Activities involved in a LGM-30 Minuteman missile operational test launch at Vandenberg AFB, Lompoc. A crew of two men comes out of a silo. Task Force Munitions team at work on the missile components in an underground silo. View of the MIRV, Multiple (three) independently targeted reentry vehicles (warheads). The missile booster is removed, loaded on a transporter, transferred to the missile complex ,and loaded in the launch facility. Reentry system is added to the missile and start up is accomplished. Various officers of Task Force at controls. Data analysis by officers which involves flight data recording. Training of the countdown team. Final enabling of launch facility by crews prior to launch. A radar outside a facility. A Task Force commander in conference with his team.
Japanese aircraft attacks U.S. ships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. Navy OS (Operations Specialist) seated before a radar. An aircraft in flight overhead. View aboard U.S. ship underway in the Pacific. A telephone operator looks up into the sky while he talks over the phone. Gun crew on single 40MM gun, training gun. A trainer on a gun. Ships underway at sea in background. A 5 inch gun is fired. Flak in the sky. A Coast Guard personnel loads clips into a 40mm twin bofor gun. A Japanese plane hits water after being shot down. Gun crew on 20MM gun fires at enemy aircraft. A Japanese Kamikaze plane hits a flight deck in a ball of flame. Coast Guard crew on 20mm gun fire at Japanese plane. Japanese plane in flight, tracer streaking through sky. American carrier covered in smoke after being hit by Japanese Kamikaze plane. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) fire all guns at Japanese aircraft. Sky filled with flak. Japanese aircraft heads for water. A 40mm gun is fired. Japanese plane strikes water. Twin 40mm gun is fired. Men load clips into the 40mm gun. Japanese plane hits water. Guns aboard the ship are fired. Coast Guard photographer shoots the movies. An officer looks through binoculars.
A survey of drought area in North Dakota by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. People assembled at Bismarck railroad station. President Roosevelt speaks briefly from platform of his Presidential train, and makes his way, with difficulty, using both hands on railings of a ramp to the ground. The President’s motorcade passes through the drought area. Cars come to a halt. Officials leave cars. View of hilly terrain. A group of officials gathers around U.S. flag.
Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg AFB, California. Staff car driving to Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star airplane on flight line. Two colonels getting out and talking. T-33 (with SAC riband) taking off. Colonel in staff car. Car comes to halt. Driver opens the door of car. Atlas D with Mk II and Mod II nose cone erect in coffin shelter. Atlas assembly line in factory with workers at work. View of Atlas during engine ignition, lift-off and climb. View of launch control building. Airmen working on Atlas instrumentation pod. Airmen studying target maps, then airmen inserting cards in sorter to obtain target data.
Coverage of missile squadron training at Vandenberg AFB, California. Aerial view of missile base construction. Missile base during construction. Earthmover operating. Truck passing on highway. Maintenance building at base. Civilian and USAF base activation crew looking at drawings. Aerial view of Atlas complex. Three Atlas missiles in launch position at operational site. Maintenance building. Coffin shelter as seen through flame bucket door. Atlas D in coffin. Launch control crew at stations in blockhouse. Status panel in room. Atlas being erected in coffin shelter. Atlas lift-off. Radome and telemetry tracker. Views of control console during early stages of flight, shows radar meter, vernier cut off switch, guidance complete light, and airman at control console. Aerial view of building at Vandenberg AFB. Shrouded Atlas on trailer truck. Atlas missiles in maintenance building during checkout.
Reconstruction of Cologne, Germany. Aerial views of Cologne, Germany in 1930, before its destruction in World War II. Shows pre-war Cologne Cathedral and Hohenzollerm Bridge on the Rhine river. Various buildings in Cologne including train station. Scene change to Fuhrer Adolf Hitler speaking. Aerial and street views of damaged bridges and buildings in Cologne after World War II. Destroyed sewer pipes, piles of rubble in Cologne. American Military Government men, also known as "MG" lined up in streets, in uniform, wearing soldier helmets. They salute. The U.S. flag is raised. Signs behind men read, ""Militarregierungsamt" and "military government" Close up faces of MG soldiers. Large groups of civilians crossing the newly named McNair bridge. Sign reads, "Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair Bridge Designed by 1067 Eng. Const. Gp". A U.S. military government officer wearing a lip microphone addresses a crowd of civilians. Close-up views of German civilians as they listen. Truck equipped with horn-loaded PA speakers amplifies speech. German men, women, and children are deloused using DDT, which is sprayed in power form into their clothing. A German man with a SS blood type tattoo under his left arms is examined. The tattoo identifies him as a former Nazi German SS soldier. Germans in line to be interviewed for new military government positions. A man stopping and examining papers of a German citizen. Germans civilians at interview table being questioned. They sign the interview papers using a fingerprint. The first German police force of Cologne, Germany following World War II. They are given arm bands reading, "MG-Police." The former head of the Prussian Senate on camera, identified as one who fought the Nazis.
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