The Twenty Five Hour Day: F-105s in Vietnam - Restored Color, 1967

This film, produced by Fairchild-Hiller-Republic for the US Air Force, offers a  look inside F-105 "Thunderchief" fighter-bomber operations when the air campaign against North Vietnamese supply lines was ramping up into to high gear. Secretary of State Robert McNamara gives the broad outline of the Thud's primary mission in a series of strategic briefings: to strangle the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the strategic supply line from North to South Vietnam, through Cambodia and Laos, that was showing a quantum increase in activity and importance. You'll see exciting color footage of F-105s and other aircraft hitting bridges, supply depots convoys and other key targets along the Trail, and carrying out tactical operations in the South in conjunction with air mobile units. You'll see F -105 mission briefings, base operations, midair refueling, maintenance, and up close scenes of everyday pilot life on an extremely active forward base, working "Twenty-Five Hour Days." Get this video and two more, including an 800-page F105 pilot's manual, on our "F-105 Thunderchiefs Go to War DVD: http://bit.ly/MAUGyl
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