Large crew of Hurricane Hunters board a WC-121N Lockheed Super Constellation of Airborne Early Warning Squadron FOUR (VW-4). The aircraft takes off flying directly over the camera at U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Aerial view of the WC-121N in flight. Aerial view of storm clouds. A dropsonde being launched from the aircraft. View of cabin interior with crew members at their stations. Radio operator keying message. A sailor annotating a weather map with latest data. The USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4), reversing course due to weather warning. Two F9F-8 aircraft deploying to avoid storm. Commercial store fronts at shore boarded up for protection. Women and a boy boarding up their home in Puerto Rico for a 1960 (likely) or 1961 (possibly) hurricane storm. Men placing ropes across their roof to lash it down against wind. Water and wind driving across a city street. Several cars driving through heavy winds and rain. Trees bending in hurricane winds. Coastal flooding occuring. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of WC-121N Hurricane Hunter aircraft. Crew coping with turbulence back in the cabin. The VW-4 Logo.
A United States Army Air Force air show in Cleveland, Ohio. USAAF Generals standing outside a building. 'Administration' written on the top of the building entrance. USAAF General Carl Andrew Spaatz and a civilian standing on the steps of the building. A group of officers and civilians headed by General Spaatz come out of the building. General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg accompanies General Spaatz down a walk towards a staff car. General staff getting into the staff car. Other officers walking down the steps from the building. General Curtis Emerson LeMay walks down the steps towards the staff car. A convoy of staff cars drives away. The cars go down a road headed by a motorcycle escort. General Spaatz walks up onto a ramp erected near the nose of a USAAF F-80 Shooting Star. An F-80 Shooting Star on display in the building. A speaker's stand erected near the airplane. The speaker introduces General Nathan Farragut Twining who rises and bows followed by General LeMay. Other notables including General Ira Eaker, Major General Elwood Quesada, Major General Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, General Thomas S. Power, Major General Carbee Craigie, Spaatz and General Anderson. General Anderson standing on the speaker's stand opens the ceremony. A singer performs.
United States Air Force (USAF) Forward Air Controllers (FACs) in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese observer seated in a USAF O-1F Bird Dog aircraft. The wheel of the aircraft move. An FAC team is briefed in a forward area. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) troops firing in the background. A briefing map shows troops positions and suspected Viet Cong positions. A Province Chief briefs SSF and USAF personnel on a field. An O-1F aircraft circles overhead. ARVN troops firing in a battle line.
United States Park Police and Washington DC Metropolitan Police mobilize to close down the 1971 May Day anti-war protesters’ gathering in West Potomac Park. Helicopter in sky at night. Police car at night. United States Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police, dressed in riot gear, raid the West Potomac Park in early morning, giving orders to campers to vacate the park by noon or face arrest. Police vans arrive in West Potomac Park. Hippies carry their belongings as anti Vietnam war protest ends. Hippies with trumpet and clarinet. Police officer gives out orders to hippies using a megaphone, saying those "who don't leave the area are in violation of the law and will be arrested." Hippies carry their backpacks, paraphernalia such as flags, and walk out of park on foot. Some leave the campsite by car. A police officer talks on walkie talkie. A vandalized police van, with graffiti written on it reading, "VC RULE IT," “MAY DAY”, “MAO”, and “PIG” drives away. Volkswagen Type 2 camper vans drive away from park. Protesters pack up their belongings and leave along with their dogs. Policeman says on camera to reporter, "everyone is supposed to be leaving now” Park police holding batons ask sitting campers to leave. A group of hippies singing and clapping in defiance as they are surrounded by policemen. Policemen arrest a handful of sitting protestors. A female Metropolitan Police officer holds a woman hippie who is shouting insults and expletives at the policewoman, saying, "why don't you get off your phony eyelashes!" and "Take off your girdle and your false tits!" and “stop feeling me up you f*ggot woman!!" A policeman asks the girl her name and she swears when responding, “None of your business a**hole!” Camera zooms close to hippy's face as she shouts “You are all f*cking pigs! All of you!” at the police.
Period dramatization: Vickers Wellington bomber in flight over RAF Mildenhall air field during World War 2. Vickers Wellington OJ-F navigator removing maps from his pack. Pilot and copilot seen through bomber cockpit window at night. The commanding officer radios his crew. View of nose gunner at night as he replies, "I'm OK skipper." Another crew member puts on an oxygen mask and replies. Crew members each reply, including radio operator at his controls, who says, "well, it seems to all be here, sir." Commanding pilot communicates with the copilot inside cockpit, saying, "hello second pilot, ready to do some oil pumping?" The copilot replies, "that's all a second pilot's for!" “Freihausen, here we come” says the commander (Note: Freihausen is a fictitious location). Vickers Wellington OJ-F , part of No. 149 Squadron RAF, in flight at night.
United States aircraft carrier in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. Men working on deck of Essex-class USS Hancock (CV/CVA-19) aircraft carrier. An A-1 Skyraider (VA-215 “Barn Owls” of the United States Navy) is seen loaded and ready with wings folded. Ordnance crew carry rocket to a Vought F-8 Crusader. Ordnance crew attaching the Sidewinder rocket to the rack on the side of the Vought F-8 Crusader. Men stand near a Douglas A-1H Skyraider unfolding its wings. Bombs are seen attached to the bomb racks under the wings of Douglas A-1H Skyraider aircraft. Ordnance crew loading 250 1b. bombs under the starboard outboard station of a Douglas A-1H Skyraider. Squadron aircraft parked on flight deck. A crewman looking through binoculars down onto the flight deck of the USS Hancock. Radar moving beside crewman. Captain Frank B. Stone (Commander of the USS Hancock) and Captain H.S. Matthews Jr. (Executive officer) reading a map together. Captain Stone is seated in a chair holding some official paper work, Captain Matthews standing alongside Captain Stone with a map. Crew men pulling rockets on wheels on the mess deck.