Preflight and post flight activities at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Four F-104C Starfighter aircraft taxi towards runway for take off. The pilot disembarks from the cockpit of F-104C and walks with another pilot. F-104C Starfighter being pushed into revetment by ground crew.
Preflight and post flight activities at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Grumman HU-16B Albatross parked on ground. Crew members perform post flight inspection. Napalm tanks, storage drums and pasteurized containers in munition storage area. A sign on Napalm tank reads 'Hanoi B-B-Q Spacial From Us To Them Gooks'.
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. A soldier holds up red panties with 'Merry Christmas' written on it. A soldier holds up a box with a small tree on it. Gifts are taken out of an ammunition box. A soldier places a cardboard star on a tree. Another soldier squirts shaving cream on the branches. A chaplain on a make shift altar near a bunker. The soldiers listen to the chaplain. Two soldiers sit near a 50 caliber machine gun. One soldier holds up the box with the Christmas tree on it. The other man holds up the red panties. A soldier leans against sandbags and writes a letter. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. A U.S. sentry walks past a barbed wire fence. A puppy follows him. The sun sets behind tents in the background. The sentry pets the puppy. The puppy is on the sandbags of an emplacement. The sentry walks to his post. He looks out over the barbed wire fence. (Vietnam War period).
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Military Police and Security Police form a cordon taking one arm's distance and salute. Insignia of the U.S. Air Force 12th Tactical Fighter Wing. Aircraft ramp reads 'Welcome to Cam Ranh Bay'. Ramp being pushed out to the United States Air Force aircraft VC-137B. President Johnson wearing tan gabardine zipper jacket bearing the gold seal of the President and General William Wallace Momyer alighting. The President Shakes hands with the Vice President of Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky, U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker and General William C. Westmoreland. He talks to William C. Westmoreland. The President and Nguyen Cao Ky leave the air base in a car.
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 463L loader rolls up to the a United States Ari Force Lockheed C-130E Hercules aircraft at the Chu Lai Air Base. Pallet, with drugged elephant wrapped in cargo net and secured with straps, being unloaded from the aircraft onto the loader. The loader being driven away. Soldiers walk on the air base. A United States Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53A Sea Stallion flies in toward the loader.. The aircraft flies away with elephant on the pallet, suspended underneath.
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