U.S. 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division base camp operations in Phu Bai near Hue, Vietnam. Soldiers set up an antenna at a command post. Sandbags and tents in the background. Soldiers set up poles. Soldiers connect poles. Soldier attacks at a cable with an instrument. (Vietnam War period. This camp was later named Camp Eagle in March 1969).
A U.S. Army Chaplain on a field at the Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Chaplain Angelo Liteky walks across rice paddies with soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry. He enters a camp area. Pup tents are scattered in the area. A soldier and the Chaplain look at captured Vietcong equipment.
American soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade assembling for a memorial service at Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers line up in formation, after placing their helmets on the ground beside them. Chaplain Captain Angelo Liteky conducts a memorial ceremony on the field. Soldiers listen to him and pray together the Lord's Prayer. An honor guard moves into position and fires a three gun salute. The Chaplain and the soldiers salute.
Soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade seated on the field at Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam. U.S. Army Chaplain Captain Angelo Liteky is concluding the Eucharist (Communion) using a cardboard box for an altar. He finishes the ceremony, drinks the wine from the chalice and covers it. Scene shifts to the Chaplain dispensing communion wafers to Army soldier communicants. Another view of Chaplain Liteky completing Communion service at makeshift altar. He then reads from an altar card, crosses himself, and blesses the gathering of Army soldiers, several of whom then return pamphlets they used to follow and participate in the Mass. (Vietnam War period).
United States and South Vietnamese soldiers defend Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers in a helicopter in flight. A soldiers talks over the radio receiver. Another mans a machine gun. Aerial view of the area below. The pilot in the cockpit. Black smoke rising from enemy rocket explosion in residential area near the Kontum airfield. U.S. FSB (Fire Support Base) November, with enemy artillery rounds exploding in rice paddies near the base. The machine gun barrel and ammunition belt. A South Vietnamese soldier alongside a U.S. gunner firing M-16 rifle towards the ground. Explosions in enemy positions. A South Vietnamese officer questions Montagnard refugees on a road. U.S. soldiers stand by and watch.
Opening scene shows a message being received on a teletype machine from the U.S. 3rd Air Division. Two Air Force officers are seen seated at desks. One is labeled "Ops-Plans." The on duty operations officer passes on the message to his staff where it goes through operation, operation planning, maintenance, ordinance and armament. Technicians preparing the guns and loading ordnance for the mission, on a B-52 aircraft. Air crew members ate seen assembled in their briefing room, Glimpse of the mission briefing officer at a podium. View of wristwatch as narrator speaks of navigators synchronizing their watches. A B-52 crew stepping from their crew bus as they arrive at their aircraft. As other crew member climb aboard the plane, their aircraft commander reviews the aircraft status, as reflected on its Form 781, with the aircraft crew chief. Crew members then begins a pre-flight walk-around inspection, starting with the landing gear and wheel wells. The last of the crew enter the aircraft via a bottom hatch, which a ground crewman then fastens from the outside. Inside, crew members are seen going through pre-flight check lists at their respective duty stations. Back at the Command Post, the duty controller receives the order via secure telephone, from 3rd Air Division headquarters, to execute the mission. He informs the Aircraft Commander and the B-52 starts its engines. View of throttles being pushed forward in the cockpit, as the aircraft begins takeoff. View from ground as the B-52 takes off and flies overhead. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in the cockpit wearing helmet and oxygen mask. Hand of radar observer is seen as he checks out his equipment. Aerial closeup of a B-52 in flight. View of radar observer placing the aircraft controls in so-called "Second Station," with the autopilot controlled by the bombing navigation computer. Inflight closeup of B-52 opening its bomb bay doors and starting to drop bombs. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in cockpit and of B-52 aircraft in flight, as narrator states they are returning to U-Tapao Airbase,or to Guam. The aircraft in the mission are seen landing back at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, where other B-52s are parked on the ramp. They taxi to their parking places and crew members board buses back to operations for a mission debriefing.
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