Opening of the new Modular Dining Hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. USAF Brigadier General Richard M Hoban, Colonel Leonard S Dysinger, and Colonel Raleigh D Smith talking with mess sergeants in center of the dining room, as airmen sit at tables eating a meal. Brigadier General Hoban and personnel in serving line. Thai women working behind steam table and in the "Clipper".
USAF Modular dining hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield, Thailand. Thai women working in "Clipper" cleaning remnants from plates and stacking them in bins for washing machines. One woman poses while sorting silverware, and smiles broadly. Thai woman serves ice cream to airmen at dessert station in the dining hall. Women serving spaghetti and tomato sauce to airmen. A Thai man cooking chicken in the kitchen. Women peeling carrots and preparing a platter of food.
USAF personnel eat in modular dining hall at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. Dining hall is filled with U.S. Airmen patrons, seated at tables during mealtime.Thai women in orange uniforms are busing the tables. Several U.S. Airmen stand holding trays in the serving line.They proceed through the line taking food items along the way. Dining hall workers serve them hot items from steam tables.A Thai woman fills glasses with ice and water.
Film begins showing explosions from bombs in Malta from high flying Axis warplanes during World War 2. They raise huge columns of smoke. Remainder of the film shows scenes of destruction wrought by the bombing that eased in 1942. A bombed out church with only skeletal roofing left. People walking on a street between rows of rubble. A horse and carriage is the only other means of transportation seen. Empty walls of a destroyed buildings with rubble filling the area between them. Views from interior of a church looking out through a huge holes in its walls. Camera pans down from rubble covered high altar in a church, to a priest conducting mass at a make shift altar. Worshipers occupy chairs set up in front of the piles of rubble. Major building with only its front wall intact. A horse and carriage conveying passengers amidst pedestrians walking between rubble lined street. Camera pans across part of city to capture explosions from more bombs.
A USAAF B-26 bomber being armed during World War 2. A wheeled bomb dolly loaded with 500 pound bombs is parked next to a B-26 aircraft. Four armorers, using special handles, slide one of the bombs off the carrier and move it under the aircraft. Another crew also removes a bomb from the carrier. Next scene shows armorers inserting fuzes in several bombs on the ground under the aircraft bomb bay. View, through operations building window, of a P-38 fighter plane parked in the grass, and B-26 bombers taxiing past it in the background. A P-38 fighter aircraft viewed almost head-on as it comes in for a landing. A formation of B-26 bombers overhead.
2ND LT. W.G. ERKAMP. 385TH SQ. 364TH FG. engages German FW-190, blows part of aircraft away. German pilot bails out. Chute not visible. Also engages an ME-109. German pilot bails out. Parachute visible descending.
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