Security police QRT (Quick Reaction Team) members board V-100 vehicle at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam. Another airman at his post. V-100 vehicle driven past perimeter guard tower. Tracers fired at night.
366th Fighter Wing crew members at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. Air crews of 366th Tactical Fighter Wing scramble to their F4E aircraft, sheltered in revetments covered with individual semicircular reinforced roofs.(Sound heard in first part of the clip is radio chatter unrelated to the images.) Crew chiefs help the pilots and backseaters (weapon systems officers) to strap in. Pilot seen and heard receiving, acknowledging, and dialing in the local altimeter setting. Closeup of sharks mouth painted on aircraft. Red rotating light on vehicle roof (unseen). Closeup of assorted airborne weapons slung under an F-4E. Crew chiefs remove safety pins and covers from weapons of both aircraft. Crew chief secures nose panel on aircraft.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force F-100 in flight. Its SE tail code identifies it as belonging to the 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, out of Tuy Hoa, Vietnam. This is a two-seater F-100F training aircraft employed as a fast Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Operation Commando Sabre. Its back seat is empty. Various views of the aircraft are shown, some with brilliant blue sky background. Background radio transmissions sound like a Navy or Marine GCA unit giving approach guidance to an aircraft. Beginning at TC: 01:50, an F-4E of the 366th Fighter Wing is seen, flying on the wing of the F-100. The flight of two continues in formation to the end of the film.
Damage caused at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Smoke rising from burning aircraft along the flight line. Damaged aircraft parts on flight line. Vietnamese Air Force personnel move near the aircraft. U.S. Air Force A-1E's and other planes being taxied to safety.
United States aircraft strike at North Vietnamese targets in south Vietnam. Aerial view of the target area. Field, trees and small group of buildings among trees at curve of a small canal. Explosion goes off near buildings. U.S. A-1H aircraft moving in to attack north Vietnamese. It flies over a river. Bomb explodes near a hut.
Civil life in Vietnam. Trucks move on a road. Rifle barrel pointing through bush. Rifle barrel pointing and fire. Breech of gun. Several birds scared off from a tree. Various buildings. Interiors of a hospital area with several patients. A young girl lying in bed. Two nuns near a girl with bandages on her head and hand. Dead body of a nun. Fresh grave in a graveyard. Official in a hospital talks to a patient. Bandage on leg of a patient. Officer in uniform talks to Vietnamese boys . Helmet, guns, bombs exhibited. Board over entrance gate reads 'Truong Tieu Hog So Cap'. Children play on a ground of a school, a woman walks past them. Officer places a wreath. Soldiers salute. People stand and watch.
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