Activities at Soc Trang Air Base in Vietnam. Dr.Robert C. Seamans,secretary of the U.S. Air Force and his group inspecting VNAF Security Police Formation. VIPs on a stand for turnover ceremony including Gen. Lucius Clay 7th AF; Gen. Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army; Dr. Seamans; and Vietnamese Gen. Minh. U.S. troops marching in front of UH-1H aircraft and taking positions, and VNAF doing same as part of turnover ceremony of the base from the U.S. Army to the VNAF forces. Dr. Seamans pinning medals on VNAF personnel. (Vietnam War period).
Activities at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam. Secretary of the Air Force, Robert C Seamans along with Gen. Lucius Clay,7th AF Commander and party. Dr. Seamans shaking hands with U.S. Air Force personnel and inspecting AC-119K aircraft along with other officials. Dr. Seamans boarding a T-39A plane for departure. T-39A taxis on air field. (Vietnam War period).
Opening scene shows a message being received on a teletype machine from the U.S. 3rd Air Division. Two Air Force officers are seen seated at desks. One is labeled "Ops-Plans." The on duty operations officer passes on the message to his staff where it goes through operation, operation planning, maintenance, ordinance and armament. Technicians preparing the guns and loading ordnance for the mission, on a B-52 aircraft. Air crew members ate seen assembled in their briefing room, Glimpse of the mission briefing officer at a podium. View of wristwatch as narrator speaks of navigators synchronizing their watches. A B-52 crew stepping from their crew bus as they arrive at their aircraft. As other crew member climb aboard the plane, their aircraft commander reviews the aircraft status, as reflected on its Form 781, with the aircraft crew chief. Crew members then begins a pre-flight walk-around inspection, starting with the landing gear and wheel wells. The last of the crew enter the aircraft via a bottom hatch, which a ground crewman then fastens from the outside. Inside, crew members are seen going through pre-flight check lists at their respective duty stations. Back at the Command Post, the duty controller receives the order via secure telephone, from 3rd Air Division headquarters, to execute the mission. He informs the Aircraft Commander and the B-52 starts its engines. View of throttles being pushed forward in the cockpit, as the aircraft begins takeoff. View from ground as the B-52 takes off and flies overhead. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in the cockpit wearing helmet and oxygen mask. Hand of radar observer is seen as he checks out his equipment. Aerial closeup of a B-52 in flight. View of radar observer placing the aircraft controls in so-called "Second Station," with the autopilot controlled by the bombing navigation computer. Inflight closeup of B-52 opening its bomb bay doors and starting to drop bombs. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in cockpit and of B-52 aircraft in flight, as narrator states they are returning to U-Tapao Airbase,or to Guam. The aircraft in the mission are seen landing back at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, where other B-52s are parked on the ramp. They taxi to their parking places and crew members board buses back to operations for a mission debriefing.
Vietnamese soldiers in camouflaged suits assault boat. Accompanying them is a U.S. soldier carrying an M-16 rifle. Soldier pushes assault boat into river and starts engine, boat moves in the river.
Soldiers load rations into a Caribou plane. Cartons are loaded into the plane. Two T-28 Trojans parked on a Vietnamese airbase. Men fixes launcher on the wing of an aircraft, fill it with cartridges.
Viet Cong Army soldiers work on equipment to receive intelligence information by intercepting United States voice communication systems.
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