Rough sea and strong winds blow due to a hurricane. Heavy surf washes over a pier and trees bow over in strong hurricane force winds. View of entrance sign at Keesler Air Force Base where weather forecasting and hurricane hunting operations done. Personnel of U.S. Air Force 920th Weather Reconnaissance Group seen receiving teletype information about a hurricane, and plotting hurricane position and course on paper. View of a WC-130 aircraft in flight on the hurricane hunting operation. Pilot and navigator seen on board as they approach and fly into the hurricane to gather data. The WC-130 seen again in clear skies returning to base.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and other officials on Midway Island during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force officer saluting. Honor guards and officers in charge in the background. President Nixon leaving a speaker's stand on an airfield. The President with a Commanding Officer and other officials walks past the officers in charge of honor guards. People gathered watching the President and the officials. The doorway to a terminal building in view. A sign above the doorway reads 'Aloha'. The President and the officials entering the terminal through the doorway. Civilians and other officers watching them. U.S. Navy personnel and the civilians gathering around the President in a fenced area. The President shaking hands and talking with the navy personnel and a few people in the crowd. An officer with a walkie talkie beside the fence. Various views of the President shaking hands with people in the crowd. The President walking away with the Commanding officer. Several navy personnel in white uniforms in the area. President Nixon talking with the flight stewardesses in blue uniforms. U.S. U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers standing behind the President. Other civilians in the area. U.S. Marines standing in formation in the background. One of the stewardesses and a few men taking pictures with cameras.
USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) in South East Asia during Vietnam War. Wash crew of Okinawa, wash and clean aircraft. Maintenance crew work on the aircraft and inspect the working of all systems. SAC crew load bombs on a forklift truck. The forklift truck carry bombs and load onto an equipment. A flat bed trailer truck carries bombs and drives towards the aircraft. An officer speaks on a radio device from check post. Personnel load bomb on Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft. The B-52 takes off.
A truck tractor slowly pulls a rack of M117 General Purpose Bombs, on a low trailer, to a munitions storage area in the U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The driver gets out and disconnects the trailer from the truck. Change of scene shows Thai workers cleaning inside the rear parts of M117 bombs sitting on their tail fins. They each wear hats or other headgear to protect from the sun. Closeup of one wearing turban style head protection. Closeup of bomb casing interior, as one of the Thai men works on it View of many bomb casings on their tail fins, lined up at a pickup point. A truck pulling bomb trailers pulls into place, near the line of bomb casings. Then another truck pulling a flat bed trailer filled with bombs pulls up at another driveway. Its driver gets out and walks away. Next, the line of bomb casings is seen sitting alone in the facility, when a yellow vehicle pulls into one lane and tractor truck pulling a loaded flatbed trailer pulls into another lane of the facility.
View at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Pre-loaded bomb racks are tug pulled by transport vehicles toward a B-52 F bomber aircraft. Pre-loaded racks of Mk 82 bombs are loaded into bomb bay of B-52 F aircraft by airmen. MJ-1 loading Mk 82 bombs on B-52 F wing cluster rack.
U.S. Vietnam veteran Army Sergeants instruct troops prepaing for deployment to Vietnam. Live fire training at a firing range. "Quick Kill" weapon pointing technique is taught, using "BB" air powered gun and aluminum disks. M-16 training. Two-week refresher course, at Fort Riley, Kansas, for Non-commissioned officers, preparing to return to war in Vietnam. (Vietnam War period).
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