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Danang Rigging Area and a Test Drop Across Bag from Cam Ranh Bay, (Footage by Alvin Burk II)

Moving Image Item Number: 001VI0153
Pages
0
Media Type
Moving Image
Physical Location
CS61.4
Number of Media
1
Language(s)
English
Item is Copyrighted – Check for access via the Vietnam Reading Room portal.
Format
VHS
Time - Hr:Min:Sec
14:45
Digitized in HD?
No
General Note
From the cover: 109TH QM CO. (AD) Danang Rigging Area

NOTE: no audio

0:17 small planes on runway; possibly a Grumman F8F or North American T-28 Nomad; larger planes de Havilland C-7; Fairchild C-123 Provider; C-123B
00:30 commercial airplane American Airlines;
00:46 two small planes taking flight;
1:27 Huey helicopter landing; Lockheed C-130 Hercules; de Haviland C-7, Caribou; runway equipment; runway footage;
2:24 Cessna O-2 take off;
3:04 helicopter (Kaman HH-43 Huskie) with sling load faintly comes into view; A-4E Skyhawk takeoff;
3:40 Douglas EB-66E (Destroyer) landing;
3:55 Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw (Seahorse); commercial airplane landing; unidentified plane takeoff; Cessna O-1 Bird Dog takeoff; Douglas C-133 Cargomaster with one propeller spinning; unidentified plane (likely Skyhawk) takeoff;
5:51 barracks; men and women exiting barracks and loading into red Volkswagen van labeled III MAF Special Services (Marine Amphibious Force); black soldier, runway debris; crowded runway; runway equipment;
07:32 pallets of C-Rations (C Ration meals); Meal Combat Individual;
07:54 night footage
8:40 daytime footage; soldiers; soldiers recording on camera; livestock; soldiers walking around fields; helicopter flying overhead; soldiers exploring landscape; landscape footage; helicopter; airplane overhead;
10:54 soldiers beside a bush;
11:15 jeep vehicle; helicopter; mountains; landscape; chinook sling load; up-close shot of flower; helicopter flying low; unidentified plane ascending; helicopter;
12:16 soldiers walking across field; close up of grass; Chinook; packages being air dropped;
13:13 soldiers collecting packages; package debris on the field; soldiers dragging cargo;
14:16 black screen: static noise;

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=001VI0153

Citation
Danang Rigging Area and a Test Drop Across Bag from Cam Ranh Bay, (Footage by Alvin Burk II), 001VI0153. No Date, Veteran Members of the 109th Quartermaster Company (Air Delivery) Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=001VI0153, Accessed 25 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line
001VI0153, Veteran Members of the 109th Quartermaster Company (Air Delivery) Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 03 Feb 2002 [Updated: 15 Nov 2023]