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Search for survivors after collapse of U.S. Air Force Radar Station (Texas Tower No. 4,TT-4) in the Atlantic ocean, off Long Island.
Search and rescue efforts after the destruction of Texas Tower Number 4, a U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command Offshore Radar station, in 1961. It was located off Long Island (39degrees48'N 72degrees40'W) and operated by airmen of the 646th Radar Squadron. It had experienced structural difficulties including damage from Hurricane Donna, on September 12, 1960 and was being scheduled for repair or dismantling. The USNS New Bedford and the USS Wasp were in the vicinity, on January 15, 1961, when the storm caused the Tower to collapse and sink.But they were unable to save anyone. In subsequent search and rescue operations, after the storm, The USS Sunbird (ASR-15) submarine rescue ship is seen at the site, along with sailors in a motor whaleboat from the USS Blandy (DD-943). A helicopter from the USS Wasp (CV-18)flies overhead. A scuba diver surfaces near the whaleboat and is taken aboard. A motor whaleboat from the USS Sunbird maneuvers in rough water. Whaleboats seen returning sailors and divers to the Sunbird.
Montage of U.S. scenes covering various parts of the nation
Opening scene shows a wheat field in the United States. White hot molten metal collected in ladles as a furnace is tapped. Sandstone buttes the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, looking North from the Art Institute. A white church in a suburban setting. The Japanese cherry trees in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC. A major river and an old fashioned stern wheeler River Boat cruising on it. A street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A roadway in Florida. A fishing village scene in New England. A formation of oil well pumps operating out West. Cowboys herding cattle. View of the Statue of Liberty with dramatic sunset behind it. Two U.S. Marines conversing as they look at the Manhattan skyline in New York City. Aerial view of the skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. View of Times Square in Manhattan, with the Astor Hotel visible (It was razed in 1967). Police officer directing traffic at an intersection. Two Marines walking past the United Nations Building in Manhattan, New York City. View of the General Assembly Building and construction site of the The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building being added in front of it. Camera pans upward showing Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Camera pans the U.S. Capitol building, followed by the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument (viewed from steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the reflecting pool, in Washington, DC. A Marine color guard marches across the lawn in front of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park Virginia, as the Marine Band marches and plays. Closeup of the Memorial with American flag flying above it.
Meeting of the NATO Military Committee to address a trouble spot warranting their attention.
Cars drive up to NATO headquarters at the Palais de Chaillot (Palais de Chaillot 1 place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre - 75116 Paris) Paris. Inside some delegates to the NATO military committee are seen seated around a large round conference table. Closeup of some delegates as they deliberate about a trouble spot at a location in France, described in a newspaper that one holds up for all to see. The delegates are seated with National identities shown on place markers. German General Adolf Heusinger is the Chairman of the NATO military committee. Camera pans about to different delegates as the chairman asks for their comments and thoughts. It focuses briefly on delegate from Germany, then quickly to other delegates, not identified. Later it pauses on Norway, Turkey, and the U.S.A. NATO members are polled by the Chairman and vote unanimously to support the consensus position. Scene shifts to a steam whistle blowing at end of shift at a heavy industrial complex. Some workers depart on bicycles. Others leave by private cars. Steam and smoke rise from multiple smokestacks and other sources at the plant. Scene shifts to airbase where two jet fighters with single bubble canopies and twin intakes, taxi on a ramp. In the background several Dassault Mirage III aircraft are seen parked in a line. The taxiing aircraft are headed toward two more like them that have just arrived and parked on the ramp. The pilots move those two forward as French pilots approach them. Closeup of pilot climbing out of the cockpit. View of the NATO conference table being abandoned for the day. In the headquarters, A man walks about, where machines are seen that have transmitted the results of the day's meeting and decision, to all the NATO member nations. NATO staff chefs in a planning session. View of the empty NATO conference room.
People at the Illinois State fair and various sporting and entertainment events in Illinois, United States, in the late 1940s
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
CAP cadets get into liaison aircraft at the University of Illinois airport in Illinois, United States.
International exchange of CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets in Virginia, United States. A Seabee aircraft with a sign on it that reads 'University of Illinois'. A man checks the gasoline in the plane at the University of Illinois Willard airport (Tolono Township, IL, USA). A gasoline truck pulls up near the plane. A stationary aircraft on a flight line. Foreign CAP cadets get into the cockpit of the Seabee aircraft and work on the controls. Aircraft lined up. Cadets climb into the cockpit of a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft. The engine runs and the aircraft taxis. A hangar in the background. Foreign cadets get into the cockpit of a liaison aircraft. An Italian cadet gets into a cockpit. Cadets climb up the cockpit of Navion aircraft. The aircraft taxis along. Cadets enter other liaison aircraft.
Planetarium and other educational sites, children observe a poultry model, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Planetarium and other educational sites in Chicago, Illinois United States. Mother and her child enter the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (1300 S DuSable Lk Shr Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago. A couple also enters. Exhibitions inside the planetarium include displays about various planets and the solar system. Scene changes to a new location in an educational center or museum. Children look inside a model to learn hatching of eggs. A working model of railway station and model trains operating.
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