Opening shows a large paved area filled with M117 General Purpose Bomb casings standing on their tail fins.Thai workers are tagging them. Camera pans over the workers as they tag the bomb tail assembly casings. Another view from the side, showing the rows of bomb casings and Thai workers. Scene shifts to some M117 bomb casings standing on tail fins in a shipping depot. A yellow vehicle and a tractor truck with a loaded flat bed trailer pull into separate lanes of the depot. The same event is seen from a different perspective.
Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
A tractor trailer load of MK 82 General Purpose bomb arrives at a receiving depot in the munitions storage area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A Thai worker and an Air Force munitions handler install chocks ahead and behind the trailer wheels as other Thai workers climb aboard the flat bed trailer. Thai workers roll the bombs to an Air Force munitions handler who uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten tail assemblies onto the bombs. Another tractor trailer of bombs pulls into an adjacent lane of the receiving depot. Closeup of the Air Force munitions handler using his pneumatic tool to fasten the tail assemblies on the bombs.Thai helpers place tail assemblies on each bomb for the munitions handler and roll the completed assemblies into a line. View of assembled MK 82 bombs with tail fins and nose fuses installed and tagged.
View at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Pre-loaded bomb racks are tug pulled by transport vehicles toward a B-52 F bomber aircraft. Pre-loaded racks of Mk 82 bombs are loaded into bomb bay of B-52 F aircraft by airmen. MJ-1 loading Mk 82 bombs on B-52 F wing cluster rack.
U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Airmen near bomb bay of B-52 D aircraft. Airman looks at racks loaded with Mk 82 bombs to be loaded in bomb bay of aircraft B-52 D. Close view of airman and pre-loaded racks.
View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
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