“A Story of Air Force F-105s” this is a 26 minute publicity film produced by Fairchild-Hiller / Republic Aviation, makers of the F-105 Thunderchief from 1967.

The film opens with US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara explains that petroleum imports into 1966 increased between 50 and 70 percent over 1965, as a requirement to literally fuel their military aggression with the escalation of the Vietnam War from a quasi guerrilla operation to a full scale state military operation against South Vietnam. Which was the impetus for US involvement in an effort to stop the spread of a socialist influence to other countries within the Pacific region.