United States AC-119K stinger at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. Airmen pull wires of parachute flares and cover it. They load it to plane. Crew arrives in pickup truck and boards AC-119K. Airmen climb up stairs in plane.
A group of U.S. soldiers stands next to MEDEVAC helicopter caring for a wounded man on stretcher. Wounded man moved into MEDEVAC with glucose bottle held by another man. Another wounded man is brought to side of helicopter and taken aboard helicopter. Pilot climbs into cockpit. Helicopter takes off from field at Tan Son Entrance, other UH-1D helicopters in revetments on ground. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army troops in a jeep loaded with ammunition, passes it out to men on perimeter line. Soldiers in heavy sandbagged bunker. Jeep backs away with boxes of ammunition on hood. Small armored vehicle disabled. Lookout tower at R6x truck in the background. Few men walk around perimeter of Tan Son Entrance. Wounded man carried on stretcher to side of MEDEVAC helicopter at Tan Son Entrance. Wounded man removed from ambulance. UH-46D helicopter hovers over field in the far background. MEDEVAC takes off. Ambulance passes in the foreground. UH-1B helicopter comes for landing. Helicopters in revetments. Man holds fuel nozzle during refueling of helicopter. He removes nozzle from tank of UH-1B and replaces cap. Men carry supplies to MEDEVAC. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. trooper searches a suspected Vietcong at side of large quonset hut. Two troopers guard the third trooper searching suspected Vietcong. Suspected Vietcong moved off by troopers. Suspect placed in jeep. Suspect in jeep with hands held behind head, man at the back of jeep covers him. Jeep pulls away and passes many supplies at Tan Son Entrance Air Force Base. Jeep stopped at curb. Sentry guards suspect. Suspect stands alongside building. Officers come out of doorway in the background, including a Vietnamese officer. Sentry speaks with U.S. official. Vietnamese officer checks suspect. Suspect lead away by group of officials. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldier checks dead Vietcong lying on ground. Smoke rises in the distant background. Soldier removes items from dead Vietcong, turns the body over and picks up B-40 rockets. Bombs explode and smoke rises from area as A-1H helicopters attack Vietcong on perimeter of Tan Son Entrance. U.S. Air Force trooper watches bombs exploding. He moves away. Aircraft in flight. Smoke and fire rise during bombing attack. USAF men stand near vehicle. Two tanks in motion at Tan Son Entrance Airfield. USAF personnel lay prone along runway with M-16s. Men along runway wait to attack. Troops walk towards vehicle. (Vietnam War period).
View from a U.S. Marine bunker as enemy shell explodes nearby, during the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 during the Vietnam War. The United States Marines in the Battle of Khe Sanh firing mortars and a 105mm howitzer from their bunker. Enemy shells exploding on the tarmac, where American Air Force C-130 aircraft are parked. Marines rushing wounded comrades on stretchers, to C-130s for evacuation. Scene shifts to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel James P. Sheehan, standing at Camp Pendleton, California. (He was a company commander in the siege at Khe Sanh.) As he describes the C-130 aircraft support operations, a contingent of marines marches past, behind him. Scene shifts to a civilian narrator standing in the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Center at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Among other things, he describes MAC support to the Tactical Air Command in Korea. Camera focuses on MAC air routes in the vicinity of the Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Next, is seen view of airfield at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, briefly at sunset, and then at night, as pilots of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing and their F-111 aircraft prepare to depart for Korea, in response to border tensions, in August, 1976, after North Korean forces killed two American officers ("Korean Axe Murder Incident" and resulting "Operation Paul Bunyan"). Ground crewman directs a taxiing F-111 using lighted wands. The F-111s takes off. One of them is seen landing after the 7 thousand mile flight to Korea, as Major Paul Malandrino,Jr. (unseen) of the 366th Wing, speaks about MAC's airlift support. A C-141 MAC aircraft is seen landing. View of a C-141 with tail doors open and its cargo of military equipment on the ramp behind it. Glimpse of a marine with rifle and earphones, guarding equipment on the airfield ramp. Closeups of F-111 aircraft taking off.
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