'Paint Shop'. Airman walks. Incomplete billet and a backhoe loader in background. Airman cuts signs from card board . Airmen work at a nearly completed billet. Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot. (Vietnam War period).
Airman fuels a USAF truck at POL depot in 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Yellow colored tanker in background. USAF transport trucks parked near carpenter shop and lumbar yard. Stacks of wooden planks and blocks at the lumbar yard. Inflatable storage facility. Colonel John B Rose Jr observes airmen at work. (Vietnam War period).
View of the dining hall at 819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Airmen pass by the dining hall building. Garbage cans at backside of the dining hall building. Airmen dump leftover food and waste in the garbage cans. Personnel leave dining hall and clean mess kits. (Vietnam War period).
United States AC-119K Stinger aircraft at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Stinger in revetment. Ground crewman signals. It turns to right, taxis and takes off. Tail light blinks.
Convoy of Japanese supply ships in the Southwest Pacific during World War 2. Mysteriously, two explode. One sinks and one is left burning. Narrator describes similar losses of Japanese cargo vessels and Japanese reports attributing the losses to new superior American aircraft. View of Japanese Military High Command buildings in Tokyo, Japan. An Imperial Japanese Navy Night Fighter (QHAFMFA6) seen taking off. Japanese admiral boards warship to plan Imperial Navy strategy and tactics. Attacking aircraft is shown as a U.S. Navy PBY Catalina Flying Boat. Several views of Catalina flying boats in flight, painted black for night flying (called "Black Cats"). Aerial view of islands with small harbors where a PBY can hide during daylight. Base personnel gather at a catalina base awaiting an overdue returning PBY. She appears and buzzes base to announce successful mission. The PBY then lands in nearby harbor, taxis toward shore and is met by sailors in boats who attach a tow line to winch the PBY ashore, tail first. Squadron Commander meets the plane as the crew disembarks. Commodore Thomas S. Combs, Commander Aircraft 7th Fleet, arrives by jeep with Group Commander, Captain Peck. Crew gives quick accounting of mission. Corpsmen take wounded combat cameraman from the PBY on a stretcher. Tow pulls the PBY to area of ramp for servicing and repairs. Maintenance personnel note crew report of problems and begin corrective actions. They count 8 bullet holes in starboard wing.They find hole in fuselage from shrapnel that wounded the cameraman, and repair it. They repair a gas tank leak and refuel the PBY. View of 525lb and 1000lb bombs in Squadron dump. Armorers assemble belts of 50cal machine gun ammunition.They rearm the PBY with bombs under one wing and a torpedo under the other, and machine gun ammunition. They remove two black cats (animals) from inside the airplane. PBY crew plays water polo with a coconut. View of officer's quarters. Pilots prepare for next mission and go to intelligence briefing
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