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).
Construction and establishment of base a project of RMK and 819th civil engineering squadron 1. Base and runway under construction. Barracks and warehouse buildings on ground. Construction trucks,bulldozers and other construction machinery on ground. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. airmen and Vietnamese worker sandbag a cargo container. Sign on a building reads 'Post Office APO 96368'. RMK Staff and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron staff mess building at Phu Cat Air Force Base. Sign on the mess building reads 'Lunch Schedule Breakfast 0500-0630 Lunch 1130-1300 Dinner 1630-1930 Midnight 2300-2330'. Air tank near the mess building. U.S. Airman and Vietnamese worker dig ground with shovel near billet under construction. (Vietnam War period).
Wooden planks and blocks stacked on ground. Airmen saw lumbar with 'Dewalt' power saw. Airmen build base buildings. 819th CES dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project area. Sign on the dispensary building reads ' Sick Call Hours-Routine Daily 0730-0930 1300-1400 Sunday and Holiday 1000 Emergencey Any time'. Military ambulance is parked near the dispensary building at RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron base project. (Vietnam War period).
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
819th CES construction area of the RMK and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Air Force base project. Vietnamese workers at a nearly completed billet. Vietnamese workers pose. Vietnamese workers nail board to a nearly completed billet. Airman saws wooden planks and blocks with a power saw. 819th CES squadron 1 crest on shirt pocket. (Vietnam War period).