USS Mount Baker (AE-4) is approached by USS Mansfield (DD-728) for supply of ammunition during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. Mount Baker underway at high speed. Officers and men on bridge of AE-4. Working party of 5 men pulling a line on lower deck on DD-728. Men pull a small messenger line from AE-4. Men wearing life-jackets work with small lines. A stack of 5-inch shells high-lined from the AE-4 to DD-728.
5-inch shells high-lined from the USS Mount Baker (AE-4) to USS Mansfield (DD-728) during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. The ammunition stack lifted from AE-4 and moves on cable. It swings on the cable. It reaches DD-728 and lands on a mattress set up on deck. Men unhook the stack from high-line. Another stack arrives. Men unfasten the hook and release the rig. The rig returns. The two ships underway in water. A man wearing helmet sits on deck of DD-728 and looks at AE-4. View of AE-4 from DD-728.
5-inch shells from USS Mansfield hitting the shore line, the area containing the Viet Cong during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. Smoke arises from shore. White phosphorus shells explode at the shore line. Mountains in background of the shore. Shells striking beach area from USS Mansfield. 5-inch gun firing at shore. A man enters the mount. Empty shell casings come out of the chutes. Twin guns of the mount fire salvo. The mount fires regularly. A man stands at the mount as it fires. (Vietnam War period).
First half of the film shows explosions along the shore from U.S. naval gunfire. The explosions appear to indicate various types of munitions being used, including occasional bursts of white phosphorus shells. At TC:2:08, the U.S. Destroyer USS Mansfield (DD-728) is seen engaged in the bombardment. View from her bridge shows her 5-inch/38 guns turned to port and firing a salvo from the forward pair of guns. Thereafter the remainder of the film shows more views of her shells striking along the shore. Mountains are seen close to the shore in the background.
The USS Mansfield (DD-728) fires a salvo, from 5-inch guns, to port at nighttime, during Operation Sea Dragon, in the Vietnam War. The firing generates a fireball and brown smoke that slowly drifts away to port. Next, are several scenes from the bridge of the Mansfield, looking down on her twin 5-inch gun turrets turned forward. These are taken as dawn gradually increases the ambient light. A sailor is seen at the Mk 37 Director position above the bridge of the Mansfield. The film ends with numerous views of a U.S. Army Cessna O-1E/L-19 observation plane making passes, at low altitude, near and above the Mansfield.
USS Mansfield hitting 5-inch shells on the shore line, the area containing the Viet Cong during Operation Sea Dragon in Vietnam. View of shore. Smoke arise from shore. White phosphorus shells explodes at the shore line. Mountains in background of the shore. Shells striking beach area fired from USS Mansfield. 5-inch gun firing at shore. A man enters the mount. Empty shell casings come out of the chutes. Twin guns of the mount fire salvo. A man stands at the mount as it fires. (Vietnam War period).