An eight day clock on aircraft instrument panel. U.S. Air Force flight crew member packing gear, including cold weather clothing into his A-3 flight bag. Cargo being by means of the elevator into the cargo compartment of a Second Strategic Support Squadron C-124 Globemaster tail # 49-244, at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. B-36 strategic bomber seen in background. The men and equipment are headed to the Strategic Air Command's 509th Bomb Wing Forward Detachments at RAF Stations Mildenhall and Lakenheath, in England. (Note: This same aircraft, performing the same mission, successfully ditched in the North Atlantic on 23 Mar 1951, but no passengers or crew were ever recovered.).
Two U.S. airmen carrying large still photo camera from beneath a Convair RB-36 of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). The airmen place lens of carried camera directly in front of recording camera. A close-up of the still photo camera lens. (Sequence is repeated.)
Views of a decorated Christmas tree. Small girl playing with a doll near the tree.
U.S. Air force officers and NCOs attend a briefing session at SAC Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. Commander of SAC (Strategic Air Command), General Curtis LeMay, addresses the group. General LeMay is standing near a large wall map.
Interior of a building on a Strategic Air Command Base in the United States. Airmen preparing fly away kits. Two airmen closing lid on first fly away kit box. Two other men packing other kit. Views of two airmen packing equipment into the fly away kits.
Close-up sector scan on a radar scope. Two airmen in radar installation at an Air Base. Antenna on roof rotating.
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