U.S. Air Force HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters carrying U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron and Montagnard paratroopers over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An HH-3E drops paratroopers.
U.S. Air Force CH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters carrying U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron and Montagnard paratroopers over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of an CH-3E in flight. Rotors of the CH-3E turning.
U.S. Air Force HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters carrying U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron and Montagnard paratroopers over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of an HH-3E flying low over a Vietnamese jungle. An HH-3E drops paratroopers on cable.
U.S. Air Force HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters carrying U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron and Montagnard paratroopers over Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Interiors of an HH-3E shows a pilot at controls. View of another HH-3E in flight. A jumpmaster inspects the paratroopers before they board the HH-3E.
Medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured United States soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An air ambulance UH-1 Huey helicopter arrives at a landing zone and U.S. Army soldiers run towards it. Wounded being unloaded from the helicopter. A soldier speaks on wireless. Wounded being loaded onto an ambulance. Wounded on litters being unloaded from helicopters and loaded onto an ambulance van. Pilot in the cockpit of the helicopter. A soldier places a box onto a jeep.
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
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