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Airmen examine Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber's in flight target practice at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

Crew Chief assists Pilot to alight from F-84 Thunderjet at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Crew members sit down to watch a film. F-84 Thunderjet and MB-3 Red Bird in flight. Gatling gun fires from the tail of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber, with F-84 Thunderjet in the background. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked on ground shows maneuverability of turret. Airmen examine the target aircraft MB-3 Red Bird, for hits and make notes.

Date: 1954
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022545
The ADC-SAC teams participate in the William Tell II competition from various Air Force bases in Florida, United States

The Aerospace Defense Command and Strategic Air Command exams in Florida, United States. Planes stationed at the Tyndall Air Force Base. The Aerospace Defense Command (ADC) teams in William Tell II competition at the Tyndall Air Force Base. The Martin B-26 Marauder takes off. Teams in U.S. Air Force Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and Convair F-102 Delta Dagger fire missiles and rockets at Q-2A targets. View of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing. The various squadrons being awarded for their performances. The U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress stationed at the McCoy Air Force Base. The planes take off. Navigation and refueling competition with B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress crews from McCoy Air Force Base. Pilots in the aircraft. Aircraft in flight. The U.S. Air Force KC-47 aircraft and the KC-135 Stratotanker crews from Homestead Air Force Base. Aerial view of the KC-135 Stratotanker inject refueling the KC-47 aircraft. Insignia of the Strategic Air Command wing. View of the trophy. Commander Thomas F. Hall gives the trophy to the winner, Commander of the 307th Bomb wing. Members of the squadrons receive the trophies.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067042
U.S. 306th and 91st Bomb Wing aircraft and personnel return to McCoy AFB, Florida and Glasgow AFB, Montana

U.S. Air Force (Strategic Air Command) B-52 bombers land back in the U.S. after 6 months deployment in Southeast Asia, during the Vietnam War. United States 306th Bomb Wing planes and crews return back to McCoy Air Force Base in Florida, and those of the 91st Bomb Wing return to Glasgow Air Force Base, in Montana. Both units had been operating out of Andersen Air Force Base, in Guam. The commander of 306th, Colonel Earl L. Johnson steps from the last B-52 to return to McCoy AFB. He meets his daughter and wife. Men take pictures in the background. Officers stand in the a group. He shakes hand with local officials. Crewmen with their luggage. A KC-135 Stratotanker taxis as it brings home ground crews and other support personnel. Relatives of the crewmen wait to meet them. They step from the plane. A banner reads '306th Bomb Wing Reception Center Happy Day'. The airmen enter a hangar and go through customs. The airmen meet their relatives. The scene changes from Florida, to Montana, where the final U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress of 91st Bomb wing arrives at Glasgow Air Force Base. "McNamara's Band," playing kazoos, pot, and other contrived instruments, greets the arrivals. Colonel George Phieffer Jr., Commander of 91st bomb Wing greets his wife and others. Ground crews and other support personnel also meet their families.

Date: 1967
Duration: 5 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047101
The U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division participating in Exercise "Wind Chill" in Canada during March, 1954

Opening scene shows U.S. Army airborne troops in severe cold weather gear assembling on a snow covered ramp in front of a hangar at the U.S. Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, in Canada, during a military exercise known as "Wind Chill" in March, 1954. An officer takes charge of them and they march off in loose formations. Closeup of the officer marching alongside the troops. He wears an 11th Airborne Division patch on his left sleeve. A USAF C-47 aircraft is seen in the background. Later a C-124 aircraft is also seen in the background. View of a slate noting the exercise (Wind Chill),date: 17 March, and location: Harmon AFB. Scene shifts to the Harmon Air Force Base headquarters building, where a large half globe map of the Northern hemisphere is displayed with "6602nd Air Base Group" written boldly on its side. View of the Headquarters building with sign reading: "Ernest Harmon HEADQUARTERS Air Force Base."

Date: 1954, March 17
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022813
Air Transportable Hospital unit from England Air Force Base, Louisiana, provides a dispensary for , Vietnamese refugees and Air Force personnel stationed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

Opening scene shows sign at front of some buildings reading:"23rd Air Transportable Hospital, England AFB, LA." ( This sign refers to the home base, England Air Force Base, Louisiana, of the hospital unit providing medical services at the Vietnamese Refugee camp in Eglin AFB, Florida.) Camera pans over to a large olive drab tent. Next, two field ambulances are seen parked in grass next to wood-reinforced canvas tent structures. Several Vietnamese civilians stroll up to the entrance of one and stand there. Partway inside is a woman wearing a traditional Vietnamese conical hat (non la), pulled down over her shoulders. The hat is red in color.

Date: 1975, May 16
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050946
U.S. Army Airborne troops being transported by U.S. Air Force C-124 aircraft to Thule Greenland during Operation "Wind Chill" in 1954

Opening scenes show interior of a U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster aircraft, Model A, filled with U.S. Army Airborne troops seated in its cargo compartment. Closeup of one trooper reading a magazine. Closeup of two smiling for the camera. Views of troopers napping and reading. Troopers looking out a window. A trooper wearing life vest checking his rifle. Brief view of radio operator at his station in the aircraft. View from behind the flight engineer at his station as he makes engine adjustments. The pilot in left seat of the cockpit. Closeup of throttles and mixture controls in cockpit. Navigator looking over charts. View of cockpit from just behind it. Flight engineer, again, at controls. Aircraft radios. Navigator plotting course using Weems plotter. View of running engine from cockpit. View of number 4 engine from cockpit. Views of Greenland Icecap from cockpit. Extended aerial views of C-124 in flight. It has wingtip heaters but no radome in the nose. "Troop Carrier, United States Air Force" is painted on its fuselage. C-124 aircraft parked on the ramp at Thule Air Base, Greenland. One has tail number 1092. A C-124 taking off.

Date: 1954, March 17
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022815