Vietnamese refugees arriving in the United States near the end of the Vietnam War, after the fall of Saigon. Tents in the background at the Vietnamese Refugee Processing Center of Eglin Air Force Base, outside Valparaiso, Florida. A sign board near a tent reads 'Airline ticket office'. An officer talks to a refugee family. The family consists of an older man, Mr. Ky Ly, who is present with his son and his son's family. His son is Mr. Thuyen Ly, a Vietnamese C-130 aircraft Commander with the 435th Squadron at Tan Son Nhut airbase. Also seen are Mr. Ly's wife, Mrs. Bich-Thuy Nguyen, and their two children, 5 year old Quyen Ly and 3 year old Vuong-Kha Ly. The Ly family speaks with a U.S. Air Force officer. Tents in the area. The Ly family seen walking in the tent complex. They enter a tent. The older Mr. Ly removes his glasses and a man takes his photograph for an identification card. Mr. Thuyen Ly sits for a photograph. A man takes his photograph. At a finger printing station, a man takes thumb impressions of Vietnamese refugees arriving in the United States.
Flight deck operations aboard USS Ranger underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War. U.S. Navy A4D Skyhawk touching down and taxiing on the deck. U.S. Navy F8U Crusader making arrested landing. The F8U aircraft touching down for the arrested landing.
Flight deck operations aboard USS Ranger underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Navy HUP-2 helicopter comes in for a landing on the forward part of the flight deck of USS Ranger. The helicopter touches down on the forward part of the deck. A group of flight deck personnel next to the helicopter. A tractor tows a U.S. Navy F9F8T Cougar aircraft forward from the after part of the deck. The tractor turns while towing the F9F8T.
Desron (Destroyer Squadron) 20 returns from Vietnam. Crewmen on the fantail of a DD as it is tied up at a shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island. A stern line seen over in the foreground. A young boy holds a sign which reads 'Welcome Home Johnny'. A port bow view shows USS Brownson (DD-868) being eased up towards the pier for tying up. A silhouetted view of crewmen up on the bow of the ship. A flag on the stern of another DD seen in the foreground. Line handlers, handling lines on the pier for the USS Brownson, in deep silhouette. A navy sentry holds onto the line keeping the crowd back. Crewmen on the fantail of the DD. A woman holding a small boy in her arms waves. A small lad holds a sign 'Welcome home Johnny'. Brow being put in place by one of the dock cranes of the DD. A large group of dependents. One of them holds a large sign reading: 'Welcome Home Don'. A mother and many other dependents wave. Three enlisted men man the rail of the DD during the tying up. Crewmen aboard a DD. One of them waves and talks to someone on the pier. Reunions take place. An officer in the foreground kisses his wife. A man recording the events with his movie camera. The dependents rush towards the brow to go aboard one of the DDs.
Trailer trucks loaded with bombs enters the munitions loading docks at a Strategic Air Command Base in Guam, during the Vietnam War. Armorers assemble tail fins and insert fuses in AN-M113A1 thousand pound bombs. Caps being removed and fuses being screwed into bomb noses. Arming wires fastened to the fuses. 750 pound bombs being unloaded from racks and mounted under wings of B-52. Loaded B-52s taking off from airfield in darkness and climbing to high cruise altitudes from where the setting sun is still visible, as they fly West.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the Presidency in United States. Lincoln Memorial and reflecting pool, at night, as seen from the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Potomac River in background. View of the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House. Presidential Seal. Officials deliberating. Ballistic missiles. Soviet leader, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Russian troops. U.S. Aircraft carrier. U.S. helicopters in flight. U.S. tank crew in a Patton tank. Citizens of United States. U.S. soldiers in Vietnam War. Presidential Seal. The White House. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Statue of Liberty in New York. The campaign stresses that Nixon has the required qualifications and experience of a leader.
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