Activities of Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan of U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) who flies the same C-47 Skytrain aircraft from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War that he had flown during World War II in Africa and Asia. Colonel Flanagan and a copilot at the controls of the C-47D Skytrain transport plane. They talk to each other. Colonel Flanagan works on throttle knobs and switches on an instrument panel.
Air strike on Viet Cong targets in June 1965. Three AI-1E skyraiders flying in synchronization. View of pilot in the cockpit. 8 June 1965. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft drops two Mark 82 (Mk.82) hign-drag bombs at enemy base camp. The bombs descend and explode in woods defoliated by agent orange. Smoke rises from previous bombs near Thuan Bien on 1st September.
First scene shows U.S. marines descending rope net ladder from side of the USS Pickaway (APA-222) in waters off Da Nang, South Vietnam. Next, marines of 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment are seen hitting the beach at Danang, from her Higgins boats on 7 July,1965. Scene shifts to U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying U.S. army troops who are photographed as they step from the aircraft. Trucks carrying some of these soldiers drive along a road in South Vietnam. Officer confer over tactical map of an area. Vietnamese civilian refugees are seen struggling to depart. Small Vietnamese children at a school or other institution, are photographed as they line up and wash themselves before eating a meal. Smallest children are seated in high chairs. President Johnson seen saying "I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle." Pictures of young American men and women are shown in various places and circumstances. A young couple. A man in cowboy hat. A factory worker. A young man laughing. a steel worker on an I beam during construction of a high rise building. Young people assembled at some sort of occasion. Images of Chinese Chairman, Mao Zedong, and Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Bow of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier cutting the water, and then broad view of entire ship, the USS Randolph (CV-15). (Note: the Randolph played no role in the Vietnam War.) Aircraft being catapulted from a carrier. USAF B-52 bombers dropping bombs in Arc Light missions over Vietnam. Bombs exploding on the ground. U.S. Marines operating a type of landing craft tracked. Troops deploying from a landing craft at a beach. American troops making their way through jungles. Scene reverts back to President Johnson still speaking (July 28, 1965).
The strafing of the target areas in Vietnam by the United States Air Force. The USAF strafes the target area during Operation Rolling Thunder. Men are on the flight deck of a carrier deck. An aircraft goes in for a dive on the Than Hoa bridge. The aircraft turns around. A Bullpup Missile streaks down towards the bridge. The aircraft moves towards the bridge for an attack with Bullpups. A Bullpup hits the center of the bridge and explodes. (Vietnam War period).
Recreational facilities like library, available to personnel at Tuy Hoa airbase in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Sign board outside a building reads: 'Base Library'. Interior of the library. U.S. Airmen seated at desk. They read books and newspaper. One of the airman selects a book from the book shelf and checks it out. He comes to the librarian and the librarian issues him the book. He comes out of the library. Entrance of the base library.
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