U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
A film about aerospace medical evacuation of wounded American soldiers during the Vietnam War. A United State Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft lands at an airport in Philippines to pick up wounded American soldiers and ferry them back home. View of medical air evacuation equipment tied down in the aircraft's cargo hold. Trailers pull up near the aircraft. Men unload cargo from the aircraft and put it onto the trailer. Trailers pull away from the airport. Airmen prepare the interior of the aircraft for medical air evacuation.. Seats being put up. Poles being erected. Oxygen masks and other medical equipment being set up aboard the airplane.
Aerial views of jungle in Vietnam. American F-100 aircraft strafing and bombing targets in jungle. General Purpose (GP) bombs are dropped over several targets in the dense jungle. Smoke rises as GP bomb bursts. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. aerial strikes against Vietcong targets in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of smoke rising from explosions in a jungle.
French Douglas A-26 Invader twin engine bombers hit Indochina (Vietnam). An A-26 taxis on an air strip. The bomber takes off. Men work on an aircraft. A pilot sits in the cockpit. 'BC-828' written on one bomber and "BC-831 on another. Aircraft in flight. Bombs are dropped. Explosions on the ground. The aircraft parked on the airstrip.
The U.S. aircrafts lands after the Vietnam Carrier Air Strike in South China Sea on the deck of USS Hancock CV-19, Pacific Ocean. U.S. A-1H Skyraider makes a recovery. Plane taxies forward, aircraft folds its wings. U.S. A-1H Skyraider lands. U.S. A-1H Skyraider on a fly back taking a wave off. U.S. A-1H Skyraider on the deck after landing. Damage to the side of U.S. A-1H Skyraider. A hole in its fuselage.
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