Views from tail camera of a USAF A-1E aircraft strafing enemy targets at low altitude amidst groves of coconut trees. White smoke rising from the ground, behind the aircraft. The A-1E is flying at tree-top level. Simple structures are seen, occasionally, amongst the trees. Exploding White phosphorus bombs and fires erupting from napalm, seen in the wake of the aircraft. More huts seen as the aircraft exits the coconut plantation and passes over a river bank. Fires burning in the background. The A-1E climbs out over the river. (Note: The A1E aircraft on this mission is believed to be from the 1st Air Commando Squadron, operating out of Bien Hoa Air Base.)
Aircraft AC-47 takes off from runway at Bein Hoa Air Base. AC-47 in flight. Crewmen place parachute flares in flare rack aboard AC-47.
Air attack in Vietnam during Vietnam War. United States Air Force (USAF) F-100 Super Sabre fighter aircraft piloted by Captain Conway in flight over grasslands. Aircraft circles over rising smoke after strafing in DaNang. United States Navy A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Captain Shag drops napalm bombs in Bien Hoa,Phuoc Tuy Province.
Air attack in Vietnam during Vietnam War. United States Navy A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Major Reilly in flight over village in Bien Hoa,Can Tho. Smoke column rises from General Purpose (GP) bomb blasts on village and edge of canal during strafing run. Smoke rises from bomb hits on village Mountains in the background.
Activities of Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan of U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) who flies the same C-47 from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War that he had flown during World War II in Africa and Asia. The C-47D Skytrain transport plane parked in a revetment at Tuy Hoa Air Base. No. 1 engine of the aircraft starts up. A man signals to the pilot. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a runway and in flight over the air base.
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).
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