Activities of USAF (United States Air Force) 12th Air Police Security Squadron members at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. An AP (Air Policeman) watches Vietnamese people getting down from a truck at a checkpoint. Vietnamese people go through a check station. The truck pulls away. Vietnamese women search other Vietnamese women at the check point as the AP watches. Vietnamese people get on the truck and the truck pulls away.
Activities of USAF (United States Air Force) 12th Air Police Security Squadron members at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A trailer truck loaded with Vietnamese workers arrive at the MYCA checkpoint in morning. Workers get off the trailer and walk to the checkpoint. APs (Air Policemen) watch the workers getting off the truck. The empty truck pulls away. The workers get on the truck. The loaded truck pulls away.
The United States 355th Tactical Fighter Wing at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force pilot wearing orange scarf, climbs ladder to cockpit of an F-105D aircraft, followed by the crew chief, who stands on upper part of the ladder. View of pilot doing preflight check of switches in the cockpit. Closeup of him donning his helmet and oxygen mask. A shoulder patch on his flight suit reads: "Vietnam, 100 Missions F-105." Scene shifts to another pilot doing a walk-around preflight inspection on his aircraft. He climbs ladder to his cockpit. Next scene shows pilots seated in a briefing room. Several converse. Closeup of one pilot with 333rd Fighter Squadron (Lancers) patch on his flight suit. Insignia of the 333rd and 44th fighter squadrons are displayed on the back wall of the briefing room. Closeup from side of seated pilots. One smokes a cigarette. Briefing officer is seen at a podium.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF airmen at the Binh Thuy Air Base near the city of Can Tho in Vietnam. U.S. aircraft taxis and turns on the runway. A sandbag bunker. An aircraft passes overhead. An airman works on the engine of a U.S. aircraft parked on the runway. A Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota parked in the background. Airmen near a sandbag bunker. A sign behind them reads: '22nd TASS Flight Line Maint.' A Tech sergeant talks on the radio. Airmen including Airmen Second Class and Airmen First Class look on. A fire extinguisher on the road. A barrack in the background. Vietnamese Air Force Fin Flash flag on a pole. The fluttering flag. A sign reads: 'Khong Boan 74 - 74th Wing Headquarters'. (Vietnam War period).
A Forward Air Controller (FAC) helps a United States Air Force pilot don a flight suit at the An Khe Air Base in Vietnam. Pilot checks map and enters the cockpit of O-1E aircraft. O-1E taxis down flight line and then parks under directions of the FAC. (Vietnam War period).
United States Air Force General Jack J. Catton on a walking tour of Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam. A sign reads 'United States Air Force Weather station'. A man at the weather station with a weather balloon. He looks up at the sky and then releases the balloon. A military police jeep with an officer at the steering. Men at the weather station. A man takes down notes on a paper. An anemometer and a wind direction indicator on a pole. (Vietnam War period).
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