Front entrance to Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A car entering the base as the guard salutes. F-4D Phantom Flight crew from the USAF 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing check in at the operations desk. They display the Black Sheep logo patch of the 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron on their flight suits. After signing in, they enter a briefing room where others are assembled. The Squadron Commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, briefs them on the planned "Crested Cap II" deployment route, to their NATO dual base, at Ramstein, Germany. He points out the flight path across the U.S. and across the Atlantic to Europe, on a map that also depicts places where refueling aircraft will be orbiting over the ocean. Views of the air crews putting on anti-exposure suits and equipment.
Activities of United States Marines in Hue, Vietnam during Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. United States Marines crawl behind a brick wall while under fire. The marines run and jump over the brick wall. They lie on the ground near the brick wall. A marine gives hand signals to other marines lying on the ground. The marines lying on a grassy area behind the brick wall rise and begin to run. The marines carry a wounded marine on their shoulders. A marine holding an M16 rifle stands and looks out of a window. The marines sit on the grassy area and take a break. A dead marine on a litter near them. A marine takes off a cloth cover from his head and waves it in air. A marine sits in a toy car. Other marines sitting near him laugh. Buildings in the background. The marines stand near a mechanical mule loaded with a 106mm recoiless rifle. They fire the 106mm recoiless rifle. Columns of smoke rise.
Interiors of building located at Kure Naval Base Arsenal, Honshu. Heavy destruction after air raid. Overhead crane with right end fallen down due to a near miss on the steel frame column which supported to crane rail. End of crane collapsed and rests on the floor. Fallen overhead crane in the background and unfinished gun barrels for a second class cruiser. A heavy traveling bridge crane to load and unload coal, received a direct hit in the middle section. The carriage and wheels stick up in mid-air.
A phonograph turntable tone arm with Stanton cartridge rotating on a vinyl record. Lit “ON AIR” pans to Abilene's KEAN-FM 105.1 DJ team Bobby and Bonnie, (possibly John Howard Blackwell and Linda Morgan, one of several Bobby and Bonnie teams.) Sylvia (a country pop singer)’s poster on the wall behind "Bobby" as he announces the arrival of the Rockwell B1-B bomber aircraft to Dyess Airforce Base. DJ "Bonnie" wearing headphones and in before a microphone notes that the radio station wants to send out a "big Texas welcome" to the families arriving at the base as part of the B1 Lancer program. Phonograph turntable tone arm and cartridge lowering to rotating record on as a song begins to play. View of the nose of a B-1 bomber. The B-1 tail from below. A parade crowd gathered on a street adorned with American flags watches cowgirls carrying flags while riding white horses in front of a fire truck. A dilapidated wooden windmill in front of an American flag. A couple wearing cream-colored cowboy hats. A United States Air Force mechanic, wearing a baseball cap, checks the engine of the B-1 bomber. View of the B-1B from under its right wing. A man, wearing a brown cowboy hat, grills meat on a barbecue grill. A man wearing a white cowboy hat and red apron stirs a stew in a pot. Men in cowboy hats slice meat and put hamburger patties on a grill. People enjoying an outdoor barbecue meal together. Cowboys carrying USA and Texas flags ride horses in a parade. United States B1-B bomber flies in the sky. Closeup of windmill spinning. Sunset view of a pumpjack in an oil well pumping. A B-1B bomber parked at sunset.
C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) are parked on the ramp at McClellan Air Force Base, California, surrounded by vehicles with various cargoes to be loaded. The fuselage of an F-5E Tiger II fighter jet, with wings folded beside it, is being loaded into one C-5. Glimpse of the loading process, from inside the C-5. Nose of an F-5 disappearing into the cargo compartment. (Narrator states that eight F-5s are loaded into this single C-5.) The loaded C-5 taking off toward the camera. View of a C-5 during in-flight refueling. View inside the cockpit, of pilots at the controls and of the refueling probe from the Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft ahead and above the C-5. A flight engineer at his control station. View of the refueling probe, from the tanker aircraft. View of the aerial refueling from another aircraft, in flight (unseen). Scene shifts to civilian narrator speaking at MAC Headquarters Command Center in Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Activities of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, as part of Project Discoverer. An airman stands fire guard, for an engine start (airplane not seen) on a ramp at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Airman seen pulling a chock from the wheels of a C-119J aircraft. Camera lense obscured by a human hand. View of a hangar door, partially open. Several airmen, carrying photographic equipment walk from the hangar. Pickup truck parked next to a C-119J of the 6593rd Squadron. A C-54 parked in background. Two Airmen with photographic equipment walk across a ramp toward parked C-119J aircraft of the 6593rd Test Squadron. A KC-135 tanker aircraft parked in background. One of the Airmen enters the first parked C-119J.
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