Interior of a supply building in Vietnam. SK-2 James F. O'Neill talks with a supply officer. The supply officer Trinhlong Hai, ensign in the Vietnamese Navy. They stand by the supply shelves. James F. O'Neill and Trinhlong Hai look over some of the supplies in the shelves. James F. O'Neill holds a small coil in his hands. Two large reels of wire on a hand dolly are being moved along the floor in the supply building. EN-1 Lloyd Roger Bandy talks with Vietnamese Chief EN Tran Hung Hoan. A sailor works with a metal lathe in a shop. A piece of metal being turned on the lathe. Lloyd Roger Bandy talks with the Vietnamese Chief talk in the background. A man grinds a valve. A liquid being poured on the valve while it is being ground. A hole is drilled in the engine block.
The activities and joint demonstrations by the United States Readiness Command (USREDCOM), Brass Key II at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft in flight over the target area. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II drops cluster bombs. Cluster bomb pods split in the air. Aerial view of attack on the ground targets. Heavy smoke arises from explosions. Tactical fighters hovering protective lay overhead. Air mobile assault begins. Armed helicopters escort the troop carrier formation into the landing zone. Airplanes in flight. Helicopters land. Troops come out of the helicopters. An airplane in flight. The airplane tows an artillery. A CH-54 Sky Crane in flight from a distance. CH-47 Chinooks bring artillery and other equipment. Handle boxes and howitzers suspend from a flying CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The CH-47 Chinook places the handle box and howitzer on the ground. Airplanes drop bombs on the target area. Heavy smoke arises from explosion. Helicopters fly in formation. General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark combat aircraft dropping bombs in flight. Soldiers move forward on the land. People watch the demonstration of army-air force coordination. Airplanes in flight. Paratroopers descend towards the land with the help of parachutes.
Actor Raymond Massey in an office discussing importance of American military readiness. Street scenes in Manhattan, New York City. View from buiding overlooking Times Square in Mahattan, with Astor Hotel at left. Camera pans up (northward). Shift to North American Air Defense (NORAD) command center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where U.S. Air Force men and women mark aircraft positions on plexiglass status board. During this exercise,NORAD Commander,General Laurence S. Kuter,USAF,with NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, at his side, picks up phone to alert defense forces. View of DEW line radar site where men monitoring radar screens pick up returns from two incoming bombers. A NORAD radar picket ship at sea and sailor inside detecting incoming bombers on his radar screen. An airborne Lockheed EC121 Radar picket aircraft and crew member inside detecting targets on his radar screen. Views of personnel at various NORAD centers sending and receiving detailed information about the detected aircraft. Canadian and U.S. officers communicating on "red telephone." General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon, consulting in NORAD headquarters command center. A Navy Captain on the "red phone." Klaxon horn alerts Royal Canadian Air Force intercepter crew who scramble to their aircraft. Canadian Avro CF-100 Canuck interceptors taking off. General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon engaged in the NORAD command center. Unidentified 4-star Air Force General using "red phone." SAC bombers on airborne alert. Air Force officer alerts interceptor squadron. Pilots scramble and run to their F-102 aircraft. F-102, tail number 53-107 taxiing from hangar. Pilots quickly entering their aircraft and being secured in cockpits. F-102s taxiing at high speed.BOMARC missile readied. Civil defense officials issue air raid alert.
Speed and altitude tests being conducted by X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. X-15 begins a solo flight into the stratosphere. Pilot Scott Crossfield seated in the cockpit of X-15. Mach meter indicator passes Mach two. Radar dish antenna recording the course of flight. Chase planes F-100F and F-104D in flight. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) officials take recordings on graph and look at radar screens. Pilot converses with the ground crew members. X-15 lands on Rogers Dry Lake in California. Vehicles parked next to the aircraft after its landing in ground.
United States Air Force NB-52A aircraft with X-15 under its wing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States preparing for its third flight. Vehicles and ground crew next to the aircraft. Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield in space suit. Final tests conducted before the take off. Engineers work on X-15 aircraft. Pilot Crossfield gets into the X-15 cockpit. Boeing NB-52A takes off from the runway with X-15 under its wing for its 3rd flight. Chase planes F-100F and F-104B fly along NB-52A. X-15 release from the mother aircraft and goes upward. Pilot speaks with ground crew members. Fire emergency is noted. Pilot in NB-52A looks from the cockpit window. X-15 heads for an emergency landing at Rosamond lake due to an ignition failure. X-15 lands but suffers a structural break failure on landing at Rosamond Dry Lake in California. Engineers and technicians inspect the aircraft and begin to repair the damage.
Preflight and post flight activities at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. Aerial view of Da Nang Air Base and fuel storage tanks on ground. Number of C-123 B Provider, United States Marine Corps F-4B Phantom, C-130B Hercules, Grumman HU-16B Albatross, F-100D Super Sabre and F-104C Starfighter aircraft parked on ground. United States Marine Corps tent area. (Vietnam War period).
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