Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman takes a helmet and an MC-3A partial pressure suit from a rack and keeps them back after checking them in the United States. The airman helps a pilot in getting suited for a flight. He helps the pilot in donning the suit and putting on his shoes. Another airman comes in and hands over a helmet to the first airman who helps the pilot in putting it on. Another helmet is put on the previous one. The airmen helps the pilot in putting on gloves.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman helps a pilot. The pilot walks to a chair and sits in it. The airman helps the pilot in getting ready for a flight.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. Photo intelligence personnel examine aerial photographs of ships and plot their course by shadow in the United States. One of the personnel examines the photographs using a magnifying lens. The other one looks into a booklet and plots a course using a ruler and a pencil.
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.
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