Nuclear weapon safety strategies employed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Shows aircraft alert training drills related to launch of nuclear weapons. U.S. Air Force personnel work on the controls in a control room of an air base. Men answer phone calls. An alert order being received in a coded language. An alarm being sounded and airmen scramble and run from their rooms and billiards table to the aircraft at the base. Crew members enter waiting bomber aircraft and put on their flight gear and breathing apparatus. Controllers decode the message separately and then compare it. Aircraft commanders being instructed. A cocoa alert being sounded and aircraft taxi along a runway. Scene shifts to aerial view of a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber aircraft in flight, which narrator indicates is among aircraft that are airborne at all times and prepared to proceed to a target. View of pilot and copilot in the cockpit of the B-52 bomber aircraft. Aerial view of B-52 aircraft banking to right side. View of different crew members such as bombardier and navigator in B-52 aircraft as they separately confirm interpretation of an incoming message. View of Republic F-105 Thunderchief aircraft parked readying for takeoff on runway. Another fighter aircraft preparing for takeoff (F-11 ?). A surface missile being readied for launch. A missile being launched from an underground missile silo, taking off and emitting a fiery flare.
U.S. Marine amphibious assault training during World War II. jeep on the beach at Camp Pendleton. Dunes on the beach are marked in places with large signs of various kinds. landing craft partially ashore. One is adrift in the surf. A vehicle flying some sort of exercise flag goes down the beach and stops near a group of marines and some boxes in the surf. View from stern of a landing craft underway. Two Navy Grumman TBF aircraft buzz the beach. Landing craft maneuvering near the beach. A vehicle being lowered from attack transport ship into a landing craft. Several transport ships and a Navy dirigible are seen out from the beach. F6F aircraft buzz the transport from which film is shot. A landing craft approaching the beach. View forward from landing craft as a jeep with two occupants leaves and drives through the surf.
Allied troops head towards Anzio, Italy during World War II. LST -358 (Landing Ship Tank) underway in the Mediterranean Sea with U.S. General William Campbell and Colonel Karl F. Glos on the bridge of the LST. The two officers talk to each other. General Campbell, Colonel Glos and the Captain of the LST F.E. Clerk look at a map. A chaplain conducts catholic services aboard the LST. Soldiers with their heads lowered as they pray during the service.
United States Army Air Force B-17 aircraft in European Theater during World War II. United States 8th Air Force B-17 aircraft in flight. The B-17Gs in a formation flight of two. A B-17F aircraft in flight. Two B-17G and B-17F aircraft take off and climb.
Fueling of USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft parked on a dirt field in North Africa during World War II. A semi-tractor hauls two F-1A, 4,000 gallon fuel servicing semi-trailers past a B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft parked on a dusty field. Crew members walk from nose of B-26 to back to the semi-trailers. Crew chief scales propeller of the B-26 to reach the top of wing. Another crew member hands him the nozzle and he begins refueling one of the wing tanks. F-1A units passes and parks in front of B-26. Large grader and steam roller seen preparing landing field. USAAF A-20 Havoc bombers parked in the background.
Planning and moving of U.S. equipment, supplies, aircraft, and soldiers in preparation for attack at Munda Point on New Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands during World War 2. U.S. Marines and infantry massed up on Guadalcanal beach prepare for the invasion of Munda Point. Gasoline barrels are rolled on the beach. Crated food in cargo nets hoisted aboard ships. Equipment is loaded onto ships. U.S. combat aircraft assemble for an aerial offensive. U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur exits car and talks with another U.S. officer. General MacArthur, U.S. 13th Air Force Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, U.S. Army Air Force General Nathan Twining and U.S. Fleet Admiral William Halsey plan the attack on Munda Point. United States Army Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighters taxi and take off from an airfield. U.S. aircraft including P-40 Warhawk, P-39 Airacobra, U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat, TBF Avenger, B-25 Mitchell and B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight heading to destroy enemy positions on Munda. Japanese aircraft seen taking off and in flight.
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