An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. The PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) Jungle Survival School at Clark Air Force Base on Luzon Island, Philippines. USAF airmen cross over bamboo sticks tied together and laid out on the ground. AF personnel hear and watch as an airman explains about and demonstrates a hand made bamboo contraption. He removes and shows carved pointed spears made of bamboo. The face up pointed spears in a pit. An airman talks about another hand made contraption. A dog alongside the others as they watch and listen. Another airman demonstrates a third contraption. Carved pointed spears of bamboo tied together on the contraption, and a string attached to pull it. The personnel stand around a contraption with a door.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. The PACAF (Pacific Air Forces) Jungle Survival School at Clark Air Force Base on Luzon Island, Philippines. A USAF airman picks up a python. A Filipino snake caretaker helps him. Other personnel look on as the airman holds the python and lifts it up to his shoulder. The personnel take a look at the python as one touches it. The demonstrator holds another snake curled around his arm. The python crawls on the ground between the personnel's feet. Two Filipino snake caretakers stand nearby. 'PACAF Jungle Survival School' sign on the picket fence. Airmen in an enclosure. Tress and plant in the compound. Airmen leave the compound with their military rucksacks and get onto a truck.
Primary flight training base near Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, United States. Men at base. Instructor teaches the trainee. Trainee gets training in T-34 Mentor training Aircrafts. Trainees get training in class about working of aircraft. Instructor teaches on board and gives exercise on model aircraft. A trainee and instructor in flight. Instructor guides trainee for aerobatics. The aircraft lands. Trainee takes off for solo flight. Aircraft in flight and then lands. Sign outside apartment reads "Q-2 Captain W.C. Adams, U.S. Navy." Two couples in a red Ford Mustang convertible. A woman catches a beach ball. A couple running in the surf at the beach. A couple sailing together in small sail boat. A couple playing tennis. A man and two women golfing. A man water skiing while a woman observes from a motor boat. A couple having a picnic barbecue grill hamburgers.
Burning Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off South Vietnam. Fire resulted from accidental ignition of flares. Three officers in the cabin, one of them sitting on the table top, while other two are on chairs and are engaged in an informal conversation (on same reel of footage, taken before the fire). View as sailors rip material from ship's side to gain access to fire. Smoke billows from side of ship. Several sailors run from area of heavy smoke, to get breath of fresher air. Injured sailor carried on stretcher.
U.S. Navy 7th fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. U.S. Navy Lieutenant, an Air Force airman 1st at a conference held in wardroom aboard USS Coral Sea. Rear Admiral Edward C. Outlaw answers questions from news men. Officer speaks into a microphone as newsmen jot down notes. Others at the conference include Lieutenant Commander R. Gallagher, G. Wright, C. Brovelli of Agnay France press, W. Tuohy of Newsweek, Captain P. Behm, Airman First Class Ray Heitman,Lieutenant Commander W. Lyons, Commander J. Harris, Commander J.M.Schneider, Norris of Washington Post. W.C. Powell, Commander K.J. Weaver. Rear Admiral Outlaw reaches across the table and shakes hands with newsmen. Newsmen at the table as they write down notes. Members of the press and officers at table as a steward serves refreshments. Rear Admiral Outlaw answers questions. A member of the press asks a question.
U.S. President Richard Nixon and other officials on Midway Island during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force officer saluting. Honor guards and officers in charge in the background. President Nixon leaving a speaker's stand on an airfield. The President with a Commanding Officer and other officials walks past the officers in charge of honor guards. People gathered watching the President and the officials. The doorway to a terminal building in view. A sign above the doorway reads 'Aloha'. The President and the officials entering the terminal through the doorway. Civilians and other officers watching them. U.S. Navy personnel and the civilians gathering around the President in a fenced area. The President shaking hands and talking with the navy personnel and a few people in the crowd. An officer with a walkie talkie beside the fence. Various views of the President shaking hands with people in the crowd. The President walking away with the Commanding officer. Several navy personnel in white uniforms in the area. President Nixon talking with the flight stewardesses in blue uniforms. U.S. U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers standing behind the President. Other civilians in the area. U.S. Marines standing in formation in the background. One of the stewardesses and a few men taking pictures with cameras.
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