A U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel briefs SAC U-2 reconnaissance aircraft aircrews about aerial reconnaissance mission. They synchronize watches. Another officer in front of same map. An aircrew member engaged in flight planning working on a map, with a pencil in hand during Cuban Crisis.
U-2 reconnaissance aircraft lands at McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando, Florida. U.S. Air Force technicians place tape in recorder and check the recorder.
V- (A-4) rocket takes off from wooded area at Peenemunde Rocket Centre in Ostvorpommern, Germany, during World War 2. Rocket rises cleanly with well-defined burning gas jet at its tail. Test and tracking equipment seen positioned near the launch pad. The missile continues its flight until out of sight.
A4 missile (V-2 rocket) on launch pad at Peenemunde Rocket Centre on Usedom Island in Ostvorpommern, Germany. Missile launches in air. A launch tower supporting the missile. Launch pad is surrounded by trees. Views of missile in air.
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
View from U.S. Army Air Forces airplane flying low over a plateau overlooking Japanese town where fires are burning from prior strafing attacks, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, near end of World War 2. Pilot banks sharply flying over a burning building. Gun camera view of strafing attack on crossroads town already burning from earlier attacks. Strafing attacks on coastal town, with fires burning. Hazy view of area from higher altitude. View from the aircraft as pilot rolls it over the terrain.
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