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Elements of the North American Air Defense (NORAD) system and U.S. Strategic Air Command in operation
Command and control center in headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense), at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, and NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, step into the Center, to observe activities. Based on teletype messages, U.S. airman marks aircraft positions on plexiglass overlay of NORAD area map. Staff of the center phone information to other elements of NORAD. View of concrete SAGE combat center with staff at large radar monitors. USAF Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft take off on an interception exercise. They are seen at altitude, firing air-to-air munitions, under command of the SAGE combat center. A CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile is raised at a NORAD site and then launched. View inside the underground Command Control Center of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Officers oversee the operation. B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are seen taking off. A SAC Major General at desk with a "Red Phone" connecting all SAC elements and the White House (shown). Control room of a ballistic missile center. View of SM-65 Atlas intercontinetal ballistic missile on launch pad and then launching. Civil defense officials man phones of national warning system, from NORAD headquarters. The system's links to North American cities shown on map. City street scenes.
U.S. Navy and Marines participate in live fire combat readiness training exercises at sea
U.S. Navy and Marine life fire exercises at sea. Opening scene shows Destroyer USS Decatur (DD-936) accompanying Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43)at high speed. Navy and Marine pilots scramble to A4 Skyhawk aircraft readied on deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Ranger (CV-61). Green shirt operator seen at controls below ship's catapult, as an A4 is launched. F4 Skyray aircraft being launched simultaneously from different catapults. Destroyers firing 8-inch guns. Closeup on deck, of an 8-inch gun being fired. Battery of antiaircraft guns installed beside flight deck on an aircraft carrier. missiles being lauched from deck of a ship and from aircraft in flight. Marine aircraft dropping napalm. Flames and black smoke from the bombing.
U.S. Marines seen in live fire combat preparedness exercise in the United States.
U.S.Marine Corps live fire training in the United States. Film begins with camera viewing from below, from a trench, as a U.S. Marine M48 Patton tank comes forward straddling the trench and driving over and past the camera. Next, Marine riflemen are seen in trenches as a Marine F4U Corsair aircraft flies low over them. One marine throws a hand grenade. (Momentary glimpse of a Marine standing nearby on a steel observation platform, observing the training exercise.) The hand grenade explodes. Helicopters are seen flying low in the background. Meanwhile a Marine to the right is firing bursts from a machine gun. A Marine wearing a headset observes through binoculars. Gun crew firing a heavy howitzer from under a camouflage net. Marine M53 self-propelled 155mm guns being fired in the field. Flame Thrower Tank M67 throwing a stream of fire at a target. Jet fighters flying overhead at high speed dropping napalm. Flames erupting as the napalm strikes and ignites. Marines firing machine guns and rifles. Bombs striking.
U.S. Marine Corps senior officers converse with each other; also training of U.S. Marines in the United States.
United States Marines marching in field dress and battle helmets, with shouldered arms. Marine Commandant, General David M. Shoup, sits at his desk, talking with members of his staff. Closeup of General Shoup, and then of a Marine Brigadier General sitting next to him. Closeup of a Lieutenant General sitting across from General Shoup. The three converse as General Shoup touches a world globe at his side. Scene shifts to view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and then to two women sitting on a high hill overlooking the city of San Francisco. Another view (nighttime) of the Bridge and city. Private boats in a marina. Flight of two Marine Chance Vought Crusader F8 aircraft flying in formation. Aerial view of highway "clover leaf" network on the ground, busy with vehicle traffic.
President Truman and his party at RAF Station Harrowbeer near Plymouth, England during World War II.
United States President Harry S. Truman, and his party, make unplanned stop at RAF Station Harrowbeer during return from the last 4-Power meeting of World War 2, held at Berlin in July, 1945. (Their planned destination, RAF Station St Mawgan, was fogged in. So the President instructed his pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Henry T. Myers, to land at Harrowbeer, when they saw it was clear.) Truman descends steps from the Presidential Airplane (Douglas VC-54C named the "Sacred Cow," used by Presidents Roosevelt, and Truman). Two other C-54 aircraft have also arrived (unseen). One carried Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, who poses with the President and three members of the British WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) identified as: Section Officer Eira Buckland Jones, Corporal Clarice Turner, and Leading Aircraft Woman Audley Bartlett. Views from inside car taking members of Presidential party to Plymouth Harbor. Groups of local people wave as the car passes through the English countryside. Larger numbers of spectators line the streets of the city of Plymouth. View of Plymouth Harbor from launch taking members of President's party out to the USS Augusta, anchored in Plymouth Sound (not seen).
U.S. President Truman leaves USS Augusta and goes aboard HMS Renown to meet King George VI in England during World War II.
United States President Harry Truman meets King George VI on British battle cruiser HMS Renown in England. President Truman accompanied by United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy disembarks from USS Augusta. HMS Renown at sea. President Truman goes to the British cruiser to meet King George VI and returns back to USS Augusta. Dignitaries and sailors on the ship deck. United Kingdom and American flags on the mast of battleships. A band playing on the ship deck.
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