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U.S. Air Force film about the Military Airlift Command (MAC)
Opening scene shows a C-130 aircraft on final approach, and about to land on an airfield, at dusk. Next, a MAC Lockheed C-141 Starlifter aircraft is seen flying over a body of water. Its tail number is 63-8075. (Nicknamed "Petunia Pig," it was flown in accelerated operations beginning in 1964, and eventually logging about 15 hours a day in regular service, to provide the Air Force advance information about the operational capabilities of this type aircraft.) The next airplane shown is a MAC Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, about to land. Its unique 28-wheel landing gear is clearly visible as it approaches and touches down. Scene shifts to the MAC Command and Control Center, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where Air Force controllers are monitoring MAC worldwide operations. The wall in the background is covered by a map of the world showing numerous MAC air routes. A civilian narrator speaks about the Military Airlift Command. Camera pans over the Command Center wall map, showing North and South America and associated MAC routes and then across the Atlantic to Europe and Africa. Bucolic scenes of farmland and fields in the vicinity of Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Next, three large jet transport aircraft are seen on an airfield ramp. Suddenly, one explodes and is destroyed in fire and smoke. Rescuers carry and injured person on a stretcher. Another scene shows a bus and cars consumed in flames.
Tanks and troops transported by the Military Aircraft Command during Army Reforger 76 exercise in Europe.
A civilian narrator is speaking from the Military Airlift Command (MAC) Headquarters Command Post, at Scott Air Force Base,Illinois. He mentions MAC missions supplying war materiel to Israel, in 1973, and the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948. Scene shifts to troops in military exercises, riding across fields in U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs) and walking with their weapons and gear. An M60 Patton tank moves along a muddy road, past the camera. Troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne division stand in formation on a ramp next to a MAC C-141 transport aircraft. They are about to be airlifted to Europe, to participate in War games, in Germany. Some of their armor and trucks seen offloading at a destination airfield. Major John Gray, Jr. of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is interviewed, standing in front of a C-141 aircraft from the MAC 62d Airlift Wing, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. UH-1 (Huey) helicopters deploying infantry in a field and moving away as the troops advance during an exercise. M113 APCs moving past the camera. MAC C-141s landing in Germany as they airlift the U.S. troops who participate in these exercises.Several C-141s taxiing on the airfield. A MAC C-5 Galaxy aircraft with its nose hatch open and armored vehicles that it carried, parked in front of it. Closeup of turret on an M60 medium main battle tank. View of the tank being loaded into a C-5 and view inside the aircraft as the tank is maneuvered in its cargo hold.
U.S. Army troops and equipment being delivered to remote locations by air and by short field landing techniques, in C-130 aircraft
U.S. Army infantry making their way through a lightly wooded area during training exercise. Field artillery crew firing an M114 155mm howitzer. Troops riding on a tank. Soldiers in the field firing a mortar and a machine gun. Aerial view of a U.S. Army supply depot, filled with supplies. View of C-130 aircraft flying overhead, and then, of interior cargo compartment with supplies being discharged through its open rear door, and descending by parachutes in the so-called "Container delivery system." Next in a closeup, a C-130 in flight close to the ground, delivers a tank, which is pulled from its rear door by a large parachute. View of the tank safely skidding to a stop on the ground. A C-130 makes a short field landing on relatively unprepared terrain, raising clouds of dust as it reverses its propellers. Troops quickly exit through the open rear loading door, followed by an M47 light tank.
A Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft transports F-5 fighter jets and refuels in the air from a KC-135 tanker plane
C-5 Galaxy aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) are parked on the ramp at McClellan Air Force Base, California, surrounded by vehicles with various cargoes to be loaded. The fuselage of an F-5E Tiger II fighter jet, with wings folded beside it, is being loaded into one C-5. Glimpse of the loading process, from inside the C-5. Nose of an F-5 disappearing into the cargo compartment. (Narrator states that eight F-5s are loaded into this single C-5.) The loaded C-5 taking off toward the camera. View of a C-5 during in-flight refueling. View inside the cockpit, of pilots at the controls and of the refueling probe from the Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft ahead and above the C-5. A flight engineer at his control station. View of the refueling probe, from the tanker aircraft. View of the aerial refueling from another aircraft, in flight (unseen). Scene shifts to civilian narrator speaking at MAC Headquarters Command Center in Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
MAC C-141 aircraft transports shipments for the National Science Foundation as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) aircraft lands in Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze. A person enters a National Science Foundation Center. People disembark the plane. Unload the equipment. Numerous vehicles at the base. Plane takes off with the shipment to Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California. Scripps Institute of Oceanography conducts research for the National Science Foundation. Frank S Todd of the Hubbs Sea World Research Institute talks about the airlifting of penguins by C-141 used for behavioral studies.
Willie Hoppe, Three Cushion Billiard Champion gives exhibition at servicemen center.
Willie Hoppe, Three Cushion Billiard Champion during an exhibition. Officers and dignitaries at a billiards table with cue sticks in hand. Willie Hoppe in the center. Willie Hoppe takes his first shot. People watch him play. He teaches a lady officer. Another woman takes a shot. Officers and dignitaries clap. Billiard Champion exhibits his performance. Officers and dignitaries keep their caps on the table and the champion plays his game.
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