Vietnam War: USAF Airmen Being Processed; Aerial Bombing 250199-04 | Footage Farm

If you wish to acquire broadcast quality material of this reel or want to know more about our Public Domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk [1972 - Color, Vietnam War: USAF Airmen Being Processed; Aerial Bombing, 08-19Dec72] Slate: 13Dec72 Base Closure / Cease Fire Sgt. Lydic. 18:52:52 Airmen into room, given paperwork; sit at desks. Put paperwork folders on shelf & checked by multiple airmen. Signing off on papers. Sign behind officers: In-Out Processing CBPO 377 Air Base. 8 sec. slug. 18:55:38 Slate: 08Dec72 Base Closure. Camera: J. Summerfield. 18:55:51 Workmen in front of trailer / containers w/ plywood over windows, large P&H crane set up, hooking up lifting cables. Smiling South Vietnam airman. 20 sec. slug. 18:58:23 Slate: 15Dec72 Camera: J. Summerfield. 18:58:29 Ext. Quonset hut w/ bicycles in front, two American troops out. CU sign: Data Control Rm No. etc. 18:59:03 Sign: CU 377th Air Base Wing Consolidated Base Personnel Office (CBPO), airmen in. Repeated w/ more in/ out. 9 sec. Slug. 19:00:49 Slate: same. 19:00:55 Men at processing counter, one giving instructions. Two airmen. Row of officers. CU man filling out paperwork, CU man receiving. Others watching. CU pulling folders; CU hand taking pill bottlers. Black Slug. 19:02:15 MS & CUs airman filling out paperwork, sweating. Various forms. Woman taking/handing forms, CU writing. Slug. 19:03:39 LS of airman & suitcase, inspecting contents & closing. Men packing crates w/ uniforms. Vietnamese man packing ceramic souvenir elephant w/ cushioning, nailing crates & gluing label. Rolling down conveyor. 19:06:04 Slate: same. Slug. 19:06:22 Crate off conveyor & weighed, CU Vietnamese; labeling crate w/ paperwork; strapping w/ metal. 19:07:33 Pushing crate onto truck. Addressing w/ marker. LS Loading on truck. 19:08:42 CU sign: MACV Special Troops APO 96222 Personal Property Division Hours of Operation... 19:08:51 Crates outside building; Loading dock sign. Slug. 19:09:18 Slate: same, 19Dec72. 19:09:23 Asphalt road, entrance banner sign: R&R Processing Center, Camp Alpha, airmen walking past vehicles, van past; jeeps into base, army bus leaving. Slug. 19:10:11 MS airmen past MP at guard post, show papers. CUs. Slug. 19:10:49 Airmen out of unmarked glass doorway. Empty military bus arriving & men in uniform w/ briefcases out & boarding. Inside bus. Convoy of buses past in parking lot, 19:13:30 Slate: Same. 19Dec72. Slug. Slate. Slug. 19:13:51 Slate: 05May70 France. Low aerial over jungle, white explosion clouds; flames of explosions. 9:15:00 Continued from card 1 of 2. Slate: France 05May70 South Vietnamese soldiers w/ field packs across tarmac & board open tail door of four-engine C-130 Hercules (?). Boarding in three columns up loading ramps seen from inside. 19:16:48 CU engines spinning. 19:17:09 POV on take-off from inside cockpit. CU pilot; CU navigator (?) doing paperwork; CU co-pilot. 19:18:03 Slate. Same 05May?? Smoke rising from farmland & woods. Explosions. Large cloud seen past rockets under wing of camera plane. Jungle w/ several fires, explosions. Small reconnaissance plane seen air to air. 19:20:52 not useful 19:21:07 Slate: same View from cockpit approaching landing strip, 19:21:59 Aerial over farmland & woods, village seen. 19:22:16 DH 784 w/. South Vietnamese troops off rear ramp of C-130 (?). CU boots off ramp. 19:22:51 Man w/o shirt working on motor of Piper reconnaissance plane. Man in camouflage uniform signing paperwork beside plane & closing engine covers. 19:24:02 not useful 19:24:19 Aerial over explosions in jungle, smoke rising. View from helicopter (?) w/ many bomb craters visible along road or ?? Low level w/ smoke rising. 19:25:09 View from beneath twin-engine A-37B Dragonfly (?) w/ rockets under wings. Air to air of two w/ camouflage paint; MCUs. Tail code EK. Vietnam War; 1970s; NOTE: Probably at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.