Opening slate reads: "Operation Rio Grande" and shows partial date of "11-2....." (The complete date is November 20-27, 1967, when this Search and Destroy mission was launched by the U.S. Marines 5th and 7th Brigades with South Vietnamese forces support during the Vietnam War.) A U.S. Marine jet aircraft dives low and drops a bomb on a Viet Cong position. View from overflying CH-46A helicopter of others maneuvering low over rice paddies, where smoke rises from some small fires, possibly from helicopter M60 machine gun fire. Helicopters parked with rotors turning on a large open field. Helicopters maneuvering low above the ground, and then climbing and departing the area.
Air Base construction project by Vietnamese workers at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Vietnamese coat and wrap pipe. They weld pipes. Vietnamese works with machine. Mobile crane carries and brings the steel plates. They place section of steel plates on base of fuel tank under construction. Vietnamese attach nuts bolts on steel plates.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. A USAF Base in Vietnam. A sandbag enclosure behind a barb wire fence. Aircraft parked on an airstrip in the background. A military jeep approaches and halts at the post. The jeep moves onto the next post. The guard with a rifle. The officer driving the jeep talks to the guard and points in the direction to his left. The guard in a helmet keeps a watch. Barb wire fence. USAF personnel in a military jeep. A Staff Sergeant drives, while an airman on the passenger seat mans a machine gun. An airman climbs up a lookout tower. An aircraft flies overhead. (Vietnam War period).
Aircraft land at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. Camouflaged Douglas C-47 Skytrain military transport taxis and makes take off run. Cessna O-1E lands. Camouflaged USAF C-130E lands. VNAF F-5A lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds makes take off runs. U.S. army U-8D lands. North American Jet Fighter aircraft F-100Ds land. View of USAF C-7A landing. USAF DC-130A lands. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan flies a C-47 Skytrain aircraft from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The C-47D taxis and takes off. The C-47D in flight and makes a landing approach over a runway.
U.S. 31st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) Lieutenant Colonel Preston S. Flanagan flies a C-47 Skytrain aircraft from Tuy Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The C-47D taxis on a runway, in flight and lands. A U.S. officer poses.
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