Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola ascending, parachuted by Captain Killinger. Clouds in sky. Balloon with gondola in flight. Piasecki H-21 American helicopter circling the descending parachute during descent.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola in flight, parachuted by Captain Joseph Kittinger. Balloon ascends. Clouds in sky.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Balloon and gondola in flight, parachuted by Captain Joseph Kittinger. Views of balloon while descending. Piasecki H-21 American helicopter circling the descending parachute during descent. Mountains in the background. View of land.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Parachute descending and landing, parachuted by Captain Kittinger. Shows Piasecki H-21 American helicopter landing near parachute.
Captain Joseph Kittinger during Operation Excelsior III in the United States. Men running from Piasecki H-21 American helicopter to Captain Kittinger on ground. Medics help Captain Kittinger to come out of the parachute harness. Captain Kittinger smokes. Captain Kittinger boards H-21. H-21 lifting off and in flight.
Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.
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