View at Munitions Storage area. Loaded Thai trucks passing through guard gate at Munitions Storage area. Various views of storage area.
U.S. Air Force munitions handlers unload M117 General Purpose Bombs from a flat bed truck trailer. They roll them by their tail fins and then strap them one by one onto an MJ-1A/B Aerial Stores Lift Truck (Jammer) which they then use to raise each bomb up into a slot in a multi-bomb storage rack. View from storage rack as the team of two handlers approaches transporting an M117 bomb to be placed in the rack. Another munitions handler helps secure the bomb into the rack. The team continues to move bombs into the rack. View of a fully loaded rack of bombs on its low mobile trailer, and then view of being pulled from the area by a tractor truck.
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.
Opening shows a large paved area filled with M117 General Purpose Bomb casings standing on their tail fins.Thai workers are tagging them. Camera pans over the workers as they tag the bomb tail assembly casings. Another view from the side, showing the rows of bomb casings and Thai workers. Scene shifts to some M117 bomb casings standing on tail fins in a shipping depot. A yellow vehicle and a tractor truck with a loaded flat bed trailer pull into separate lanes of the depot. The same event is seen from a different perspective.
Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
A tractor trailer load of MK 82 General Purpose bomb arrives at a receiving depot in the munitions storage area of U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A Thai worker and an Air Force munitions handler install chocks ahead and behind the trailer wheels as other Thai workers climb aboard the flat bed trailer. Thai workers roll the bombs to an Air Force munitions handler who uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten tail assemblies onto the bombs. Another tractor trailer of bombs pulls into an adjacent lane of the receiving depot. Closeup of the Air Force munitions handler using his pneumatic tool to fasten the tail assemblies on the bombs.Thai helpers place tail assemblies on each bomb for the munitions handler and roll the completed assemblies into a line. View of assembled MK 82 bombs with tail fins and nose fuses installed and tagged.