The National Aircraft Show at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma, United States. A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress followed by four United States Air Force F-102A Delta Daggers in flight. C-130 turbo prop transport aircraft parked on ground and open for viewing. Actress Jayne Mansfield is seen being escorted by an Air Force officer among the crowd at the air show. View of three USAF F-101 Voodoo aircraft, F-101A Voodoos and F-102A Delta Dagger aircraft in formation. F-100C Super Sabre airplanes in close formation flight. USAF B-66 Destroyer, B-47 Stratojet, Convair B-36 and B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight, along with the F-106 Starfighter. Also seen is the B-66 light bomber in flight. A woman who won as Miss Denmark is present during the ceremony as photographers take her picture.
10,000 soldiers of United States 45th Infantry Division load their baggage into military trucks and bid good bye as they leave Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Troops move in trucks over a bridge as a plane flies overhead. People turn out in large numbers on streets to welcome the troops at their new headquarters in Abilene in Texas. Soldiers move to their tents. (World War II period).
Activities of the U.S. Army Air Service at Scott Field in Oklahoma, United States. A blimp RS-1 airship is towed out of a hangar. The crew near a control car. Twelve crewmen board the RS-1. It rises up and the engines start. The RS-1 in flight. Crewmen at controls. Lt. Major. General Orival Anderson signals through an electric signal system. The airship lands.
General Allen hosts visiting Latin American military officers at Fort Sill Oklahoma. They observe as U.S. Army Soldiers fire 155mm howitzers. General Allen and other senior officers watch the firing through binoculars. General Allen shakes hands and exchanges salutes with each of the visiting officers as they prepare to depart after the visit. (World War II period).
Major sports events of the year 1958. Tommy Bolt and Gary Player, a South African, battle it out in Tulsa, Oklahoma during Golfdom's National Open. A large crowd gathers to witness the game. Tommy Bolt wins the tournament.
Transportation and storage of crude oil after it has been pumped out of an oil well in the United States. Two men near a pump called a 'pumping jack' which is lifting crude oil from the first oil well drilled in the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Rods which are connected to 'pumping jacks' move back and forth. A fence . 'Tank farms' in which crude oil is stored. A man stands on the top of the stairs of a tank farm.
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