Aerial view of an LKA (Amphibious cargo Ship) with barge at her starboard side, in extremely calm waters of Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Several fast-moving 15 foot Boston Whaler (Skimmer) boats are seen crossing the bay. (Note: Such boats were assigned to Inshore Undersea Warfare Group One, Western Pacific Detachment, AKA, IUWG-1 WESTPAC DET. The first 4 Skimmers arrived in country on January 3, 1967 and were assigned to Unit 2 at Cam Ranh Bay. Reportedly, the one seen armed with the M60 machine gun, is boat # 72.) Aerial views of the coastline, with shoals, are seen, and a freighter anchored in the bay, surrounded by barges. On a promontory overlooking the bay, are seen buildings and a lookout and searchlight tower, that are part of the Harbor Entrance Control Post (HECP).
Sign board showing 624th Special Service of U.S. Army in Vietnam. Conex containers placed on loading platform. Forklift loads crates onto truck.
Scattered dead bodies of Vietcong soldiers lay on ground in a U.S. Army base. Badly wounded corpses with blood are seen. Blood splatters all over the ground. Belongings of the soldiers like sandals lay on ground near the corpses.
Blue shirt, flight deck crewmen seen under an A-4E. Pilot looking into cockpit of another A-4E.Plane captain (brown shirt) and an armorer (red shirt) under the plane. Catapult and arresting gear crew (green shirts) set up a catapult. Island of the carrier (Coral Sea,CVA-43) in background. Red shirt armorers crawling over an aircraft. Squadron maintenance (green shirts) work on nose radar of an F-4B. Pilot seen earlier, climbs into cockpit of his A-4E. Tractor backs A-3B down over deck. It is parked on side of a E-2A .
A-4E aircraft parked on flight deck of the USS Constellation (CVA-64). Plane captains walk along flight deck. A- 4Es parked in far background, framed by part of A-3B.Plane captain along port side of cockpit of A-4E. NK Tail code of Carrier Wing 14, seen on all aircraft. Green shirts stand looking up toward plane captain working on windshield of A-4E.Radar antennas rotating on the Island. A-4E parked on deck, tow-bar attached to nose wheel, water framed in background. Group of men, in left background, sunning themselves. A-4E parked on deck, island structure in left BG. Man standing alongside cockpit talking to plane captain seated in cockpit of A-4E. plane captain scrubbing down top inner section of starb'd wing. VA 55 Warhorses logo and USS Constellation painted on fuselage of plane. Man cleaning vertical stabilizer.View of ship's bridge. Men cleaning down vertical and horizontal stabilizers of A-4E. Man in far background cleaning port side of cockpit area as fourth man at right cleans starboard wing. Looking aft, from forward part of flight deck, island in left, shows empty flight deck and a lone yellow shirt seated on two wheel chocks.
A large blimp being prepared on the ground and then released in the air near shore of Lake Michigan. It is surrounded by many aircraft. Pilot and a gunner with mounted machine gun are in a plane. The gunner fires at the blimp. A parachute is seen descending toward ground. The blimp catches fire and drops down burning.
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