U.S. Air Force RF-4C Phantom II aircraft on flight line at Ubon Royal Thai Air Base. Crew Chief on ladder talking to pilot seated in cockpit. Group of of ground crewmen seen amongst several aircraft. Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) climb down from the RF-4C. Airmen inspect nose wheel well. Master Sergeant (E-7) talks with his ground crew personnel. Pilot fills out Form One. Ground crew continues with post-flight inspection.
Drainage operations going on. Machinery used to clear undergrowth. Scraper widens the canal. Views of scraper working and ploughing land. Driver of Caterpillar shown.
View of U.S. Army members of 15th Engineer Regiment in a recon car. They look through binoculars to observe enemy territory. (World War II period).
Aerial views, from light observation plane, of destroyed and damaged houses and buildings in town of Mortain, France, from bombardment by U.S. Army 155mm long tom guns, during World War 2.
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.
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.
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