Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. ARRIVALS OF HONORABLE TOWNSEND W. HOOPES AND GENERAL CURTIS E. LEMAY (RET) AT TAN SON NHUT AB, VIETNAM

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. ARRIVALS OF HONORABLE TOWNSEND W. HOOPES AND GENERAL CURTIS E. LEMAY (RET) AT TAN SON NHUT AB, VIETNAM

1968

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Covers the arrivals of Under Secy of AF Honorable Townsend W. Hoopes and official party by MAC C-135B and Gen Curtis E. LeMay (Ret), Vice President candidate on the Wallace ticket arriving Pan American Boeing 707. SLATE:ROLLS: R30C-9X-013 and 519. 10' Scenes of MAC C-135B taxiing in as directed, Under Secy of AF Honorable Hoopes, Honorable Thomas H. Nielson, Asst Secy of AF (Financial Management), unidentified major general alighting from aircraft, being greeted by Maj Gen Royal N. Baker, Vice Comdr 7th AF, and party departing area with MCU of sign: TAN SON NHUT BASE OPERATIONS. 104' MS's of tail section on MAC C-135B and Tan Son Nhut printed on aircraft ramp. 113' SLATE:ROLL: R30C-9X-008. 135' Scenes of Gen LeMay (Ret) and party alighting from Pan American Boeing 707, crowd and photographers gathering around Gen Levy as he tries to make way to car, and Gen LeMay's car with escort pulling away from terminal. 157' Total footage in reel.

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LeMay, Curtis E. (Curtis Emerson), 1906-1990

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. LeMay joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, the precursor to the U.S. Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's Attack on Pearl ...

Baker, Royal N. (Royal Newman), 1918-

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