A film on the life of sailors aboard U.S. Navy ships in the United States. Church services aboard a ship on a Sunday morning. A navy chaplain addresses sailors during a sermon. The chaplain talks to a patient in bed. He meets and gives guidance to other sailors. Cooks prepare dinner in a kitchen aboard the ship. A cook takes a roasted turkey from a table. The sailors seated at a table eat Sunday dinner. A sailor eating a roasted turkey leg.
Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha in Sarpy County, Nebraska. Radars and systems at Air Force Base. Office at three story below ground level. SAC (Strategic Air Command) officers cover cartons with a sheet. Ammunition stored. Looking Glass Air Borne Command Force center. Telephone, communication equipment and control systems used to keep track of things. SAC officers run, they get on trucks and go to air craft. Aircraft takes off. Pilot in plane. Rocket takes off. SAC headquarter.
Officer sitting at desk reading newspaper during Project Thunderstorm in the Ohio. United States calendar on wall in an Officer's office. United States covered with a large mass of clouds in sky. Officer looking up at clouds. Officers seated in room listening to lecture about the Thunderstorm Project. Instructor gives lecture on various types of clouds which are drawn on blackboard. Officer giving lecture on P-61 which is drawn on blackboard. P-61's parked on runway. Close-up views of cockpit and control areas of P-61. Civilian mounting movie camera on top blister of P-61. Mechanic checking special recording instruments in rear of P-61. Animated drawing of P-61. G3 officers in classroom listen to instructor's lectures. Mechanics install radar installations and transmitters in nose of P-61. Radar device seen spinning inside nose of P-61. United States P-61 in flight. Civilian cataloging motion picture film using a motion picture projector on a desk. Civilian installing motion picture camera in nose of a Northrop F-15 Reporter. Aerial view of Northrop F-15 Reporter in flight. AT-6 parked on runway. Camera installations in rear canopy of AT-6 also for use in surveying storm cloud formations. Pilot approaches AT-6 and climbs into cockpit of AT-6. AT-6 warms up before take off. AT-6 in flight.
A civilian records clouds in the sky in the Ohio. Civilian instructor gives civilian students lectures on weather research. Civilian weather observer releases balloon borne target and it rises high into sky.
Civilian climbs out of jeep and walks toward weather station in Ohio. Civilian checks recorders at weather station. Civilian releases balloon borne target and it rises high into the sky. Civilians operating weather recording instruments in a Quonset hut. Civilians release weather balloon containing weather recorders and it raises high into sky. Civilian marking weather recordings on charts. Civilians marking weather conditions on charts.
Views of various types of weather recording machines in Ohio. A man sees copy of weather map. Boards representing information about weather. A man drawing on a weather map. A machine indicates weather situation.