NASA personnel speak on their headsets at the NASA command center before a Mercury-Atlas mission liftoff in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA personnel working behind the “Capsule Systems Monitor”. NASA personnel communicating with colleagues from their headsets. Some NASA personnel smoke cigars at work. Another personnel lights a cigarette. Men in military uniforms at a meeting with NASA personnel. A uniformed man looks at a chart or a map. An officer speaks to NASA personnel and military officials.
NASA personnel in front of the Mercury Space Flight Network (MSFN) plot board at the NASA command center. A woman works with her male colleagues at NASA. The woman writes on the screen. Close up of female NASA worker's face as she talks to her colleagues. NASA personnel speak on their headsets at the NASA command center before a Mercury-Atlas mission liftoff. NASA personnel gather at the command center. NASA personnel talks on the phone. NASA personnel, military, and Air Force officers in another room at the command center. Some of the personnel are smoking in the meeting. An officer leans down to plot a map on the table as his colleagues watch. He uses a ruler and a square to measure the map. The officer draws, with some measuring tools and a compass on the table. NASA personnel and military officers in separate rooms talking to their colleagues. A NASA personnel leans on a monitor. Two NASA personnel wearing headphones talk to each other. A military officer with some men in suits.
U.S. Military establishes new positions in the Aleutian Islands to support offensive against Japanese. A convoy of U.S. ships sail through foggy waters in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Dozens of U.S. Army soldiers stand on the deck of a ship. Distant view of a harbor near Kiska Island. Under the cover of the fog, U.S. soldiers climb aboard small assault boats. The boats arrive at the island and soldiers spill ashore carrying supplies. Close ups of vehicles and large weaponry coming off Higgins boats (LCVPs) onto the island. Long human chains "bucket brigades" move supplies onto the beaches from the boats. Soldiers wade through the shallow water, laden with supplies. Wider shot of the beach with stacks of supplies and soldiers moving about. An artillery gun rotates, alert and scouting the area.
Map of the pacific including Japan, Aleutian Islands, and Alaska. Illustrated lines show various distances from the U.S. mainland to Tokyo and locations in the Aleutian Islands. Graphic zooms in on Dutch Harbor. Scene changes to footage showing the aftermath of Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor, which took place on June 3 and 4, 1942, during WW2. A large cloud of smoke rises in the distance, more close by. People use hoses to spray out fires. Scene changes to present establishment of a U.S. position in the Aleutians. Shot of General Eugene M. Landrum, who sits on a box, smoking a pipe, wearing a scarf and hat. Wide panoramic shot of U.S. camps being assembled near a beach. Anti-aircraft gunners stand alert beside their weapon. A team of men carry a large roll of field wire through the grassy terrain to establish lines of communication.
U.S. troops gathered around a tent, eating, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. A line of soldiers carrying plates and bowls and cups waits to receive food. A man cooks food on a stove. Soldiers sit on the ground eating and warming by a fire. Wide view of the beach with ships and cranes out on the water. Crates of supplies stacked on the beach, soldiers move about. A soldier stacks an ammunition crate onto a large pile. Dozens of unfinned cylindrical bomb bodies on the shore. A crane, tractor, and bulldozer are unloaded from a boat. Panoramic view of a wide flat area to be built into an airfield, covered in shallow lakes.
Bulldozer works to clear earth for the construction of an airfield in the Andreanofs, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Wide panoramic views of the flat space to be used for aircraft, covered in shallow water. With map visuals, narrator describes that the U.S. Forces are in fighter range of the Japanese position at Kiska Island, and within bomber range of the Japanese position at Attu Island. A B-24 bomber aircraft moves across the makeshift airfield. U.S. soldiers standing on ladders work on aircraft engines. A bomb is loaded into an aircraft. Soldiers stand and talk, examine papers. U.S. Army Air Force troops walk toward a B-24 Liberator and spin the propellers by hand.
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