A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army First Aviation Brigade, flies overhead, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. Blue, sky and white clouds seen above it. Next, it is seen descending vertically over the large bare earth field at the camp, near a white wind sock at the end of a section of the camp paved with pierced steel planking (PSP) aka Marsden matting. The chopper raises huge clouds of red clay dust. Scene shifts to the CH-47 settling down on part of field paved with PSP. A helicopter crewman walks past a parked UH-1 Huey helicopter, as a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport takes off on the camp runway. Camera follows the departing aircraft. Two CH-47s land near the runway. A Cessna O-2 Skymaster plane takes off on the runway. Three UH-1s with engines running, one airborne, near edge of PSP ramp. A UH-1 with engine running near revetments, as soldiers manually move a Hughes OH-6 Cayuse parked nearby. A CH-47 descending to land. Mountains seen in background.
Views of the Chance Vought swept-back jet fighter XF7U-1 (#122472) on runway of Patuxent Naval Air Station ready to take off. View of U.S. test pilot (possibly Robert Baker?) adjusting helmet. The aircraft takes off at a high speed. Photographers recording action as the aircraft goes aloft for a test flight.
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.
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