Damage results from early morning enemy rocket attack at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. View of smoldering rubble and debris. Smoke rises from debris. Clean-up crews at work. View of slightly damaged ground support equipment.
Aircraft control operation at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. View of ground control approach personnel at work with radar screen in operation. They talk on headphones. A man speaks on headphone. Radar lights navigate. Ground control approach personnel work on control panel.
Flight line activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Parked A-1Es on steel matting. U.S. UH-1Bs and UH-1Ds take off from dirt field. Helicopters stir up a cloud of dust.
Flight line activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Ordnance crew uploads frag bombs onto A-1E pylon.
Explosions at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Flight line explosions as smoke rises in the background. USAF planes parked at the airfield. A plane lands in far background. (Note: This occurred on May 16, 1965, when a.B-57B aircraft exploded and set off a series of other explosions shown in this film.)
2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) prepares for a mission. Soldiers use camouflage stick on each other's faces. They wait next to helicopters. Bell UH-1D and Bell UH-1B "Huey" helicopters take off from Bien Hoa Air Force Base, South Vietnam. Ground view of a line of UH-1B helicopters in flight. Point of view shot inside helicopter from just behind the cockpit of a "Huey" shows a number of other helicopters flying ahead. Helicopters fly above green fields. (Vietnam War period).
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