View of Base Operation buildings at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Operations buildings of Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) with signs and unit insignias of following units: 90th TFS, 510th TFS, 531st TFS and 308th TFS. Air Force van arrives at the operation buildings. (Vietnam War period).
Air Base construction project by Vietnamese workers at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Vietnamese coat and wrap pipe. They weld pipes. Vietnamese works with machine. Mobile crane carries and brings the steel plates. They place section of steel plates on base of fuel tank under construction. Vietnamese attach nuts bolts on steel plates.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military Police and Security Police form a cordon taking one arm's distance and salute. Insignia of the U.S. Air Force 12th Tactical Fighter Wing. Aircraft ramp reads 'Welcome to Cam Ranh Bay'. Ramp being pushed out to the United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B. President Johnson wearing tan gabardine zipper jacket bearing the gold seal of the President and General William Wallace Momyer alighting. The President Shakes hands with the Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland. He talks to William C. Westmoreland. The President and Nguyen Cao Ky leave the air base in a car.
Activities of Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan of U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) who flies the same C-47 from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War that he had flown during World War II in Africa and Asia. The C-47D Skytrain transport plane parked in a revetment at Tuy Hoa Air Base. No. 1 engine of the aircraft starts up. A man signals to the pilot. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a runway and in flight over the air base.
The U.S. Army CV-2 Caribou aircraft at the Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers hold guns as they stand. The United States aircraft CV-2 lands. The aircraft taxis to the unloading area. Another aircraft stationed at the airbase. Vehicles parked on the air base. Another CV-2 lands and taxis at the air base.
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 463L loader rolls up to the a United States Ari Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules aircraft at the Chu Lai Air Base. Pallet, with drugged elephant wrapped in cargo net and secured with straps, being unloaded from the aircraft onto the loader. The loader being driven away. Soldiers walk on the air base. A United States Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53A Sea Stallion flies in toward the loader.. The aircraft flies away with elephant on the pallet, suspended underneath.
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