A truck tractor slowly pulls a rack of M117 General Purpose Bombs, on a low trailer, to a munitions storage area in the U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. The driver gets out and disconnects the trailer from the truck. Change of scene shows Thai workers cleaning inside the rear parts of M117 bombs sitting on their tail fins. They each wear hats or other headgear to protect from the sun. Closeup of one wearing turban style head protection. Closeup of bomb casing interior, as one of the Thai men works on it View of many bomb casings on their tail fins, lined up at a pickup point. A truck pulling bomb trailers pulls into place, near the line of bomb casings. Then another truck pulling a flat bed trailer filled with bombs pulls up at another driveway. Its driver gets out and walks away. Next, the line of bomb casings is seen sitting alone in the facility, when a yellow vehicle pulls into one lane and tractor truck pulling a loaded flatbed trailer pulls into another lane of the facility.
View at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. Pre-loaded bomb racks are tug pulled by transport vehicles toward a B-52 F bomber aircraft. Pre-loaded racks of Mk 82 bombs are loaded into bomb bay of B-52 F aircraft by airmen. MJ-1 loading Mk 82 bombs on B-52 F wing cluster rack.
A USAAF B-17F is seen where it crash-landed in the desert near Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, on February 18, 1943, in World War 2. The film was shot some time later when salvage operations are underway including removal of engines. As the camera pans around the plane, a bent propeller is seen in the sand. The tail number 25326 is seen, identifying it as Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, 42-5326, of the 351st Bombardment Group, 511th Bomb Squadron, with home base at Biggs Field. The camera focuses on the plane's empennage.
United States 4252nd Strategic Wing headquarters in Takhli, Thailand during the Vietnam War. United States Air Force personnel sleep, read and write letters in their quarters. Men put on their jackets. Three caps on a shelf. Men pick them up and wear them. They come out of a building and walk past a sign that reads ' Headquarters SO 4252nd Strategic Wing '. Another sign reads ' Season's greetings '.
The role of USAF bombers, submarines and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) in maintaining world peace especially in the Mediterranean, Vietnam and Berlin during the Cold War. View of formation of United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft flying overhead in a blue sky. View from low flying aircraft of a U.S. Navy Polaris submarine cruising in ocean waters. A USAF Intercontinental Ballistic Missile being raised slowly upward from a silo into a launch-ready position. View from ground of large number of American paratrooper soldiers dropping from sky and landing on a field, including wide views and close-up views of parachutes and paratroopers landing. A U.S. Army paratrooper organizes his parachute and equipment immediately after landing. Aerial view of U.S. Navy warships cruising in the Mediterranean Sea. View from inside a U.S. Army helicopter in flight in Vietnam. Soldiers observe terrain out open door. Sign "You are leaving the American Sector" seen at Checkpoint Charlie of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin and East Berlin. American and Soviet soldiers seen on each side of the checkpoint. An American tank parked at the checkpoint. (Vietnam War period).
A news conference in Washington D.C., United States about the American soldiers held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard G. Capen addresses the press at a conference as he stands behind a podium with the Department of Defense insignia on it. A board in the background reads ' United States POWs and missing in action personnel '. A board placed next to Capen with pictures on it. A sign on the board reads ' U.S. POWs released by NVN ' . Pictures of soldiers released by the North Vietnamese. A chart on the board reads ' status '. A picture of a United States Air Force Major General. Another picture of an injured soldier on the board. A title on the board reads ' parading U.S. prisoners '. An officer removes the chart and another one is being displayed before the press at the conference. A chart titled ' Isolation' shows American soldiers behind bars in captivity. Another chart depicts the medical treatment being given to American soldiers captured by North Vietnamese. The Deputy Secretary of Defense Capen speaks from a podium. A picture on the board indicates the diet being given to American soldiers captured by North Vietnamese. A series of pictures on the board titled ' weight loss' shows pictures of emaciated American soldiers. Capen speaks about the condition of American prisoners of war in Vietnam. Officials seated at a desk. Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Havens speaks to the press. Capen speaks to the press. Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State Frank Sieverts at a desk as he answers the press. (Vietnam War period).
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