United States Air Force pickup truck leads a C-141A 'Starlifter' that taxis to a halt. U.S. Air Force signalman signals the aircraft to a halt. United States Air Force unit personnel get off the plane. Unit personnel board buses. Personnel get off the United States Air Force blue colored buses. (Vietnam War period).
Aerial view of a small United States air strip in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force Fairchild C-123 Provider aircraft lands on a tiny airstrip. Vietnamese boys sitting watch the aircraft land. United States Air Force and South Vietnamese soldiers unload supplies from aircraft. Views of captured North Vietnamese Vietcong rebel soldiers. A vietcong prisoner squatting. Soldiers tie up captured Vietcong rebels lying down on aircraft floor. Soldiers assist North Vietnamese prisoners of war (POW) with hands tied behind their backs to exit helicopter after landing. A United States aircraft drops crates of supplies and cattle in flight. Cow mooing is heard. An officer communicates through walkie talkie. Crate parachutes activate during descent. Soldiers in Jeep. A Vietnamese soldier inspect cattle in crate.
At Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base: General John Dale Ryan comes out of the barracks. View of sign 8th A AND E MAINT. General Ryan walks under TOC over which sign on arch reads ' YE WHO PASSETH THRU THESE PORTALS STAND TALL'. General Ryan with Colonel Robin Olds, Commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, leaving in car. General Ryan goes over to sleeping quarters in cantonment area. Boeing KC-135A taxis out and takes off to right.
A follow-me jeep drives over a parking space on the ramp at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, next to several parked RF-4Cs. The RF-4C following the jeep pulls into the parking space and shuts down. Ground crewmen place chocks under the wheels and install landing gear pins. Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) open canopies. They complete post-flight checklists and talk with crew chief. An airman downloads camera equipment from the airplane.
Ground crewmen performing routine maintenance on an RF-4C aircraft on the flight line at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base. An RF-4C taxis into parking place with canopies open. Crew chief and Pilot discuss something. The Pilot and Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) climb out of the aircraft and converse with ground crewmen and a Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain, on the ramp. Pilot fills out Form 1.
A straight-wing Republic F-84E Thunderjet of the USAF 86th Fighter-Bomber Wing taxis onto the active runway for takeoff, at Neubiberg Air Base , near Munich, Germany. The Wing's bold checkerboard markings on tail, nose and tip tanks are clearly visible. The aircraft's tail number is: 49-2254, and it belongs to the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron..
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