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Missile door opens upon rocket launch, malfunctioning missile falls from sky

Missile launch malfunction at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California USA. Missile silo door opens as a missile launches from its underground launch facility. Shortly after launch, missile falls with a curve trajectory as seen from its white exhaust plume.

Date: 1966
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078676
Missile flips and explodes as it malfunctions

Missile launch malfunction at Vandenberg Air Force Base California USA. A missile flips after falling, only to explode shortly after.

Date: 1966
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078677
Malfunctioning missile flips and spins as it falls from the sky shortly after launch

Missile launch malfunction at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California USA. A failed missile spins as it falls from the sky.

Date: 1966
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078678
Missile crumbles and falls from tower before launch.

Missile structural failure of missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Missile crumbles to launch pad before launch as it looses its structural integrity.

Date: 1966
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078679
President Johnson awards the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Robert E. O’Malley

United States Marine Corps (USMC) Sergeant Robert Emmett O'Malley receiving the Medal of Honor from President Lyndon Baines Johnson. An orchestra plays at the Federal Office Building Plaza (J.J. Pickle Federal Building, 300 E 8th St, Austin, TX 78701) in Austin, Texas. The seal of the United States President on display. President Johnson gives his remarks before the awarding ceremony. “I can think of only one gift sufficient to honor men like this: We can assure this man and we can assure every man who wears our uniform that their cause is a good cause, that the principles they stand for are sound principles, that the battle they are fighting deserves their bravery. To back a commitment honorably given: that is a good cause. To shield a young nation from aggression: that is a good cause.” United States Marines in full blue dress uniform stand at attention. Marine corp band members in red uniform are also at attention. The audience clapping during President Johnson’s speech. President Johnson puts the Medal of Honor on Sergeant Robert Emmett O’Malley. The president also presents a framed certificate to O’Malley. Sergeant O’Malley smiles as he wears the Medal of Honor. President Johnson and Sergeant O’Malley shake hands with USMC officials.

Date: 1966, December 6
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080577
U.S. Air Force B-52 crews begin Operation Arc Light missions to Vietnam from U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, during the Vietnam War.

Opening scene shows a message being received on a teletype machine from the U.S. 3rd Air Division. Two Air Force officers are seen seated at desks. One is labeled "Ops-Plans." The on duty operations officer passes on the message to his staff where it goes through operation, operation planning, maintenance, ordinance and armament. Technicians preparing the guns and loading ordnance for the mission, on a B-52 aircraft. Air crew members ate seen assembled in their briefing room, Glimpse of the mission briefing officer at a podium. View of wristwatch as narrator speaks of navigators synchronizing their watches. A B-52 crew stepping from their crew bus as they arrive at their aircraft. As other crew member climb aboard the plane, their aircraft commander reviews the aircraft status, as reflected on its Form 781, with the aircraft crew chief. Crew members then begins a pre-flight walk-around inspection, starting with the landing gear and wheel wells. The last of the crew enter the aircraft via a bottom hatch, which a ground crewman then fastens from the outside. Inside, crew members are seen going through pre-flight check lists at their respective duty stations. Back at the Command Post, the duty controller receives the order via secure telephone, from 3rd Air Division headquarters, to execute the mission. He informs the Aircraft Commander and the B-52 starts its engines. View of throttles being pushed forward in the cockpit, as the aircraft begins takeoff. View from ground as the B-52 takes off and flies overhead. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in the cockpit wearing helmet and oxygen mask. Hand of radar observer is seen as he checks out his equipment. Aerial closeup of a B-52 in flight. View of radar observer placing the aircraft controls in so-called "Second Station," with the autopilot controlled by the bombing navigation computer. Inflight closeup of B-52 opening its bomb bay doors and starting to drop bombs. Glimpse of the aircraft commander in cockpit and of B-52 aircraft in flight, as narrator states they are returning to U-Tapao Airbase,or to Guam. The aircraft in the mission are seen landing back at U-Tapao Airbase, Thailand, where other B-52s are parked on the ramp. They taxi to their parking places and crew members board buses back to operations for a mission debriefing.

Date: 1967
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047099