Official activation of the IBM 7090 Electronic Data Processing System, SAC (Strategic Air Command) Headquarters, Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Views of computer room with EDP system in operation including magnetic tape drives, card reader, computer console. Airmen place reel of magnetic tape drive spindle.
Various helicopters and aircraft at Andrews AFB, Maryland. An aerial view of the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument. An aerial view of Ft. Lesley McNair War College. Aerial views of Andrews AFB showing a H-43 Huskie helicopter in flight, a H-21 helicopter touching down and a VC-137 taxiing on the runway.
Film opens showing a nondescript blue building with a white shed attached. A tall signal tower stands nearby. View shifts closer to the buliding. A large truck is parked across the street. Sign near the building reads: "635th MMS, RACAF Field Office. U.S. Air Force airmen leave the building and peruse bulletin boards on the white shed. Inside the building, several airmen are seen seated at control stations observing large visual displays. One of the airmen makes marks on his display, while one of the other airmen is speaking into a microphone at his position. Closeup of airman annotating information inside display boxes (representing storage locations in the facility).Sequence is interrupted briefly, as cameraman begins new slate while focused on the center airman with the microphone, who then resumes speaking into the microphone, while also annotating the diagram in front of him. Similar views continue to end of film.
U.S. Air Force munitions handlers unload M117 General Purpose Bombs from a flat bed truck trailer. They roll them by their tail fins and then strap them one by one onto an MJ-1A/B Aerial Stores Lift Truck (Jammer) which they then use to raise each bomb up into a slot in a multi-bomb storage rack. View from storage rack as the team of two handlers approaches transporting an M117 bomb to be placed in the rack. Another munitions handler helps secure the bomb into the rack. The team continues to move bombs into the rack. View of a fully loaded rack of bombs on its low mobile trailer, and then view of being pulled from the area by a tractor truck.
PT-10 rescue boat underway. Pontoon of SA-16 taxiing. Two Air Force PT-10 rescue boats. PT-10 rescue boat near life raft. Men lifting stretcher baskets from water to deck of PT-10 rescue boat. Two men remove life vests. Cadets watch the operations. Men board PT-10 rescue boat. Sailors alert and run out to PT-10 rescue boat.
General activities at Eglin Field show preparation for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. U.S. General Doolittle stands with the pilots and talk. U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell parked in the background. Crewmen work on the wheel of a B-25 and General Doolittle looks at them. A pilot looks out from the window of the plane. General Doolittle stands with a pilot and talks to him. Crewmen and pilot stand around a B-25. A B-25 inside a hangar. Crewmen seated on a trolley. B-25s parked in a line. A crewman on a ladder works on a jet engine.
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