United States Military personnel walk into a room in the Pentagon. Sign over a door reads 'Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff'. Airman works at draft table. Military personnel operating business machines and various communications equipment in the Pentagon. Sign over entrance at Headquarters USAF Communications Center and then also entrance of the Army Communications Center in the Pentagon. Military personnel talking, standing at a counter. Telephone operators and communication operators at work with large business machines. Hat rack with hats belonging to officers of various Nations. Joint Chiefs of staffs General Ridgway, Army; General Twining, Air force; Chairman Admiral Radford, Navy; General Cates converse with each other. Servicemen entering the Pentagon from the Potomac River entrance side.
View from moving boat on Potomac River as it approaches docks for "Suitland Hall" Air Force facility in Washington DC. Scene then changes to view of Andrews Air Force Base and building for the Headquarters of the Military Air Transport Service. A C-121 Constellation aircraft parked on airfield at Andrews Air Force Base. C-47 Skytrain taxis into parking space. Airman pushes hospital ramp up to C-47 Skytrain. Wounded man on litter carried out of the aircraft into waiting ambulance. View of Bethesda Naval Hospital and then a view of the Walter Reed Army Hospital building. Early 1950s era cars parked in front of the Senate Building in Washington DC. 1950s cars move by on roads and streets of Washington DC in front of Federal buildings. Exerior views of the Museum of Natural History, and of the Mellon Art Gallery and National Museum of Art. Inside the American National Air Museum, a close up view of the Bell X-1, USAF aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis.
Exterior building views of University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Washington University and American University. United State military personnel go through a rifle drill. Man on diving board doing backward somersault into a swimming pool. Group of U.S. military soldiers play billiards and also watch a movie. Couples dancing in the early 1950s, including some swing dancing moves. Football game being played between Bolling Air Force base and Quantico Marine base teams.
Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
C-5 Aircraft taxis to come to the runway. Narrator describes features of the C-5. Pilot and Copilot seated inside cockpit. 'Beware of Blast' written on side of the C-5 Aircraft. Airman explains about the flexibility and 28 wheels of the aircraft with the help of a model. Adapting to crosswind landing. Forward, aft, and level "kneeling" of the aircraft is shown. View of control panels inside the aircraft.
Pilot explains safe taxiiing of the C-5, with the help of a model. He emphasizes the need to care due to the sheer size of the overall aircraft, from nose to very high tail section and wing tip to wing tip, where outboard engines can be operating only 9 feet above areas outside of runway where foreign object damage could occur.
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