Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Navy A-1H Skyraider aircraft parked on the flight deck of USS Ticonderoga. Other aircraft parked in the background. Bombs are loaded under the wings of the aircraft. Men of the ship's Marine Detachment, supervised by an Aviation Ordnanceman, hang the bombs on the wings. A gas crew fuels the wing pod on the aircraft. Hoses in the foreground. Men of the Marine Detachment push bomb carts over the flight deck, with bombs to be loaded aboard the aircraft.. They are monitored by Aviation Ordnancemen, AOC Fidel Cisneroz, AO3 Jim Freemon, and LTJG Dan Clark. Four pilots in flight gear, walk on the flight deck. Aviation ordnancemen, AOAN Carl Collier (viewers left) and AO3 Ron Colaw use a small bomb hoist to place a 1000 pound bomb under the carriage of the A-1H aircraft. (Vietnam War period).
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Pilots in a ready room aboard the ship. They are being briefed by an officer. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Bowling, who is one of the pilots involved in air strike on North Vietnam. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Render Crayton, another pilot involved in the air strike, seated in the ready room during the briefing. Lieutenant Er and Weber also in the ready room during the briefing. The Commanding Officer of the Squadron stands before a map of Vietnam and briefs the pilots.
Re-enactment of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A catapult officer gives an aircraft take off signal aboard the ship. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk and F-8E Crusader aircraft taxi up to a catapult. The RF-8A aircraft takes off from the port catapult. The A-4E aircraft takes off. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft on the catapult. An A-1H Skyraider taxis on the flight deck. USS Maddox underway. Number '731' written on the port bow of the ship. USS Maddox makes a sharp starboard turn.
Activity aboard U.S. Navy ship USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two seamen mount a fin on a 1000 Pound (lb.) bomb. A man screws a flange on the tail section using a spatter type wrench on the extreme end. Another man carries a bomb on a trolley and pushes it into an elevator and closes its door. He puts another bomb in the elevator. A man mounts a tail fin on a 250 lb. Bomb on a bomb cart in a workshop. An aviation ordnance man screws a flange on a bomb and pushes three bombs into the elevator and pulls down the door. (Vietnam War period.)
USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, Commander 7th Fleet and staff sit around a table. They talk to each other. Vice Admiral Johnson stands in front of a wall map and points to various locations along the coast of Vietnam using a small stick. (Vietnam War period.)
1st Marine Division encircled near Chosin Reservoir Korea during November-December 1950 in the Korean War. U.S. marines walk and help wounded to get onto a U.S. Marine Corps aircraft. The marines walk over a ramp to the aircraft. They carry a wounded marine on a stretcher and transfer him into the aircraft. Marines receive the order to retreat and to burn and destroy everything. View of burning houses and buildings in a village following the orders. The marines and trucks being retreat. Aircraft in flight overhead providing cover. The marines pull dead bodies behind them over snow covered, frozen ground.
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