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Thai workers tag tail assemblies of M-117 bombs in munitions storage area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand
Opening shows a large paved area filled with M117 General Purpose Bomb casings standing on their tail fins.Thai workers are tagging them. Camera pans over the workers as they tag the bomb tail assembly casings. Another view from the side, showing the rows of bomb casings and Thai workers. Scene shifts to some M117 bomb casings standing on tail fins in a shipping depot. A yellow vehicle and a tractor truck with a loaded flat bed trailer pull into separate lanes of the depot. The same event is seen from a different perspective.
Interiors of Radar Defense and Aircraft Control Facility Station at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base.
Air Chief Marshal Chandrubsksa and United States Major General Stilwell inside the radar defense and aircraft control facility station. Both talking to a Royal Thai Air Force sergeant who is seated at radarscope. AP in front of the concrete radar facility. Colonel Robin Olds talking to Air Chief Marshal Chandrubsksa. View of U.S. Air Force and Royal Thai Air Force personnel in background. Officers around buffet table under tent at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base.
Modified C-135 aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) serve as "Combat Lightning" aircraft in Vietnam War
Opening scene shows two U.S. Air Force F-105 Thunderchief aircraft taking off in pre-dawn from Vietnam on a bombing mission, in 1966, during the Vietnam War. Next, the F-105s are seen diving and dropping bombs that explode into fire and smoke on the ground. Closeup of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) KC-135 aircraft in flight. It has been modified to serve as as a "Combat Lightning" aircraft that serves as a communication link between the Tactical Air Reporting Center at Monkey Mountain, near Danang, Vietnam and ground radar, airborne radar and any U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam. KC-135 "Combat Lightning" crew members are seated in a briefing room at the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, in Thailand. A briefing officer explains their mission, using charts and a map labeled SECRET Noforn (no foreign access) showing Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin. The briefer points to an area in the Gulf, and sketches a figure eight, showing where and how the KC-135 should maneuver in a holding pattern during its mission. Crew members rise and leave at the end of the briefing. View of a Strategic Air Command EC-135L that arrived on May 29, 1967, along with another, to support 24 hour "Combat Lightning" operations. Ground crewman directs the EC-135L as it taxis out and then takes off, past a C-130 aircraft holding short of the active runway. (Narrator notes that by the end of July, 1967, there were four "Combat Lightning" C-135 aircraft operating at U-Tapao airfield.) View from above of EC-135L aircraft in flight above clouds, en route to its assigned location over the Gulf of Tonkin. View of radio operator inside the aircraft, who is in radio contact with U-Tapao and the aircraft they are going to relieve. View of map showing their destination figure-eight holding pattern. Radio operator establishes the same contacts used by the aircraft they are relieving, to assure continuity of communications. Remainder of the film contains extended views of the radio operator at his station and of the EC-135 aircraft in flight. Near the end, the crew's Armaments and Electronics Technician is seen pulling a piece of malfunctioning electronic gear from a rack and replacing it with a spare, stored nearby.
United States Air Force pilots board F-105 D aircraft at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand.
Deployment of United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing and departure of F-105 D aircraft from Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. United States Air Force pilots don cutaways and parachutes in a PE room. The crew chief places a parachute into an aircraft. A pilot climbs up the stairs of an F-105 D aircraft.
A United States Air Force officer briefs at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand..
Deployment of United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A United States Air Force officer briefs as he stands on a podium. An arm insignia reads ' Republic F-105 D '.
United States Air Force pilots being briefed at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War.
The United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force pilot wearing orange scarf, climbs ladder to cockpit of an F-105D aircraft, followed by the crew chief, who stands on upper part of the ladder. View of pilot doing preflight check of switches in the cockpit. Closeup of him donning his helmet and oxygen mask. A shoulder patch on his flight suit reads: "Vietnam, 100 Missions F-105." Scene shifts to another pilot doing a walk-around preflight inspection on his aircraft. He climbs ladder to his cockpit. Next scene shows pilots seated in a briefing room. Several converse. Closeup of one pilot with 333rd Fighter Squadron (Lancers) patch on his flight suit. Insignia of the 333rd and 44th fighter squadrons are displayed on the back wall of the briefing room. Closeup from side of seated pilots. One smokes a cigarette. Briefing officer is seen at a podium.
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