Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. During Operation Pershing bomb units are released from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Roy H Boone of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Smoke rises due to explosions. Aerial view of a wooded area.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of SUU-14/A dispensers and BLU-3/B bomblets released from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Major Chamberlin of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. The bombs explode on storage structures in heavy foliage.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of M97 bomblets released from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Sinnott of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Bomb explosions over a target.
Air strike missions in the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Aerial view of military structures and trenches as seen from a United States Air Force (USAF) A-1E Skyraider bomber aircraft piloted by Sinnott of U.S. 1st Air Commando Squadron. Aerial view of smoking targets. A bomb explosion. Aerial view of trees and the ground.
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson presents Medals of Honor to U.S. Army men at the Pentagon in Virginia, United States for their services in the Vietnam War. U.S. Under Secretary of the Air Force Townsend Hoopes reads a citation at a microphones in the inner court of the Pentagon. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler and U.S. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford stand in the background. President Johnson places the Medal of Honor around the neck of U.S. Air Force Captain Gerald O. Young. The President talks and poses for pictures with four men who won the Medal of Honor including U.S. Army Specialist 5 Charles Hagemeister, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Richard Pittman, U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate First Class James Williams and U.S. Air Force Captain Gerald Young. President Johnson and Secretary Clifford walk through the crowd and greet the families of men who won the Medal of Honor.
United States airlift of Vietnamese refugees during the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, in April and May 1975. Vietnamese refugees clog roads as the walk south carrying their possessions. Some are seen leaving buses and boarding by the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft of the Military Airlift Command (MAC), at Tan Son Nhut airfield (Than Son Nhat International Airport, Trường Sơn, Phường 2, Tân Bình, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam) in Saigon, Vietnam. Numerous boats arriving at southern port in Vietnam, carrying refugees. A MAC C-141 taking off with refugees, behind a Pan American World Airways, Boeing 747 jet airplane transport, contracted by MAC to provide additional airlift. A U.S. airman assisting refugees in the airport lounge. Glimpse of a MAC C-141 in flight. Refugees crowded, sitting on the floors, in the airport in the airport terminal.
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