VNAF (Vietnam Air Force) and USAF (United States Air Force) officers in a combat control room at a U.S. base in Pleiku, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. VNAF and USAF officers discussing a request for an air strike against Viet Cong positions. They check a wall map for location. Officers make telephone calls at a table.
2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) prepares for a mission. Soldiers use camouflage stick on each other's faces. They wait next to helicopters. Bell UH-1D and Bell UH-1B "Huey" helicopters take off from Bien Hoa Air Force Base, South Vietnam. Ground view of a line of UH-1B helicopters in flight. Point of view shot inside helicopter from just behind the cockpit of a "Huey" shows a number of other helicopters flying ahead. Helicopters fly above green fields. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam. A soldier holds up red panties with 'Merry Christmas' written on it. A soldier holds up a box with a small tree on it. Gifts are taken out of an ammunition box. A soldier places a cardboard star on a tree. Another soldier squirts shaving cream on the branches. A chaplain on a make shift altar near a bunker. The soldiers listen to the chaplain. Two soldiers sit near a 50 caliber machine gun. One soldier holds up the box with the Christmas tree on it. The other man holds up the red panties. A soldier leans against sandbags and writes a letter. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. soldiers at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, Vietnam. A U.S. sentry walks past a barbed wire fence. A puppy follows him. The sun sets behind tents in the background. The sentry pets the puppy. The puppy is on the sandbags of an emplacement. The sentry walks to his post. He looks out over the barbed wire fence. (Vietnam War period).
Different types of aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Most ot them are civilian aircraft. An Airlift International Airways Boeing 727 parked and then taxiing. Pan American Boeing 707 (cargo version) aircraft, Numerous Douglas DC-3s and one civilian Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked. A Thai Airways Caravelle jet taxiing. A Douglas DC-6 with "United States of America" painted on its side. A DHC-4 (C-7A) Caribou aircraft crosses the intersection of a road and taxiway. DC-3s and U-1A Otter aircraft taxi past the intersection. Yellow fuel truck and several vehicles holding short, waiting to cross active runway. Vortac transmitter in grass field beside them.
An aircraft flies over the Vung Tau air base in Vietnam. It flies over houses in the town. Smoke emerges from a hill. Before landing it flies over helicopters and an air craft at the air base. It lands and moves over the runway.
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