General activities at Eglin Field show the preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. A sign reads 'Headquarters Air Crops Proving Ground, Eglin Field, Florida'. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers parked on the Eglin Air Force Base. Insignia of the United States Army Air Forces. A crewman on a tug. Two pilots talk and one of them drinks. Crewmen stand in a group. U.S. pilot at controls. A propeller rotates. Another pilot looks out from the window of a B-25. Crewmen stand around the B-25 and one of them works under the wing. A pilot in the cockpit. Two crewmen stand near a ladder. A pilot in the cockpit.
Aerial views of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Atlas - the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile, erected in front of the building. USAF written on the missile. Cars parked near the building. Air Force personnel near the missile.
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. The soldiers walk on road through a village. They walk past water. Aerial view of UH-1D helicopters from pilots cabin. Rice paddies flooded with water. Soldiers walk through rice paddies. Helicopter in low flight. Soldiers get off from hovering UH-1D helicopter into flooded water of rice paddies. Silhouettes of soldiers walk in flooded paddies. Soldiers swim and bathe in channel and cross it. Some soldiers put baggage on rubber air mattresses and swim with it tied to a rope. Soldiers wear cloth, rest and dry out. Soldier checks and cleans his M-16rifle. Soldiers use rope to guide themselves across the deep water on their air mattresses. (Vietnam War period).
Tactical Communications, Operation Junction City at War Zone-C in South Vietnam. U.S. soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade in action. Four U.S. UH-1D medical helicopters in flight. Helicopters land besides signal smoke. Soldiers board the helicopter and take off. Soldier at doorway of helicopter. Air to air view of helicopters. Smoke rises from terrain. Helicopter lands on strip. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force radar site at Monkey Mountain in Vietnam. Surveillance and height finding radar on top of buildings at Monkey mountain. Radar on top of a building rotates. Another radar on building top with hills in the background. Inside the radar sit United states Air Force personnel marks points on a transparent plotting board as other personnel work on controls in the background. (Vietnam War period).
United States conducts air strike on targets in south Vietnam during Vietnam War. Small boats at rivers edge in area of pier. Huge explosion goes off at river edge of pier and small boats appear to be a direct hit. Another huge explosion goes off in an area of small boats along river's edge. Bomb crater below at river's edge, smoke rises from the river. Out over water and some of the peninsula sticking into water. A bomb explodes along the edge of a canal. A-1H in flight. Fighting Air Command's (FAC) type aircraft pulling up in background, flying very low, bomb heads towards shoreline of canal and explodes. A-1H in flight in the background. Bomb being released from the aircraft and hits shoreline of the canal resulting in an explosion. A-1H in flight. Napalm explodes along the shoreline resulting in fire. A-1H in flight over target area.
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