F-4J plane ready for launch from angled deck, after-burners cut in as air operations go on aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Tonkin Gulf. Plane leaves. Lower after section of F-4J, after-burners cut in. F-4J launched from angled deck. A-7B plane and F-4J make recovery. A-7B makes recovery after a bombing mission. RA-5C plane makes recovery. Arresting wire is let go, plane begins taxiing. RA-5C makes recovery.
Tonkin Gulf. Aircraft come in for landing. Down over deck, aircraft makes recovery. F-4J plane takes wave-off over deck. F-4J makes recovery.
UH-46D helicopter comes in over flight deck with supplies as air operations go on aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64) in Tonkin Gulf. The helicopter lowers the supplies and releases. Other supplies on deck. Helicopter appears to back away. Men move in towards supplies over flight deck. UH-46D comes in over flight deck with supplies hanging from slings. Supplies are set down and released. UH-46D over flight deck. Crewman seen with upper part of his body protruding out of forward window. Helicopter rises after release of supplies. UH-46D comes in over deck with large load hanging from sling. Supplies lowered, released and helicopter rises. UH-46D comes in over deck. Supplies on deck released by helicopter. Helicopter rises for departure after releasing supplies. UH-46D releasing supplies on flight deck and flying off; men and forklift move in to remove supplies.
Simulation of activities that took place during Tonkin Gulf Incident during 2-5 August 1964. The USS Turner Joy (DD-951) underway at sea. Ship's Captain, Commander Robert Chauncey Barnhart Jr., USN, standing with a telephone talker. Both wear helmets. Barnhart scans the horizon with a pair of binoculars. The telephone talker is wearing earphones. Operation's Officer Lieutenant J. Palmer, also wearing helmet, looks through the sighting area on pelorus and calls out bearings.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Turner Joy (DD- 951) at sea. A signalman sends a message through a signal light aboard the destroyer.. He sends up a hoist of signal flags from a flag bag.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 2-5. 1964. USS Turner Joy underway at sea. Lookout scanning the horizon, with his binoculars, sending a report over phone, as he points with his right hand, after putting down the binoculars; he again raises the binoculars, scans the horizon. He sends a report over a phone. Interior of the destroyer, with crew members monitoring tracking equipment.One stands near them speaking into a phone. Flashes from guns firing from the fantail of the ship at night.