Dead Vietcong lay on ground on outskirts of Tan Son Entrance Air Force Base. U.S. personnel in the background. U.S. personnel check out area following attack. ARVN personnel look over captured Vietcong ammo. B-40 rocket and grenade lay in grass. Dead Vietcong lay in tall grass, another in foreground. U.S. and ARVN personnel talk and look over dead Vietcong. CH-37 helicopter approaches for landing, kicking up much dust. American trooper takes pictures of dead Vietcong. Man examines dead Vietcong. Ammunition and grenades removed from body. Pile of B-40 rockets and grenades accumulated by U.S. forces in field near dead Vietcong lying in grass. (Vietnam War period).
Tet offensive attack by Viet Cong, during Vietnam War. Hole blown in wall of U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon. B-40 rocket and other explosives removed from dead Vietcong. EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) men remove explosives from bodies of dead on U.S. embassy grounds in Saigon.Troopers walk on embassy grounds. Vietnamese man and woman at gates. Dead body of Vietcong on embassy grounds. The building damaged. General Westmoreland talks with slightly injured personnel on the scene.
U.S. soldiers around two jeeps and a truck alongside road. Soldiers pull out a jeep from a street. V-100 armored commando car backs out from a narrow alley. Soldiers and MP fire rifles and machine guns in alley. Soldiers duck and run away from truck which blocks the alley. V-100 approaches. Soldiers follow behind V-100 as it drives slowly into alley. Soldiers fire at building. Soldier under cover of tree rapid fires his M-16 rifle. Soldiers pull a wounded MP (Military Police) from alley. Medic treats wounded as V-100 drives past in the background. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Truck convoy enters gate of the camp. Soldiers wave from truck. Vietnamese young boys and girls fill sandbags. Soldiers look on. Soldier load sandbags onto a truck. (Vietnam War period. This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Soldiers set up an antenna at a command post. Sandbags and tents in the background. Soldiers set up poles. Soldiers connect poles. Soldier attacks at a cable with an instrument. (Vietnam War period. This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
Opening scene shows two U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchief aircraft taking off in pre-dawn from Vietnam on a bombing mission, in 1966, during the Vietnam War. Next, the F-105s are seen diving and dropping bombs that explode into fire and smoke on the ground. Closeup of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) KC-135 aircraft in flight. It has been modified to serve as as a "Combat Lightning" aircraft that serves as a communication link between the Tactical Air Reporting Center at Monkey Mountain, near Danang, Vietnam and ground radar, airborne radar and any U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam. KC-135 "Combat Lightning" crew members are seated in a briefing room at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, in Thailand. A briefing officer explains their mission, using charts and a map labeled SECRET Noforn (no foreign access) showing Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin. The briefer points to an area in the Gulf, and sketches a figure eight, showing where and how the KC-135 should maneuver in a holding pattern during its mission. Crew members rise and leave at the end of the briefing. View of a Strategic Air Command EC-135L that arrived on May 29, 1967, along with another, to support 24 hour "Combat Lightning" operations. Ground crewman directs the EC-135L as it taxis out and then takes off, past a C-130 aircraft holding short of the active runway. (Narrator notes that by the end of July, 1967, there were four "Combat Lightning" C-135 aircraft operating at U-Tapao airfield.) View from above of EC-135L aircraft in flight above clouds, en route to its assigned location over the Gulf of Tonkin. View of radio operator inside the aircraft, who is in radio contact with U-Tapao and the aircraft they are going to relieve. View of map showing their destination figure-eight holding pattern. Radio operator establishes the same contacts used by the aircraft they are relieving, to assure continuity of communications. Remainder of the film contains extended views of the radio operator at his station and of the EC-135 aircraft in flight. Near the end, the crew's Armaments and Electronics Technician is seen pulling a piece of malfunctioning electronic gear from a rack and replacing it with a spare, stored nearby.
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