K D Munro working in emergency generator room of USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Aircraft Carrier of the U.S. Navy, checking gauzes faces panels with various gauzes. Munro checking gauzes, writing down information. Knob on dial being changed. Hand moves in and out of scene to check temperatures. Face of Munro while checking dials and gauzes. Gauzes showing black and white needle. Gauze with black and white needle somewhat apart. Fahrenheit with lubricant oil from engine. Panel board containing seven gauzes, varied sizes. Looking down over hand of Munro as he writes information into a log sheet. General view of flight deck area, showing a DC firefighting crew. Pouring water on the plane. Some planes burning in the background. Fire is now contained on the after part of the flight deck. DD is alongside. Port side aft assisting the deck crew in fighting the fire. Large amount of smoke still rises from the flight deck area in the background at port side. Tilly crane is seen moving across the deck, comes to a stop. UH-2A aircraft on deck. SH-3A helicopter coming in for a landing. It touches down. Men running to the side of the helicopter. Firefighters fighting the fire. Large group of mixed aircraft parked in the safety area. DC crews, attempting to put out the fire along the aircraft on the after part of the flight deck. Several view of CH-2A and SH-3A and CH-53A helicopters touching down on the flight deck. Large groups of men running up to the helicopters.
Flight deck gas crewman pulls gas hose on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin. He gases one of the aircrafts. Midshipman 1st class Robert S. Schreiber under the guidance of Lollyd E. Webber observes refueling operation. The two of them chat as gas crewman gases a fuel tank under the wing of an aircraft. Schreiber being instructed on gas fuel pumps by Lollyd. Midshipman and Lollyd under A-4E aircraft as it gets refueled.
Midshipman William J. Kane being instructed about duties of signalmen by Harold Albritton,a signalmen on board a United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard. Kane looks on as signalmen puts a cover on signal light. Two signalmen take out signal flags from a bag and the hoist being hauled down. Signal man instructs Kane on use of a long glass. A Pilot Landing Aid Television System (PLAT) shows A-4E aircraft taking off on board Bon Home Richard.
Midshipman 1st class Jerry Watson being instructed by Charles E. Ward about the use and functions of PLAT (Pilot Landing Aid Television System) camera on board United States Navy ship Bon Homme Richard in Gulf of Tonkin. Ward piers through the eye piece of the camera and swings it around. On the flight deck of the ship A-1H takes off while A-4C makes an arrested landing.
Simulation of activities that took place during Tonkin Gulf Incident during 2-5 August 1964. The USS Turner Joy (DD-951) underway at sea. Ship's Captain, Commander Robert Chauncey Barnhart Jr., USN, standing with a telephone talker. Both wear helmets. Barnhart scans the horizon with a pair of binoculars. The telephone talker is wearing earphones. Operation's Officer Lieutenant J. Palmer, also wearing helmet, looks through the sighting area on pelorus and calls out bearings.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Turner Joy (DD- 951) at sea. A signalman sends a message through a signal light aboard the destroyer.. He sends up a hoist of signal flags from a flag bag.
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