Recreational activities at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam. United States airmen and Vietnamese laborers work on foundation of a new gymnasium. Airman level the sand with a wooden rod. Vietnamese laborers remove excess sand with the help of spades.
Recreational activities at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam. Board reads 'Bus Stop'. Military bus with airmen arrives on the beach. Group of airmen come out of the bus for a swim. The bus leaves carrying another group of airmen. The Base Gymnasium made of inflatable structure.
Recreational activities at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam. Airmen play tennis at the Air base. Fenced area around the tennis court. Group of airmen play football on the beach. Tents in the background.
A-1 E aircraft of United states 1st Air Commando Squadron strikes Viet Cong positions during the Vietnam War. United States A-1E aircraft armed with white phosphorus bombs and fragmentation bombs in flight. Aircraft flies over wooded area. Aerial view of the road through the jungle. 20 mm wing guns fire. White phosphorus bombs explode and puff of smoke rises.
U.S. Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault using outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the war in Vietnam. (At first, the project used 10,000 pound World War II M121 bombs. In 1970, it switched to the 15,000 pound BLU-82/B bomb, also called a "Daisy Cutter".) View from another aircraft, of a C-130 aircraft in flight overhead. View inside the cargo compartment of the C-130 flying , with its rear cargo door open, above a layer of clouds. A parachute trails behind the aircraft, attached to a large pallet on which a BLU-82/B (Bomb Live Unit-82) is fastened. The load is released and the parachute pulls the pallet and bomb out of the plane. Scene reverts to the view of the C-130 from another aircraft. The parachute and bomb are seen falling from the C-130. Camera follows them as they fall through the cloud layer. Next, a huge ball of fire is seen in the jungle below. Dense gray smoke billows upward. Scene shifts to view from a helicopter flying closer to the ground, which is obscured by dense tree canopy below. View of the explosion site shows depression in the jungle canopy, but the helicopter doesn't get close enough to reveal more.
C-130 aircraft and crew, employed in Project Combat Trap/Commando Vault to drop outsized bombs to create helicopter landing zones in the jungle, during the Vietnam War. Pilot seen in left seat at the controls of a C-130 aircraft in flight. Closeup of the navigator peering into a shielded radar scope, and making measurements on a chart with a pair of compasses. Camera pans over pilot to forward view out the cockpit window. Closeup of the pilot at the controls. Screen of a plan position indicator (PPI) radar images being painted by revolving scan on the scope. Closeup of the copilot in the right seat. Loadmaster in the cabin holding radar beacon.
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