Sign reads "Welcome to GAFB, elevation 504 feet" on the Base Operations Building at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. View of exterior or Operations Building. View of a radar screen is shown as narrator discusses expansion of radar network for gathering data. Improved radars are shown being used for routine observing and reporting. A Vertical Viewing Radar unit is shown at the air base. An Air Force weather technician records readings.
United States expands help to South Vietnam in their fight with the Vietcong rebels, early in the Vietnam War. United States Marine Corps land on the Vietnam shore. Landing crafts and amphibious vehicles reach the shore. Marines advance inwards from the shore. Military vehicles offload from the landing craft vehicles. U.S. helicopters patrols in search of Vietcong. South Vietnamese soldiers in jungles. Aerial view of U.S. Navy F-4J Phantom II fighter from the USS Enterprise in formation, with USS Enterprise aircraft carrier (CVN-65) visible below. Aerial view as U.S. aircraft attack ground targets. Explosions on ground as targets are hit by fighter jets. Aerial view of two U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers in flight, with bomb bay doors open and bombs raining down on targets. View of explosions on ground as bombs hit target.
A film based on ASR (Air Sea Rescue) by U.S. 8th Air Forces in European Theater during World War II. Formation of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in flight over Nazi German targets in Europe. Bombardier aboard B-17 sights target through Norden bomb sight. Bombs away view as bombs are dropped over targets. Smoke and flame billows up from explosions. More scenes of bombs being dropped from Allied aircraft and hitting targets below during a day time bombing mission. B-17s face attack from Nazi Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. Air to air combat and dogfight scenes. Gunners aboard B-17 firing at Nazi fighters. A B-17 with a damaged tail. A B-17 on fire goes down. Pilot of the same B-17 gives emergency signal. Crash landing of B-17 on water shows crew members preparing to ditch the B-17 at sea. Crew members on raft and aboard a boat heads for English coast. Door sign reads 'Air Sea Rescue Control Room'. Interior of room shows an officer plotting and planning the timings and air route the bomber squadron must follow from and to target area during the mission. Air Sea Rescue Liaison Sergeant of U.S. army talks over phone and alerts British Royal Navy officer. British Navy officer calls up an officer at the RAF (Royal Air Force) high speech launch base and assigns patrol areas. Royal Navy patrol boats head for assigned areas. Emergency rescue squadron is alerted by an officer. Pilots of rescue aircraft prepare to board P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. View of inflatable rafts and smoke floats carried on theThunderbolts.Flying boat PBY Catalina warms up on runway.
U.S. soldiers slogging through muddy fields, along dirt roads and through jungles. A soldier with vegetation on his helmet (comouflage) speaks into a radiophone. A few U.S. soldiers talk among themselves in camp. A tank firing artillery. A helicopter firing rockets. An air ambulance helicopter. Soldiers boarding a Pan American jetliner for transport to Hawaii, for Rest and Recuperation. Signs reading:" Aloha R&R Hawaii' and 'Aloha R&R Personnel' displayed at Fort Derussy, in Hawaii. A group of men and women in a long canoe, enjoying themselves during "R and R." An Army Chaplain conducts religious service for soldiers in the field. Sign on a building reads: Army Community Service Center." An officer speaks with a woman military dependent at the center. A sign lists myriad types of assistance available. Two soldiers talk. A soldier gets a hair cut. Little school children at a school in Vietnam. Vietnamese people following an American soldier across a bridge. American soldiers under fire and firing weapons from the air, from tanks, and from small arms. A soldier loads a grenade launcher. An Army doctor treats an injured Vietnamese girl. American flag flying in the breeze.
OH-6A helicopters fly over jungle terrain in Vietnam. Smoke grenades mark clearing. Air to air view of two OH-6A helicopters flying low over terrain. View of a jungle from speeding low flying helicopter. Smoke from signal grenade. Air to air view of AH-1G helicopters in flight and attacked area marked by smoke grenades. Air to air view of UH-1D helicopter in flight.
U.S. Marine Corps A-4 aircraft lands at Chu Lai, Vietnam. A Marine F-4 lands and deploys its drag chute.Two persons walk along the edge of runway as an F-4 lands and an A-4 takes off. View of air traffic control tower in background. (Vietnam War period).
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