A film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. Wounded American soldiers sleep in beds aboard U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft. A soldier buttons up his shirt. Another soldier lying in bed as he talks about his injury. Nurses tend patients. A nurse gives a massage to a soldier. Pilot at controls in the cockpit. Aircraft lands and nurses get off the plane.
Washington DC Metropolitan Police arrest Vietnam War protestors during the May Day Protests in 1971. Sit-in protesters at The Department of Justice with sign reading, “FREE AMERICA’S POLITICAL PRISONERS”. Police officer with a megaphone speaks to anti-war protesters. Sign above protesters reads, “TRY WAR CRIMINALS NOT WAR RESISTERS”. Policeman arrests a woman raising her fist. Policemen escort and drag protesters to buses. A female protester, holding a child, sits alone in front of the doors of the Department of Justice. Hippie protesters cheer as one of them gets arrested by the police. A hippie man is arrested by the police. Police in front of the United States Department of Justice building (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20530) watching protestors. Hippies hold fists in the air while singing during sit-in protest in front of the Department of Justice. Policemen arrest protesters one by one, utilizing field arrest reports on the scene. An African American in dispute with a group of policemen arresting him. Young man with fist raised sitting on top of column during Department of Justice protest while TV cameraman films him. Southern Christian leaders are filmed by TV crews as they join in the protest. Protesters singing and sitting, some wearing symbolic blindfolds. African American policemen observe protestors. Hippies sing, "we shall not be moved." Metropolitan Police Department police arrest protestors. An African American policeman writes a field arrest report. A man with hands on his head during his arrest while photo journalist takes pictures Map of the Washington DC area, with the West Potomac Park labeled. Aerial view of the West Potomac Park near the Potomac River. Map of the North Washington DC area, with Rock Creek Park labeled. 1971 May Day hippie protesters camping in West Potomac Park. Close up of May Day protest manual with words in bold, "Every participant should bring a transistor radio."
A USAAF B-17F is seen where it crash-landed in the desert near Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, on February 18, 1943, in World War 2. The film was shot some time later when salvage operations are underway including removal of engines. As the camera pans around the plane, a bent propeller is seen in the sand. The tail number 25326 is seen, identifying it as Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, 42-5326, of the 351st Bombardment Group, 511th Bomb Squadron, with home base at Biggs Field. The camera focuses on the plane's empennage.
B-52Ds in SEA. Truck towing bomb bay rack on dolly pulling up beside B-52D at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Men pushing empty bomb rack dolly away from B-52D. Men pushing a dolly loaded with bomb racks and another with a machine.
A truck tractor slowly pulls a rack of M117 General Purpose Bombs, on a low trailer, to a munitions storage area in the U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The driver gets out and disconnects the trailer from the truck. Change of scene shows Thai workers cleaning inside the rear parts of M117 bombs sitting on their tail fins. They each wear hats or other headgear to protect from the sun. Closeup of one wearing turban style head protection. Closeup of bomb casing interior, as one of the Thai men works on it View of many bomb casings on their tail fins, lined up at a pickup point. A truck pulling bomb trailers pulls into place, near the line of bomb casings. Then another truck pulling a flat bed trailer filled with bombs pulls up at another driveway. Its driver gets out and walks away. Next, the line of bomb casings is seen sitting alone in the facility, when a yellow vehicle pulls into one lane and tractor truck pulling a loaded flatbed trailer pulls into another lane of the facility.
View at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Pre-loaded bomb racks are tug pulled by transport vehicles toward a B-52 F bomber aircraft. Pre-loaded racks of Mk 82 bombs are loaded into bomb bay of B-52 F aircraft by airmen. MJ-1 loading Mk 82 bombs on B-52 F wing cluster rack.
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