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.
Project Cirrus, in the Netherlands, 1951. Film is devoted to views of Norwegian air crews and their de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft, posing where they are encamped at an airfield in the Netherlands. Camera pans over parked aircraft an shows closeup of markings of Norwegian Squadron 336 on aircraft fuselage. A pilot poses, looking skyward, in opened cockpit of his plane. He wears a helmet with goggles raised atop it and his oxygen mask dangling below it. Closeup of Norwegian airman with "Norway" displayed on his left shoulder patch. He wears glasses and looks skyward. White clouds fill the sky in the background throughout the film. Two Norwegian fliers in flight suits pose looking away from the camera (in profiles). A vampire jet begins a takeoff roll as the film ends.
NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. A pair of de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft fly low over the field and make a tactical overhead approach. One is seen landing. Next a Gloster Meteor jet is seen heading toward the camera and passing low overhead. It climbs and makes executes an aerobatic maneuver and then speeds past the camera and lands. As it taxis on the airfield the background is rich in detail of the field and homes in the vicinity. Several Meteor aircraft are seen parked in a cluster on the field. The taxiing aircraft approaches them an parks among them.
During NATO Exercise Cirrus, in 1951, a formation of three C-119 aircraft of the U.S. 443rd Troop Carrier Group are seen high above the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland. They descend and land at the airfield.
A formation of seven de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft are seen above the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland, during NATO Exercise Cirrus, in 1951. They peel off and commence landing in a tactical trail formation at the airfield. The camera follows the first to land as it passes two C-119 aircraft of the U.S. 443rd Troop Carrier Group on the airfield. Next, one of the C-119s is seen taxiing.
Glimpse of a U.S. Navy pilot in the cockpit of an airplane, during the Korean War. He is pointing down at something. Next, a parachute is seen drifting rapidly in the wind as it descends. Pilot in aircraft hears about a pilot bailing out behind enemy lines. He is instructed to photograph the area. Next, a Navy 9F9 Panther aircraft is seen in the air. It has tail code "PP" indicating it is from the aircraft Carrier USS Essex (CV 9) with Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and Composite Squadron 61 (VC-61) from June 1951 to March 1952. . Glimpse of Navy ships in formation. View of Landing Signal Officer bringing in several 9F9 Panther aircraft to land on deck of the USS Essex. These aircraft carry tail code "M" of Squadron VF-23 with Air Task Group 2, aboard the Essex from June 1952 to February 1953. Next, several Navy A-4 Skyraider aircraft come in to land. They display "S" tail codes of Squadron VF-54. They are followed by another 9F9. Scene shifts to photo interpreters and pilots studying the photographs for clues to where their parachuting pilot might be located. They discover a parachute in the photos, and circle it. Ship loudspeaker is seen as helicopter crews are alerted for rescue mission. A Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter takes off from the flight deck. Other pilots wait anxiously as the Helicopter returns to land on the Essex flight deck. The missing pilot is aboard and they help him from the helicopter, place him on a litter and cover him with blankets. His friend takes his picture.
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