Construction at Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam Part 1

Description

Shows early phases of construction including POL tank and building erection, surveying and grading of flight line, and ditching for plumbing. ROLL: R30C-7F-l. Vietnamese workmen painting and wrapping insulation on POL pipes next to partially constructed POL tank. 31' Vietnamese welding pipe lengths together in a shed in the POL tank area. 61' Vietnamese laborers putting metal sections on concrete floor for a POL tank. 93' ROLL: R30C-7F-2 22. 101' Airmen drilling and screwing down top beams over half circle framing for quonset hut. l50' LS oriental-structured main gate at Bien Hoa AB with military vehicles going in and out, ox carts and horse carriage passing by. 181' CU of guard station at main gate with US airmen and Vietnamese airmen directing traffic. 190' ROLL: R30C-7F-3. 195' Scenes of Vietnamese laborers digging a trench for plumbing alongside steel framing of a building. 261' LS airmen working on F-l00 fuselage and wing. 265' CU Vietnamese workman hosing F-l00. 290' MS Vietnamese washing and drying F-l00. 294' ROLL: R30C-7F-47. 303' LS & CUs two Vietnamese kneeling and using a tape measure on ground, tilt up and show surveyor team using a transit near revetment area -- forklift carrying construction supplies and roller operating in background. 353' Scenes of scraper and roller in operation in revetment area. 371' Scenes at 8th Aerial Post Sq area of troops milling around corrugated headquarters building. 396' ROLL: R30-7F-48. 406' Scenes of warehouse area of cases and crates standing in front of quonset huts and corrugated steel building. 418' Airmen placing and fastening down aluminum roof panels on steel frame of building. 465' ELS construction area, zoom into surveyor team and LS of grading equipment in operation in background. 488' ROLL: R30C-7F-49. 502' MS EXT of partially constructed corrugated steel building. 511' CU airman attaching siding to frame of building. 541' MS CUs airman working on roof of quonset hut, fastening down panels and spreading plastic waterproofing on panel edges. 571' LS airmen putting siding on quonset hut.

Collection

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

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities