C-5A taxiing under direction of Thai worker at U-Tapao air base Thailand. C-5A first engine. Airmen roping off area around C-5 aircraft. Nozzle is connected to C-5A fueling receptacle. Fueling of C-5A from ramp reservoir.
C-5A showing crew at controls during flight and taxi in at U-Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand. C-5A, as rear cargo doors are opened and crewman directs K-loader to the rear of aircraft.
Thais and airmen pushing cargo pallets from C-5A, across K-loader and onto trailer at U-Tapao Air Force Base in Thailand.
Airmen refueling a KC-135A, of the 4258th Strategic Wing, at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Airman has some difficulty connecting refueling hose to the aircraft centerpoint refueling valve. After successfully connecting it, he uses the aircraft refueling panel to direct fuel to the appropriate tanks. Another airman operates a mobile pump unit connected to an underground fuel tank. Pilot (U.S. Air Force Captain Wells) approaches front of the aircraft, walks past auxiliary power unit cable, and begins preflight walk-around inspection. He is followed by crew chief.
Maintenance team working on B-52D tail turret at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. A man climbing up a ladder to B-52D's tail turret. He works and then signals to the man sitting inside B-52D.
Film opens with view from left side of a U.S. Air Force truck moving in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The moving truck passes a team of Air Force munitions handlers off loading bombs from a flat bed truck, using a mobile crane. A crate of bombs has just been set on the ground. Next, the camera truck approaches an entrance gate of the facility, where an Air Force surveyor stands with a transit on a tripod. Several Thai persons stand in the shade of the entrance guard shack. One carries a camera. A guard is posted at the roadway. A sign atop the guard shack reads: "U-Tapao, 635 MMS, Munitions Storage Area." Closeup of the armed guard as he checks the camera truck and motions it to proceed. Scene changes showing a Thai truck carrying explosives, approaching to enter the Storage area. It is waved on by the armed sentry. Closeup of the sign at the Storage area entrance, shows logos of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Air Forces and the 13th Air Force. A U.S. Air Force tractor trailer truck, loaded with bombs, drives in an area of the facility containing racks of M117 General Purpose Bombs on low trailers in yellow steel shelters. Closeup of an Airman moving a bomb into a cradle that carries it up into the rack. An Air Force munitions handler rolling M117 bombs by their fins. Next, a munitions handling team is seen using a mobile crane to move a crate of bombs from a flat bed truck. The Team supervisor (a Staff Sergeant) spreaks into a walkie talkie radio during the operations.
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