Two mid-grade U.S. Navy aviation officers, one in a tropical pith helmet and the other in a side cap, discuss a 50 caliber machine gun with a Navy aviation Commodore, who handles the weapon. The scene is aboard a U.S. ship during World War 2.
Views of several different crash sites at U.S. Naval bases in World War 2. Firefighter in protective suit directs stream of foam on smoldering wreckage of what appears to be a crashed low wing single engine monoplane. Several sailors and an officer also help and are seen putting out the last remaining flames. An armed marine guard watches over destroyed parts of an engine, propeller and cowling sitting in a field. In change of scene, an officer directs a firefighter in protective gear as he hoses foam on the wreckage of a larger crashed aircraft. Shallow hole in ground is shown. Another scene shows sailors working around numerous pieces of aircraft wreckage laid out on the ground. Next sequence shows sailors running toward a smoking crash site.A vehicle with flag on it's bumper is parked nearby. Sailors direct hoses on the wreckage and smoke rises from it. Armed Marines walk about the area. The smoldering wreckage indicates this was a relatively small aircraft. In final scene, firefighters in protective gear, without helmets, direct hoses on another crash site. Flames persist.
Plane's Captain and a sailor check oil on engines of a U.S. Navy PBY Catalina amphibian before starting during World War 2. Plane Captain and sailor turn props through by hand in preparation for starting. Engines started on PBY-5 Catalina. This sequence is repeated from different angle. It taxis across the hard ramp, past a sandbagged antiaircraft gun emplacement. The aircraft proceeds down a ramp into the water, where it continues taxiing slowly. In next sequence, it is seen returning again.
Two ordnance men stand at bomb elevator aboard USS Constellation in North Vietnam. The elevator comes to flight deck level with bombs on a bomb cart. Ordnance men, one backing off with a bomb cart loaded with bombs. Man walks backwards over flight deck with two bombs on a bomb cart. AO backs off elevator with two bombs on a bomb cart. He wheels the cart over flight deck toward the aircraft. Bull pup attached under wing of an A-4C plane. A man in red shirt off to left and other men under wing of aircraft. The man in red shirt pulls on a bomb cart. Three bombs on pylon under A-4C. Bomb carts on flight area next to island ready for loading aboard aircraft. AO wheels two bombs. Red shirt man under wing of an aircraft. AO works with two bombs. Bombs and rockets on pylon. Men work around aircraft F4B, getting it ready for flight. Box on bomb cart loaded with fuses. AO wheels box. Two AO hoist up a section of the rocket pod and secure it to the rack. AO wheels up two bombs. AO works around under wing of aircraft. AO with his red shirt tied around his waist, working over after section of port engine. Flight deck area shows tractors moving about. Two F-4B planes stationary in the background. A-3B in the background. AO with a belt of 2Omm ammo walks.
U.S. 2D Battalion 503D Infantry 173D Airborne Brigade soldiers resting in jungle at 14 miles North of Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. Radio operator and officer check map. Soldiers advance through dense jungle. They run for cover as they come under attack from the Vietcong. Soldiers fire M-16 rifles, an M-60 machine gun and an M-79 grenade launcher in jungle. Soldiers on alert in jungle and as they cross clearing. Soldier fires machine gun. Soldiers rush across clearing. A soldier speaks over radio. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 2D Battalion 503D Infantry 173D Airborne Brigade soldiers set up a 81mm mortar in field in North of Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. (Vietnam War period).
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