U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troops at a sandbagged emplacement in Ankhe, Vietnam. Gun crewman holds a 106mm shell, as a Sergeant uses wrench to adjust fuze on its nose. Soldier then loads it into M-40 Recoilless Rifle. Another soldier looks through a scope mounted on side of the weapon. View of the 106mm shell. (Vietnam War period).
United States aircraft in flight for an air strike in South Vietnam. U.S. F8E Crusader moves in on the attack over a wooden area. Smoke rises from the area. Plane makes a steep dive. Small huts. Few rockets launches. Plane in flight low and launches a rocket which explodes on the ground in the target area and strafes the area. A thin road passes through the area. Plane in flight banks to left and moves over target area around Tay Ninh.
Base Operation buildings and headquarters at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Flags of United States and South Vietnam near a building. Air Force personnel pass near around the building. Operations buildings with signs and unit insignias: Headquarter of 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing, 416th Tactical fighter Squadron, Base Operations and control tower. Sign: 'Bien Hoa Base Operations Field Elevation 36 ft, Welcome 23rd VNAF Wing, USAF TAC FTR Wing'. (Vietnam War period).
USS Oriskany (CVA-34) on fire in South China Sea, off South Vietnam. Brief glimpse of smoky passageway, below decks. A helicopter lands on the deck. Sailors holding fire hoses all over the deck. Smoke comes through deck cracks from fire below. Crew members walk about on the flight deck among parked aircraft. Smoke everywhere. A large elevator rises to the flight deck. Groups of sailors all about the flight deck.
U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante and F-4B Phantom II aircraft parked on port side of flight deck on an aircraft carrier underway in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Crewmen stand near the aircraft on the flight deck. RA-5C Vigilante taxis out from parking area.
Aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany, conducting flight operations from Yankee Station, in South China Sea off Vietnam. Several A4-E aircraft return and land on the carrier deck, engaging the restraining cable, without incident. (A fire broke out on the ship from accidental igniting of flares, in a locker below the flight deck, on this day. It is not clear whether these aircraft landed before, during, or after that event.)
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