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Establishment of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and its first launch of a ballistic missile.
Restrospective of the 1954 search for a suitable site for U.S. Air Force testing of ballistic missiles. Coastal area with ocean in the background. Officials look over charts, maps, photographs as they select the site for Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January, 1958, view of building with a sign that reads ' Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base' Entrance of the headquarters as Major General David Wade walks out. U.S. Air Force officers and airmen attend missile training classes. Airmen work on assembly of Thor missiles . U.S. Air Force officers and airmen operate missile launch consoles in a launch control center. November, 1958, Thor intermediate range missile on a trailer being delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trailer backs up to the launch pad. December, 16, 1958, the Thor missile on launch pad venting gases. U.S. Air Forces officers at a launch console. The Thor missile is launched. RAF airmen watch missile in flight.
Missile Training and operational activities at Vandenberg Aerospace Air Force Base, California
Activities of Strategic Air Command (SAC) 576th Missile Training Squadron. Atlas ICBM on launch pad. Airmen work around base of missile. The 392nd Missile Training Squadron has responsibility for 5 Thor missile launch pads. Aerial view of Thor missile complex. Thor missile raised on operational launch pad. Ocean in the background. Airmen work on missile. Other pads used for launch of Discoverer Orbiting vehicles. 395th Missile Training Squadron involved with Titan Missile crews. A Titan missile being launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Test launch of a tethered Minuteman missile. It climbs and then flips over and is pulled to earth by tether. Atlas missile on trailer. Atlas in a launch tower being readied for launch from permanent vertical position. . Airmen work around Atlas. Other Atlas missiles, placed in a horizontal position, and being raised in vertical position for firing. Semi-hardened bunker constructed for Atlas. Officers in control room watch instrument panels and gauges. Titan missile being raised upward into firing postion from inside hardened silo. Sign reads 'Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg AFB'. USAF airmen and officers attend missile classes. Officers and airmen operate missile launch controls in a launch control center. Thor missile on launch pad. Airmen work in assembly. Various missiles being raised for firing.
U.S. Air Force personnel mating Agena vehicle to Thor missile and Thor-Agena being raised for a launch at Vandenberg AFB, CA
Thor-Agena orbital launch vehicle being prepared for launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Entrance of Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Vandenberg AFB. Truck coming out of the building. Workmen mate Agena vehicle to Thor missile. Thor-Agena being raised to launch position on pad. Interiors of control and data compilation center. Various tracking centers, dish-shaped tracking antenna at Vandenberg AFB, radome at Kodiak in Alaska, TLM-18 antenna at Kaena Point in Hawaii, and tracking vessel at sea.
A project to review methods of attack against Japanese-type fortifications at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Coverage of project to determine the most effective means for destroying Japanese-type cave positions at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. Paper with typewritten introduction. U.S. Air Force P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft in a napalm attack. U.S. B-25H Mitchell bomber fires 75mm cannon and U.S. Army Air Force P-47N Thunderbolt fighter aircraft fires 11.75 inch Tiny Tim rocket at targets on hillside. Mountainous terrain and caves similar to Japanese positions on island. Tall Boy (12,000 pound HE bomb) being hoisted from a trailer. U.S. P-38 parked with napalm bombs under wing. P-47N with 11.75 inch Tiny Tim rocket on launcher rail. U.S. Army Air Forces A-26 Invader bomber plane in flight and fires Tiny Tim rocket. Ordnance men load 75mm rounds into B-25H equipped with APG-13B radar ranging device. Gun crew fires 105mm howitzer at hillside. (World War II period).
U.S. P-38 fighter makes napalm attack on hillside to review methods of attack against Japanese-type fortifications.
Coverage of a project to determine the most effective means for destroying Japanese-type fortifications at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft drops napalm bombs on hillside. Explosion throws billows of smoke in air. (World War II period).
Various universities, industries, publishing houses, and colleges in Northeastern States
Exterior of an industrial plant shows a lake. Glimpse of skyscrapers. Women work at typewriters. in an office building. Aerial view of a Northeast University. The Low Library at Columbia University, New York City (designed by McKim,Mead & White). A modern building labeled "Research." Women at work in a publishing house, where machines print and assemble books. Rockefeller Center in New York City. Statue of Prometheus, reclining, is visible in sunken plaza. Camera pans up the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in background.
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