Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A photo intelligence personnel opens a door and lets in two personnel. Two other men enter the room pushing a trolley loaded with cartons of film. A personnel shuts the door. The film being signed for. A personnel puts a note on a chart on a wall. A personnel opens a door and lets in a few men. 'Special Projects Laboratory' written on the door.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A photo intelligence personnel brings in film, hands it to another personnel working on an equipment and leaves. The film is processed and spliced. Two personnel work on a machine. One of them leaves. He goes in through a door and looks at a print of a photograph brought in by another personnel.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot in a chair near a pre breathing apparatus in the United States. An airman adjusts the oxygen bottle of the apparatus in the mouth of the pilot. He walks to the apparatus and puts on a pair of headphones. The airman checks the pressure suit won by the pilot. The pilot gets up and walks away from the apparatus while carrying an oxygen cylinder.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot is briefed by operations and intelligence officers in the United States. People, including a pilot, in a briefing room. An officer walks in. The officer and the pilot sit in chairs in front of a wall map. An officer briefs the pilot by pointing at the map with a pointer. He walks out. Another officer walks in and briefs the pilot. Yet another officer comes in for the briefing. The pilot and the officer sitting in the chairs go through some papers. Two more officers brief.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft on a runway in the United States. It takes off and climbs into clouds. Airmen wheel equipment on dollies out of an Operations Building. The dollies are pushed back into the Operations Building.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. Airmen walk towards the aircraft and arrange plywood sheets around it to shield the operation. A dolly loaded with equipment is pushed near the aircraft. The equipment is uncovered and loaded in the aircraft. An officer supervises the loading. The equipment is hoisted into the Q-bay ( equipment bay ) of the aircraft.
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