AIRLIFT TO MOUNTAINS, KHE SAHN AIRSTRIP, VIETNAM Part 1

Description

Covers resupply of Special Forces Camp by camouflaged C-123B's of the 311th Air Commando Squadron. (Shot list to follow.) 1' AV's INT C-123B cockpit showing approach to Khe Sahn airstrip. 33' Dirt road bordered by jungle. 53' Huts and plantation owner's house. 75' Plantation owner's wife instructing Vietnamese children, and children walking with teacher to missionary school. 99' ELS to MS C-123B on approach and landing on airstrip. 118' Pilot and copilot leaving C-123B. 123' Personnel offloading C-rations from C-123B. 161' C-123B taking off and on approach over camera. 181' Low clouds drifting over airstrip. 219' LS to MS to ELS C-123B taking off to right. 238' ARVN and Special Forces personnel entering underground bunker. 248' CP compound in camp. 285' Vietnamese children entering classroom. 315' Huts in village, Vietnamese men and women performing routine chores, ARVN sentry at gate, punji sticks implanted by fence and RVN flag on mast. 395' LS's to MS's to LS's C-123B taking off to right and on approach and landing to left. 428' Takeoff from Khe Sahn airstrip as seen from rear of C-123B. 487' CP bunker, barracks, ARVN artillery CP, ARVN troops and Special Forces advisor returning from patrol, bunkers, machine gun emplacements, trenches; also shows 2.75" FFAR's in launchers mounted on tripod. 609' C-123B taxiing, turning, parked, C-rations being offloaded from aircraft. 700' AV's of mountians, valleys, villages, road, airstrip and Special Forces Camp.

Collection

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

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities