Scenes aboard a Carrier of the U.S. Seventh Fleet as pilots and newsmen are briefed before an air raid on supply installations in North Vietnam. Aircraft on the deck of the carrier are prepared to launch. Bombs being loaded on the planes. Aircraft take off from the carrier.
A long line of UH-1 Helicopters, from the U.S. Army 1st Aviation Brigade, is seen parked beside the runway, with engines running, at Camp Holloway, Pleiku, Vietnam. One is moving slowly a few feet above the runway. Scene shifts to view from open door of an UH-1 Huey helicopter, flying overhead. View of the long runway with some red dust above it. View of misty mountains. View of narrow curving stream cutting through green brush below. Image stops from TC: 00:53 to 01:15, where another aircraft passes at a distance and a river and jungle are seen below. Next, numerous UH-1s are seen on the red earth fields of Camp Holloway, as the camera chopper settles over the camp runway and then air taxis along a ramp paved with PSP (pierced steel plank aka Marsden matting).
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits South Vietnam. Vietnamese Guard of Honor at an airport as a Military Air Transport C-121, Constelletion airplane lands. Vice-President Richard Nixon and his wife Patricia emerge from the airplane and are greeted by Vietnamese officials and Vietnamese girls with flowers. Vietnamese officials in white suits salute. Nixon in front of a USIS microphone. People assembled with banners. Nixon on a walkabout with civilians receives flowers. A motorcade with outriders arrives at a government building. Vietnamese officials stand and salute on the steps of the building. Interiors of the building show Nixon seated on a small platform listening to a speech by a Vietnamese official.
Rocket engine nozzle at launching. The engine rises slowly from launch pad. An engineer behind control panel. A rocket launches a captured German V-2 rocket/WAC Corporal Bumper 8 from Pad 3 of Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950. Two United States Air Force Convair F-106As Delta Dart in flight. Aerial view of launch complexes. Titan II missile is launched. The Titan II missile explodes mid-air. A huge ball of fire from Titan II explosion. A scientist uses a tracking camera during a Titan II rocket launch. Footage from camera shows the first stage separation of the Titan II. The booster blasted away at second stage ignition. Various tracking stations covering the Atlantic missile range. A satellite dish recording telemetry data. Observatory dome with telescope rotating. The USS HH Arnold (T-AGM-9) missile tracking ship at sea. A re-entry vehicle is seen re-entering the atmosphere. A United States Air Force Lockheed JC-130B Hercules equipped with a trapeze structure snatching an Aero kite balloon suspended from a ship. Air Force Missile Test Center and its logo. View of Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida (840 Falcon Ave. Building 720 Patrick AFB, FL 32925). Various missiles on display in front of the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab at Patrick Air Force Base. Engineers working in the Air Force Missile Test Center Technical Lab. An engineer examines a magnetic tape from an IBM console in the EDP room. An Air Force Missile Test Center report. A Gemini space capsule is being lowered. NASA personnel watch the capsule. Sign reads “Gemini / Titan II Man Rated Complex Martin Company”. Lt. Colonel John G. Albert Chief of the Gemini Launch division, 6555th Aerospace Test Wing at the entering gate. A blockhouse in the background. Colonel Albert inspects Gemini’s boosters. He is at the launch control in the blockhouse.
Rescue activities of United states 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron in Thailand. A sign reads '40th ARRS Jolly Green'. A wooded area in the background. Based on the terrain, this could be Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base (NKP). Home of the HH-53 Rescue Helicopters
United States Marin Corps outpost during air strike support near Dong Ha, Vietnam. United States Marine Corps personnel at a bunker in a field. A marine tries to get into the bunker and men with rifles behind sand bag mounds in the background. Another marine corps personnel with a rocket launcher on his shoulder in the background.
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