View of Ashinya Air Force Base building in Japan. 187th Regiment of 11th Airborne Division load ammunition on vehicles. They board C-54 Skymasters parked at Ashinya Air Force Base, Japan. The Aircraft takes off from airstrip. C-119 Flying Boxcar in flight. C-54 Skymasters lands at Kimpo Air Force Base in South Korea. Paratroopers disembark the aircraft and carry a wounded soldier on stretcher. Boats unloaded from C-119 Flying Boxcars at Kimpo Air Force Base. Air Force General Kenney, General Stratemeyer and retired General Spaatz tour the airbase and look at equipment lying on ground. North Korean Yak fighter plane in the background. (Korean War period.)
Damage results from early morning enemy rocket attack at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. View of base perimeter area before dawn: searchlights, flares and circling aircraft. Sign of 'Rosie's club'. Smoke rises from debris at Air Base. Daylight view of U.S. Marine Corps UH-1s and U.S. attack bomber A-1E Skyraiders circling outside base perimeter. View of perimeter area. (Vietnam War period).
Responsibilities and duties of U.S. military personnel towards United States Kadena Air Base and Japan. Okinawa-The Keystone of the Pacific. Two U.S. military enlisted technicians look through a microscope. A nurse talks to a technician. U.S. Airmen work in an airplane maintenance shop. A female U.S. military NCO works as a clerk. U.S. Airman works on a machine and spray paints a missile. U.S. Airman drives a truck in Air base. Pilot puts on mask in cockpit of his fighter plane. A U.S. transport airplane takes off from the air base. A U.S. fighter jet takes off from air base. View of sunset on Okinawa.
View, from very low-flying helicopter, circling the perimeter of of Fire Support Base Charlie One in Vietnam. An observation tower is seen. Mountains in the distant background. Several circular gun emplacements are visible. (Elements of the 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery were stationed at the base during this period.) Some smaller emplacements are seen closer to the perimeter. All structures on the base are low and flat. What appears to be a river and a town in the background. I was in Vietnam at Charlie 1 in 1970 (Jun to Nov) with 2nd BN 94th Arty. I was also at Camp Carrol (J.J. Carrol). They are two different locations, considerable distance apart. NO WAY was it " Fire Support Base Charlie One at Camp Carroll" To describe the "Underground Bunkers" picture Metal culverts about 8-10 foot in diameter, maybe 20 feet long in a wooden box covered in gravel with one end open with a door.
A loading operation of relief supplies, army personnel and equipment in a C-130A Hercules at Ramstein Air Force Base and NATO Command Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The C-130A Hercules taxis on the ground. A plane is stationed at the air base. Another plane lands and taxis. Ramp of the plane. Crewmen stand near it. 7th Army personnel board the plane. They work on a machine. A plane is ready to depart from the base. The engine starts. Wings of the propeller move. Ground crewmen stand near the plane and remove the power cable. The ramp retracts. Crewmen chief and firemen stand nearby. Men carry baggage and equipment towards the plane. Vehicles near it. The plane taxis.
A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. The crew members stand near the plane prior to the engine starting. One member talks to the crew in the plane over a radio phone. Power cables are attached to the underside of the plane's external power receptacles. A view of a hand pulling power cables from the receptacles. A ground crewman removes an engine warm up equipment. He removes a C-26 type electrical equipment auxiliary power unit from near the B-47 Stratojet. Another B-47 Stratojet stationary in the background as seen from beneath the wing of another B-47 Stratojet. Another B-47 Stratojet taxis. Interiors of a briefing room. The bombardment group sitting. The gate entrance to Brize Norton Air Force Base. Activity at the gate as civilians drive cars. They enter and leave the base. An ambulance pulls up at the gate. A sign reads ' Brize Norton RAF Station 3920th Air Base Group Welcomes You. Col. W. N. Van Sickle Command'.
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