View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
View from cab of Thai truck traveling toward U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Thai children watch as truck passes them standing their simple abodes. A sign identifies a construction project in progress. A religious temple is seen in background. Truck passes buildings in a town. Closeup of Thai driver at the wheel in truck cab. Several views of photographer slates are followed by roadside scenes, again. A sign advertises "Turtle Wax." View from side of road of trucks passing both ways.
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.
Air Force tractor pulls a rack of bombs under the wing of a B-52 bomber and to the front of the aircraft, parked on a ramp at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, during the Vietnam war. Photograpner slate interrupts, followed by view of another tractor pulling several racks of bombs under and past the B-52. The train of bomb racks continues moving along the ramp toward other B-52s parked in revetments.
Film opens showing a blue crew bus moving on a ramp at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand, during the Vietnam war. It stops near a B-52 bomber, and the crew members step from the bus. Some carry gear in A-3 bags. The crew members each begin their respective preflight inspections, as the aircraft commander looks over the aircraft's Form 1. Photographer slate is shown. Then the scene is retaken. The aircraft commander is seen looking over the bombs loaded on the aircraft.
Film opens with view of building at Vandenburg Air Force Base, California. Sign on it reads: "1967 SAC Missile Combat Competition." Two Air Policemen stand at building entry next to two American flags. Inside the building, SAC missile crews line up to register. Participants are two combat crews and one target alignment team from each of the six Minuteman and two Titan II Wings. Next, Missile Wing Commanders drew envelopes from the Blanchard Perpetual Trophy Cup, to determine their specific exercise times. Closeup of Wing Commanders seated during the drawing. Closeup of the Blanchard Trophy. Views of Wing Commanders selecting envelopes from the Trophy. Scene shifts to outdoors, where a blue van is parked and a target alignment team of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, is setting up and performing their "aiming" task. Next, a Titan II launch crew from the 308th Wing is seen in white coveralls inside a launch control training facility, working with consoles and computers. scene shifts to competition headquarters, where results are being posted on a large display board. Meanwhile, a Minuteman missile crew, from the 351st Stratgic Missile Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri, is seen performing actions in the training facility. A member receives a problem via telephone, and the crew works to solve it. More views of crews at work and scores being posted. View of auditorium where the award ceremony is being conducted on April 7th. General Joseph Nazzaro, CINCSAC, goes to the podium, as the audience rises and applauds. He makes a few congratulatory remarks to all participants and sits back down, as a Colonel prepares to announce the awards. Closeup of Wing Commanders and others in the audience. Three airmen from the 308th Wing pose with awards for best maintenance and best Titan maintenance. 390th Wing members pose with awards for best Titan crew. More awards are presented concluding with the top awards.
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