Messing facilities at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in South Vietnam. Airmen dip mess plates in hot boiling water before entering the mess. Group of men dump food into garbage can and scrub mess gear. They sterilize the gear after use. Vehicles parked outside the mess. Airmen wait in line at the Dining Entrance.
Opening scene shows South Vietnamese soldiers stacking a large cache of intercepted arms destined for the Viet Cong, including a million rounds of small arms ammunition. Also seen are AK-47 rifles and mortar rounds that contain Chinese markings. Camera focuses on the Chinese writing. Next, North Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, is seen seating himself at a table to talk informally with others, including General Vo Nguyen Giap. (Vietnam War period).
United States aircraft carrier in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Men working on deck of Essex-class USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) aircraft carrier. An A-1 Skyraider (VA-215 “Barn Owls” of the United States Navy) is seen loaded and ready with wings folded. Ordnance crew carry rocket to a Vought F-8 Crusader. Ordnance crew attaching the Sidewinder rocket to the rack on the side of the Vought F-8 Crusader. Men stand near a Douglas A-1H Skyraider unfolding its wings. Bombs are seen attached to the bomb racks under the wings of Douglas A-1H Skyraider aircraft. Ordnance crew loading 250 1b. bombs under the starboard outboard station of a Douglas A-1H Skyraider. Squadron aircraft parked on flight deck. A crewman looking through binoculars down onto the flight deck of the USS Hancock. Radar moving beside crewman. Captain Frank B. Stone (Commander of the USS Hancock) and Captain H.S. Matthews Jr. (Executive officer) reading a map together. Captain Stone is seated in a chair holding some official paper work, Captain Matthews standing alongside Captain Stone with a map. Crew men pulling rockets on wheels on the mess deck.
A Vietnamese bay at sunrise. Rooster crowing. Water buffaloes grazing in farm field. A native Vietnamese bird perched on a plant. Farmer wearing nón lá hat plants rice in rice field. Alarm clock wakes a United States soldier. The soldier pulls away mosquito net and rises from his bed. Soldiers taking cold showers in communal shower room with bamboo walls. Mechanical personnel arrive at an American airbase. A U.S. Air Force fighter jet is parked in airfield. A young mechanic wipes the sweat off his forehead. The mechanics start their work. A horse cart in a street market in South Vietnam. Man pushing a cart of sugar cane, girls walk behind him. Vietnamese natives shopping in busy street. Cars and pedestrians pass by a sentry checkpoint.
A United States Air Force transport plane drops leaflets over a jungle during the Vietnam War, in a campaign to convince Vietcong fighters to surrender. A soldier dropping leaflets into a chute. Leaflets being flown towards a mountain. Soldier inspects a reel-to-reel tape player inside a reconnaissance plane. Reconnaissance plane takes off from air strip. Reconnaissance plane drops leaflets and surrender passes over enemy territory. A Vietcong rebel surrenders to South Vietnamese and U.S. Army troops. Vietcong rebel holding a safe conduct pass. Soldier searches the rebel and accepts his surrender pass, then shakes his hand. The soldiers and surrendered Vietcong rebel leave.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
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