34th Tactical Group increases precautionary measures and aircraft buildup due to Viet Cong attacks at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Scenes of U.S. Air Force B-57C's parked. Captain in cockpit of B-57C' and Air Force personnel assist captain in getting into seat belt. Engines starts and black smoke arises from cartridge starters. Three B-57C aircraft taxi and take off. (Vietnam War period).
Flight line activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Parked A-1Es on steel matting. U.S. UH-1Bs and UH-1Ds take off from dirt field. Helicopters stir up a cloud of dust.
Flight line activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Ordnance crew uploads frag bombs onto A-1E pylon.
U.S. military officers prepare to receive General Walter C Sweeney. View of Hangar No 5 at Homestead Air Force Base in background. General Walter C Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB in Florida. He is greeted by other officers.1962.
U.S. airmen and Vietnamese worker sandbag a cargo container. Sign on a building reads 'Post Office APO 96368'. RMK Staff and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron staff mess building at Phu Cat Air Force Base. Sign on the mess building reads 'Lunch Schedule Breakfast 0500-0630 Lunch 1130-1300 Dinner 1630-1930 Midnight 2300-2330'. Air tank near the mess building. U.S. Airman and Vietnamese worker dig ground with shovel near billet under construction. (Vietnam War period).
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
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