U.S. "Brown Water Navy" men gather around a military hovercraft, aka Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV), at Dong Tam Base Camp, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The engine is running and one of the men is making adjustments to it. (Images end at TC:00:25. Remainder is wild sound only.)
Dredging operations at U.S. "Brown Water Navy" Base Camp, Dong Tam, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. Mud and water flowing out the end of a dredge pipe. A man in shorts, wearing a combat helmet, is monitoring the operation in the background. Closeup of that man standing ankle-deep in mud. Closeup of the high-volume output at the end of the dredge pipe. A caterpillar tractor moves mud to form a berm. Closeup of the tractor blade moving mud. More views of the tractor at work. Closeup of a Vietnamese man at the tractor controls. View at some distance from the dredge pipe and berm.
View of the Dredge, "New Jersey," employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deepen a turning basin in the Mekong River, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. This action is part of the U.S. construction of the Dong Tam Base, in the Mekong Delta. Scene shifts to interior of engine room aboard the dredge where a rotating shaft and pump outlet are visible. On deck, camera focuses on sign above the bridge reading: "New Jersey." Sign above the doorway reads: "No Visitors Allowed." Views of dredging pipes laying across the ship's deck and extending out across floats, into the river. A boat tied up near the dredge. (Note: the only sound is essentially "wild.")
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States. A man drives his Ford Mustang convertible car across a bridge over a river and reaches the entrance gate of the air station which is headquarters for the Naval Air Training Command. Guard at entrance gate shows the way. Four aircraft of the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team are shown performing aerial maneuvers.. Man views the USS Lexington (CV-16) naval aircraft carrier at dock. Several recent college graduates, all participants in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate program (AOC) check-in to start the program and greet each other. Officer teaches Principles of leadership in class using an overhead projector. Naval aviation students march and exercise under supervision. They play football. They perform physical exercise drills. A participant struggles with situps. Close-up of the face of a commanding officer drill instructor pushing him along. Naval band plays music. Personnel march in uniform in graduation ceremony after the 11 week program. Officer presents graduation degree one by one to them. Four U.S. Navy North American T-28 Trojan aircraft fly over the field in formation. African American commissioned officer and his wife walk up to their apartment door, off-base, carrying grocery bags. Other graduates carry luggage to Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) and arrange photographs of women on a table and talk. Low aerial view approaching flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Commissioned officers on board the carrier sit at dinner table and talk.
Airbase and houses damaged due to Russian rocket shelling in Vietnam. Jet planes halt at Da Nang Air Base. Soldiers watch a damaged military building with broken roof. People stand in street and watch damaged window of the building. People stand besides ruins of houses. Women observe ruins. A woman cooks while another sits besides her. A man sprinkles water. Children and people stand besides covered dead bodies. A woman comes and touches a body, sits and cry while others watch. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Air Force Firefighters spray foam on burning McDonnell-Douglas RF-4C-30-MC Phantom Reconnaissance jet aircraft, serial number 66-0411, that crashed during attempted landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin Texas. The aircraft on a routine night mission hit a power line and crashed into a house during its landing approach. The house can be seen in background behind the flaming wreckage of the RF-4C. Although the two aircrew were killed, the narrator states the eight residents of the house were miraculously unhurt.
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