Opening day of New Cam Ranh Bay Base Exchange in Vietnam. United States military personnel wait in line to buy items from the Base Exchange. Soldier seated outside the Base Exchange area. Timings of the base Exchange, from Monday to Saturday and Sunday, written on a board. (Vietnam War period).
Opening day of New Cam Ranh Bay Base Exchange in Vietnam. Long line of United States military personnel waiting in line to buy items from the Base Exchange. Vehicles drive past the queue of soldiers. (Vietnam War period).
Opening day of New Cam Ranh Bay Base Exchange in Vietnam. United States Military personnel buying items inside Base Exchange. They walk out carrying load of goods in their hands. Items displayed on stand inside the store. Group of personnel paying bills at the cash counter. A soldier takes out a playboy book from the shelf. Vietnamese women on the cash counter. (Vietnam War period).
Recreational activities at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam. United States airmen and Vietnamese laborers work on foundation of a new gymnasium. Airman level the sand with a wooden rod. Vietnamese laborers remove excess sand with the help of spades.
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
Inauguration ceremony for a new blast furnace at the state-owned Ensidesa steel factory in Avilés, Asturias, Spain. Francisco Franco visits the factory. He converses with military officials. A dignitary arrives at the site and shakes hands with officials. A man instructs a team while they tour the blast furnace factory. Exterior and interior views of the factory. A board reads 'Ensidesa Horno Alto nº1: Carmen'. (The furnace was named "Carmen" in honor of Francisco Franco's wife.) Francisco Franco addresses the crowd during a banquet following the inaugural ceremony. People clap their hands. (The Ensidesa factory is now part of ArcelorMittal.)
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