View inside mess tent set up on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany, to support personnel in NATO Exercise Cirrus, 1951. Cooks are seen preparing and cooking food in large trays, and placing some in strainers to be served. Scene shifts to cooks dispensing dinners to some NATO airmen as they pass along in a chow line.
Operation Jupiter. Wiesbaden Germany. A ramp wheeled to C-47 aircraft with foreign markings. Italian officers, Lieutenant General Urbani, Chief of Staff Italian Air force, and General Unia, a Wing Commander of Italian Air Force, greeted by Colonel Rich, Chief of Staff, 12th Air Force, and Colonel Roberts, Commanding Officer of Wiesbaden Air Force Base. Italian and American officers review an honor guard and get into a car. Nose of C-47 aircraft. Italian and American personnel stand by the door of plane. The plane taxis away.
Exercise Jupiter, Wiesbaden West Germany, September, 1951. (This was a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe. Among those on hand to observe the exercise was the SHAPE commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.) In opening scene, an Italian pilot in flight suit, leans into the cockpit of a De Havilland DH-100 Vampire jet plane displaying number 72 on it's nose, at Wiesbaden Air Force Base. A ground crewman connects an auxiliary power unit to the aircraft, as the pilot adjusts his helmet. Closeup of the Italian pilot reaching into the cockpit. A U.S. C-47 transport plane taxis in the background. Two other Italian pilots, in flight gear, appear nearby plus a U.S. Air Force flight line tug. The other pilots stroll around the Vampire jet. Next, the tug is seen moving away as other Italian pilots gather around Vampire jets on the flight line. The tug, carrying several Italian officers, backs up to jet number 72, and hooks up and tows away the auxiliary power unit.
View of Italian Dehavilland DH-100 Vampire jet planes parked on a flight line at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, in West Germany, during Allied forces Exercise Jupiter, in September, 1951, A U.S. Air Force A U.S. Air Force pilot, in flight suit, is perched on the wing of one, looking into the cockpit. Italian aircrew members are standing nearby. Closeup of the U.S. Pilot climbing into the cockpit of the Vampire jet. Closeup of him in the cockpit. He wears a side cap with Captain's bars insignia. He smiles as he peruses the controls and instruments in the aircraft. Several Italian Air Force officers stand and converse next to a Vampire Jet plane. One wears a flight suit. Another man joins them and gets ready to smoke a pipe.
Operation Jupiter, Wiesbaden, Germany. Pyramidal tent at Italian camp area. Italian officers discuss by the tent and strewn equipment outside the tent. De havilland DH-100 Vampire jet planes lined up on the Airbase.
Exercise Jupiter activities at Wiesbaden Airbase, West Germany. (This was a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe). An Italian Air Force officer and U.S.Air Force Sergeant J. Gormley stand on wing of an F-84E aircraft of the USAF 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron (86th Fighter-Bomber Wing). The Sergeant opens the plane's canopy and steps into the cockpit, as the Italian officer stands on a ladder to lean in and observe. The aircraft is No. 49-2220. Sergeant Gormley points out features of the cockpit.
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