# LAOS AIR BASE // VIETNAM WAR HOME MOVIES SHOT BY RAVENS KRT 59704

These extraordinary silent, Super 8mm home movies from the Vietnam War, come from a member of the "Ravens". The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known simply as The Ravens, were fighter pilots used for forward air control in a covert operation in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States in Laos during America's Vietnam War. The Ravens provided direction for most of the air strikes against communist Pathet Lao targets and People's Army of Vietnam's infiltrators in support of the Laotian Hmong guerrilla army. This reel shows the following: ( 00:00:00 ) T-28, Saravane, Laos, stuck in mud being pulled out using jeeps. ( 00:01:18 ) Pakse, Laos. Loading Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb on T-28 Trojan. ( 00:01:52 ) T-28, Pakse, Laos. T-28 with Napalm (silver), CBU (yellow-capped), and Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb (protrusion from bomb) ordnance. Laotian pilot getting into cockpit. Starting T-28. Taxing to runway. T-28 taking off. ( 00:05:58 ) Smoke from bombing in distance. ( 00:07:14 ) T-28 in flight. Film taken from 0-1 (Birddog) by FAC (Raven) pilot. T-28 flying with wheels down in order to slow down to the airspeed of an O-1. ( 00:08:08 ) T-28 on bombing run. ( 00:08:14 ) T-28 dropping Napalm. ( 00:08:20 ) T-28 bomb run dropping Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb. ( 00:08:50 ) T-28 bomb run dropping Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb. ( 00:09:23 ) T-28 bomb run dropping Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb. ( 00:09:36 ) T-28 bomb run dropping Daisy-Cutter 500# bomb. ( 00:09:49 ) Several “dry runs”,…

- Kind: Home movie
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/59704Super8mmKTReel15Mos)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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