B-52Ds in SEA. Truck towing bomb bay rack on dolly pulling up beside B-52D at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Men pushing empty bomb rack dolly away from B-52D. Men pushing a dolly loaded with bomb racks and another with a machine.
Maintenance team working on B-52D tail turret at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. A man climbing up a ladder to B-52D's tail turret. He works and then signals to the man sitting inside B-52D.
Film opens with view from left side of a U.S. Air Force truck moving in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The moving truck passes a team of Air Force munitions handlers off loading bombs from a flat bed truck, using a mobile crane. A crate of bombs has just been set on the ground. Next, the camera truck approaches an entrance gate of the facility, where an Air Force surveyor stands with a transit on a tripod. Several Thai persons stand in the shade of the entrance guard shack. One carries a camera. A guard is posted at the roadway. A sign atop the guard shack reads: "U-Tapao, 635 MMS, Munitions Storage Area." Closeup of the armed guard as he checks the camera truck and motions it to proceed. Scene changes showing a Thai truck carrying explosives, approaching to enter the Storage area. It is waved on by the armed sentry. Closeup of the sign at the Storage area entrance, shows logos of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Air Forces and the 13th Air Force. A U.S. Air Force tractor trailer truck, loaded with bombs, drives in an area of the facility containing racks of M117 General Purpose Bombs on low trailers in yellow steel shelters. Closeup of an Airman moving a bomb into a cradle that carries it up into the rack. An Air Force munitions handler rolling M117 bombs by their fins. Next, a munitions handling team is seen using a mobile crane to move a crate of bombs from a flat bed truck. The Team supervisor (a Staff Sergeant) spreaks into a walkie talkie radio during the operations.
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.
View from cab of Thai truck traveling toward U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai children watch as truck passes them standing their simple abodes. A sign identifies a construction project in progress. A religious temple is seen in background. Truck passes buildings in a town. Closeup of Thai driver at the wheel in truck cab. Several views of photographer slates are followed by roadside scenes, again. A sign advertises "Turtle Wax." View from side of road of trucks passing both ways.
B-52D strategic bombers, converted to carry conventional munitions, in Operation Arc Light, at U-Tapao during Vietnam War. Numerous U.S. Air Force B-52D bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are parked in concrete revetments at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. A single B-52 begins to taxi out of its parking place. As it turns toward the camera, sunlight glints off its windshield. It taxis slowly between the other parked aircraft. Scene shifts to a B-52 moving slowly along a taxiway towards the active runway, where two other B-52s are holding short. Low mountains dominate the background. Next, the taxiing B-52 continues along, behind only one other holding short of the active runway. (These three B-52s are likely leaving on a 3-aircraft Arc Light mission over Vietnam.) View of another B-52 taxiing past one parked in a revetment, while another B-52 departs on a long takeoff role along the active runway, in the background. Camera focuses on a B-52 taking off and becoming airborne.