Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Airmen leaving building. B-52 Stratofortress banking left. Atlas D missile launch and climb at Vandenberg AFB. Airmen in classroom with Convair instructor at desk. Car entering main gate at Vandenberg AFB. Missile launch crew entering blockhouse. Launch crew at consoles with view of countdown clock. Atlas engine ignition and lift-off. Instructors congratulating launch crew after successful firing. Airmen arriving in theater by bus, leaving bus and entering theater. Screen in theater showing Titan engine ignition and explosion on pad. Screen showing fueling operations at launch site. Students in classroom and USAF instructor at wall chart. USAF support personnel including supply men, switchboard operator, AP, cook, and office workers. Staff car driving to coffin shelter. Colonel gets out and looks around. Snow covered geodesic radome. DEW line station. Airman writing data on plotting board. Entrance to Offutt AFB. SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters building in background. SAC Command Post showing officers talking, watching weather map on TV monitor, and talking on red phone. High-speed printer. Control room showing airman at radarscope, wall clock, USAF Major on red phone, tape recorder unit operating, wall charts with weather and target data being presented. B-52 Stratofortress taking off and in flight. Atlas D being raised to launch position in coffin shelter. Major talking into red phone. Launch control team at consoles in launch control center. Team member pushing 'start' button. Atlas engine ignition, lift-off and climb. Colonel sitting in staff car, then getting out. USAF team inspecting silo launch facility under construction. Mobile check out vans drive past. Aerial view of silo facility under construction. Atlas erect in coffin launcher. Silo facility under construction. Titan missile on launch pad. View of Minuteman missile lift-off. Railroad train in mountains capable of carrying missiles. View of railroad tracks looking down from a moving train. Close up view of Missile man badge on officer's uniform pocket. Atlas missile launched.
A report covering the expansion and modernization of U.S. ICBM force, Norton AFB. Minuteman II missile on trailer truck. ICBM crew working around Minuteman II. Minuteman II erected. Test launch of Minuteman II at Cape Kennedy space center in 1964. Missile base under construction at Malmstorm AFB in Montana. Deactivation of first generation Titan I and Atlas D missiles, updating of Atlas for space boosters. Shrouded missile on trailer truck. Animated map of U.S. showing 14 air bases from where Titan I and Atlas D missiles are transferred to Norton AFB in California. Map shows Minuteman I turnover to SAC (Strategic Air Command) at Warren AFB in Wyoming. Minuteman I transfer ceremonies attended by military, state, and local dignitaries. Major General J. L. McCoy speaking at microphone. Minuteman control center building at Norton AFB. General McCoy with other officers discussing in conference. Officers on field looking over drawings for building new missile launch site.
Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters and construction of Minuteman II launch facility Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Underground silo opens up and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is erected. Crane hoisting missile. Missiles on trailer truck are transferred to hangers near Norton AFB in California. Shrouded Titan I (first generation) missiles in hangars which are going through deactivation process. Updating of Atlas D missiles for space boosters. Men at desk and officer at chart. Missile launched from air base. Engineers and workers working on missile components. Modifications of launch facility and missile at Vandenberg AFB in California. Officers in control center. Minuteman II missile test facility under construction at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota. Various launch facilities across U.S.
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) in the United States. The Commanding Officer of USS Wasp seated in his chair on the bridge. He hangs up his telephone. He gives orders to O.O.D.(Officer Of the Deck). He picks up another telephone. He hangs the telephone back after talking on the telephone. He leans over to speak to the O.O.D. The Commanding Officer speaks over a telephone on the bridge. He hangs the telephone and turns back around.
Seal of Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Image of rotating world globe. A map shows the location of the Atlantic on world map. View from bridge of a large warship underway in rough Atlantic waters. Heavy naval guns in view. Water breaks completely over the bow of the ship. A destroyer cruises by at high speed. Flotilla of warships including aircraft carrier and destroyers. Viewed from above, aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal (CVA-59) cruising at high speed in the Atlantic. A British, English Electric F.1 fighter is raised, from below, to a carrier deck. Point of view shot from cockpit of an aircraft as it is catapulted and takes off from aircraft carrier. View from beneath of U.S. Navy Douglas F4D fighter aircraft. F4D Skyray maneuvering in flight and releasing ordnance at top of climb. Aerial view of atomic bomb explosion in an ocean or sea.
Seventh Fleet Operations in Vietnam. A U.S. Marine Corps UH-34D helicopter in flight. A supply ship in the background. The flight deck of USS Princeton (LPH-5). Starboard bow of USS Seminole (AKA-104). The starboard beam of USS Seminole. An Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD) underway in the far background. A shoreline in the background. A U.S. Marine Corps CH-46A Sea Knight helicopter flies over the flight deck. Rotors of the helicopters in the foreground. Mountains in the background. Port beam of a ship underway. The UH-34D helicopter lands on the flight deck. High ranking officers debark from the helicopter. They are greeted by officers. They walk by several pallets of supplies. A UH-2A Seasprite helicopter in flight over the water. It lands aboard the USS Princeton. Supplies in the foreground. Men around a forklift. A man in a yellow shirt walks up to the side of the helicopter. The doors of the helicopter slide open. (Vietnam War period).
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