Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force F-100 in flight. Its SE tail code identifies it as belonging to the 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Tuy Hoa, Vietnam. This is a two-seater F-100F training aircraft employed as a fast Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Operation Commando Sabre. Its back seat is empty. Various views of the aircraft are shown, some with brilliant blue sky background. Background radio transmissions sound like a Navy or Marine GCA unit giving approach guidance to an aircraft. Beginning at TC: 01:50, an F-4E of the 366th Fighter Wing is seen, flying on the wing of the F-100. The flight of two continues in formation to the end of the film.
Soldiers of the 40th Signal Battalion on telephone pole work with telephone lines. Soldiers pull the telephone cable along roadside. Soldiers at pole, fix telephone lines. Soldiers on ground hold the line attached with pole. Few soldiers walk away from pole. (Vietnam War period).
Bombardment of target areas around Bien Hoa Province by U.S. Air Force aircraft during Vietnam War in Vietnam. Aerial view of A canal in view with trees and fields on either side, 6 miles Southwest of Bien Hoa Province in Vietnam. U.S. Air Force aircraft drops general-purpose bombs on Viet Cong concentration in the target areas as grey smoke rises. Several fields in view. Another General-purpose bomb blasts on a target area. Black smoke spreads in the air above the trees. Fields in an area.
U.S. Air Force aircraft bombs target areas around Bien Hoa in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The smoke from a napalm blast spreads above trees, 6 miles Southwest of Bien Hoa Province in Vietnam. A General-purpose bomb dropped by a U.S. Air Force aircraft blasts on a target area in the region. Black smoke rises into the air. Several napalm bombs dropped in several areas. Smoke rising from the bombed regions. Several fields in the area.
Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC) and United States Philippine Department Air Force aircraft at the PAAC's Batangas Airfield (Batangas City), prior to World War 2 in the Pacific. A group of rural Filipino boys wearing straw hats rough playing on the ground. Building with a sign reading 'Last Chance Bar, Batangas Officers Club'. Two United States Army officers, one dressed in white shorts, step from the club and pose, drinking beer from bottles. U.S. Seversky P-35 pursuit plane parked on the field along with several USAAC P-26 Peashooter airplanes. Two P-26s take off. Arriving passengers stand around a Sikorsky S-43 Baby Clipper amphibious plane, as their baggage is unloaded. The Baby Clipper starts engines and takes off. The passengers walk toward the airfield gate. Logo on the aircraft nose indicates that the S-43 is operated by the Iloilo-African Americans Air Express Co. (INAEC).
Richard Mackey enters the U.S. Air Force at 20 years old, measuring only 4 feet 7 inches. Air force recruits in San Antonio, Texas. Man tries to fit a coat on the small man. Airmen stand behind a counter and take their uniform issue at a supply depot. Richard is four feet and seven inches tall and 107 pounds. A man tries to fit an air force uniform on him. The recruits perform a drill and march, with Mackey trying to keep up. Mackey with a cigarette in his mouth, lighting the cigarette of another soldier.
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