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USS Kitty Hawk Coast Of Vietnam 1966

Public Domain Stock Footage USS Kitty Hawk Coast Of Vietnam 1966

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keywords: vietnam war, yankee station, gulf of tonkin, aircraft carrier, uss kitty hawk, flight deck, a-6a intruder medium bomber, a-4e skyhawk fighter bomber, a-1e skyraider prop attack aircraft

Synopsis: Unedited footage of the Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) operations while on "Yankee Station" in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam....(read more)

  • Date: 1966
  • Duration: 00:09:25
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Color
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Vietnam

USS Kitty Hawk - Coast Of Vietnam 1966

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USS Kitty Hawk - Coast Of Vietnam 1966

Unedited footage. LT. JG Greenmayer, A-4E Skyhawk pilot, preflight checking his aircraft prior to launch strike on North Viet Nam. LTJG climbing up the ladder towards cockpit. Pilot looking down into cockpit. Pilot in cockpit. Plane Captain up alongside the cockpit assisting the LTJG with his gear. LTJG donning his hard hat. Brown shirt working alongside the aircraft hooking up the gear for starting the A-4E. Brown shirt giving rev up signal to pilot, helicopter lifting off from carrier deck in BG. Pilot giving thumbs-up. Brown shirts around the aircraft. MS Flight deck area of Kitty Hawk (CV-63), an A-4E off to the right. LTJG in the aircraft. Aircraft on deck. Rear view of a brown shirt giving two fingers up. MS A-4E on flight deck. CU Wheel of the A-4E turning as it moves towards the catapult. CU Nose wheel moving in place on catapult. Swish pan to an aircraft being launched. A-4E being launched; A-6A Intruder in place on catapult, A-6 Intruder launched. A-4E Skyhawk comes in for a carrier landing. Excellent scene of aircraft with tail hook extended, tail hook catching a wire of the arresting gear as plane makes a carrier landing. A-4E plane takes a wave-off and flies over the deck with tail hook extended. Navy prop plane lands. A-4E coming in for a landing.

LT. JG Greenmayer walking along the catwalk en route to his quarters after the strike mission. Chief of the squadron of VA-113; Ordnance man, with his leg hanging out of the cockpit, talking to someone on flight deck (SV). Two A-4E"s on flight deck (OX). Two aviation ordnance men (AOs) wheeling a cart loaded with bombs under wing of an aircraft. CU Men loading the 250 1b. bombs under wing of aircraft. CU Bombs hanging under wing of aircraft, with ordnance men working around the bomb rack. CU Ordnance men working next to a bomb. CU Ordnance man's hands turning the fin on nose of a bomb. CU Bombs under the wing of an aircraft, as aircraft taxies by; PAN around to rear of the A-4E showing the ordnance hanging underneath aircraft. One of the ordnance men on flight deck. CU Small "BEE" insignia on rear of a man's hat. One of the ordnance men on flight deck. CU Small "BEE" insignia on rear of a man's hat. CU Group working underneath aircraft. CU Pilot walking across the deck. Flight deck crewman, his left hand on some object. Red shirt walking across the deck. CU Man sporting a large mustache. CU Pilot looking underneath his aircraft.

Shot List:

00:03:24;04

A-4E Skyhawk aircraft moved into launch position on flight deck of aircraft carrier

00:04:39;12

Aircraft makes tail hook landing on aircraft carrier

00:05:00;19

Aircraft with tail hook extend is "waved off" from aircraft carrier landing

00:05:12;20

Douglas A-1E Skyraider makes aircraft carrier tail hook landing