Operations of U.S. Navy Carrier Group 5 (CVG-5) aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Valley Forge (CV-45) during the Korean War. View of interior of control room. F4U Corsair aircraft of Squadrons VF-53 and VF-54 being armed while parked on flight deck with wings folded. Several start engines and begin to taxi. Rockets are mounted under their wings and bombs under their fuselages. One is given signal and commences takeoff roll. Two AD-4 Skyraiders, of Squadron VA-55, also take off from the carrier. All the aircraft seen display the CVG-5 tail code "S."
A United States Army Lieutenant General and a Navy Admiral, seated under a grass covered canopy with group of French officers. The Commander of French Forces in Indochina, General Henri Eugene Navarre, looks through binoculars. A flight of two American Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter aircraft drop bombs and pass overhead. French soldiers cross a stream in boats and advance on the opposite shore. French Army engineers assemble a pontoon bridge over which camouflaged army trucks then drive.
North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, during the Cold War. NORAD Commander, USAF General Lawrence S. Kuter and Canadian Deputy enter the control room. Airman reads incoming teletype message and updates data on status board. View of a NORAD building. Air Defense controllers viewing radar screens. Two F-102 fighter intercepters are scrambled. They fire air-to-air missiles. A BOMARC missile is fired. Nike missiles are fired.
Cold war exercise dramatization showing actions by NORAD (North American Air Defense) control room (war room) staff in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and Strategic Air Command (SAC) in missile defense response to enemy attack. A Navy ship's captain reports enemy detected on radar. NORAD pilots run to Royal Canadian interceptor aircraft and take off. NORAD Commander, U.S. Air Force General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy seen in NORAD Command Post. They phone another 4-star general who picks up a red phone to call the White House. SAC bombers are seen in flight. U.S. Air Defense F-102 interceptors are scrambled.
Nike and Bomarc missiles readied during missile defense readiness exercise in Cold War. (Simulated) enemy aircraft detected on radar. NORAD F-102 interceptors in flight. NORAD Command Post. NORAD Dew line detects enemy intruders. Information is updated on NORAD Command Post displays at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. General Lawrence S. Kuter, NORAD Commander, actuates red speaker phone to the White House.
Members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO, picket a Woolworths store in New York City. Members of Union Locals, 23, 40, 62 and 66 are seen carrying signs as they march in front of the F.W. Woolworth store. Some of the signs read: "Woolworth practices discrimination in the South, and We Support Dr. Martin Luther King" (civil rights leader). A New York City uniformed police officer stands on the sidewalk observing the peaceful picketing. Civil Rights leader A. Philip Randolph is seen among the protestors, carrying a picket sign and marching. Passersby seem to ignore the activity.
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