AIR POLICE AT CAM RANH BAY AB, VIETNAM Reel 1 · Part 6

Description

Covers some of the activities of the 12th Air Police Squadron showing them pulling vehicle and making personnel checks at main and secondary gates, guarding entrances to ammunition area and various parts of the flight line. Also shows the Phantom Flight at outpost and a search and destroy group during practice. Reel 1: Scenes of A2C Bartholomew C. Cavallaro at his post on hill overlooking the flight line. 16': LS high angle of F-4C being towed to left -- guard in fg. 38': LS & MS of bunker and AP. 51': Scenes of A2C Charles J. Albornoz at his post checking traffic into the POL dump and trucks loaded with JP-4 fuel. 79': TAIL SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-249 AND 255. 95': Scenes of AP watching Vietnamese women checking other Vietnamese bags and searching them. 185': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-256. 191': MLS of Vietnamese woman checking other Vietnamese women. 200': Scenes of Vietnamese man checking passes and frisking men at checkpoint as AP watches, crowded truck coming into checkpoint and leaving. 282': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-259 AND 271. 288': Scenes at checkpoint showing truck loaded with Vietnamese workers arriving, Vietnamese going through check station, getting on truck and truck pulling away -- cutaway shot of airman that rides on truck. 485': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-272. 486': Scenes of A2C Bobby D. Pollock, A2C James O. Howard, A1C Michael E. Miller and SSgt Joe T. Browning checking Vietnamese workers at the Myca checkpoint as they leave the base and workers get into cattle truck. 585': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-274. 590': Shows A1C Rupert Ballantini checking a Vietnamese truck and driver and watching Vietnamese women being checked. 682': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-277. 688': Scenes of Vietnamese workers being checked at the Myca checkpoint -- Monastery in bg -- shows workers getting into truck and AP frisking Vietnamese men. 745': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-278. 750': Scenes of large trailer truck with Vietnamese workers arriving at checkpoint in morning -- shows worker getting off the trailer, walking to checkpoint, getting back on trailer after being searched and truck/trailer pulling away. 843': Total footage in reel. Reel 2: SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-219. 7': Several scenes of AP's standing inspection prior to guard duty. 96': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-220. 117': Scenes of the Phantom Flight showing men at outpost, uncovering mortar, checking book, dropping 61mm mortar shell into tube, mortar firing, man aiming mortar, sergeant receiving phone message, airman on watch duty and men plotting target. (Shot day for night because the Phantom Flight works only from 2200 hours to 0600 hours) 188': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-236. 196': Scenes of a search and destroy group in practice skirmish formations as line moves across opening and hits the ground -- shows group moving in on suspected enemy, moving out of brush and past camera. 281': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-237. 389': Scenes of A2C Delbert Hicks standing guard at entrance to flight line and motioning vehicle on. 411': Scenes of A2C Cornelius Nuse checking a vehicle through at main entrance to flight line -- camouflaged C-130's in bg. 449': Shows A1C Rosco Turner at his post with F-4C engines in bg as vehicle passes through gate at fighter revetments. 479': SLATE: ROLL: R30C-6D-247. 485': Shows A1C A. B. Thomas motioning civilian construction vehicle through gate and talking on walkie--talkie. 507': Scenes of A1C Billy M. Howard at ammo dump gate as amphibian truck "The Duck" approaches -- shows him talking to driver and handing his lighter to AP with CU of sign: DEPOSIT ALL LIGHTERS, MATCHES AND OTHER FLAME PRODUCING DEVICES WITH THE GUARD. 561': Total footage in reel.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities