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Air Defense warning systems of the United States extend far abroad during the Cold War

Animated map of world highlights the continental United States, Alaska, the Soviet Union and Europe. Circumferential rings illustrate the scope of radar coverage by America's various air defense installations in the world. A radar installation in a desert. Camouflaged radar installation at a remote airfield where U.S. aircraft are parked. An army camp ow tents and sandbags, containing a large radar array. Views of several radar antennas rotating in various places as narrator explains function of radar systems. View of "Radio Jim Creek," Naval Radio Station very low frequency (VLF) radio antennas at Jim Creek near Oso, Washington State. . The transmitter, itself, is located at Arlington,Washington State. Views inside the transmitter facility, where sailor technicians monitor various instruments and are seen at various work stations. (Note: this army production fails to mention that this Naval Radio Station's primary mission it to communicate with submerged U.S. submarines.)

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070288
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) providing combined rail and air service taking passengers across the U.S.A. from coast-to-coast

Operations of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) Company. Aerial view of New York City's Manhattan Island, below. Camera focuses on Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) seen from above, and then at street level. Travelers purchasing tickets for combined transcontinental rail and air travel at a window in the station. Families seeing travelers off at one of the railroad gates. Temporary sign at gate reads "The Airway Limited, second section." View of passengers on rear car of train as it pulls out. The car displays Pennsylvania Railroad logo sign reading "The Airway Limited, Pennsylvania Railroad." Views of Pennsylvania RR passenger train and closeup of locomotive wheels in motion. Animated relief map shows train proceeding from New York, past Columbus, Ohio, to Port Columbus station in Ohio. Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. billroard at the station shows picture of passengers connecting between a train and an airplane. Billboard reads:"Port Columbus, Eastern Transfer Point, Air-rail Service, Coast-to-Coast." Passengers leaving the train and entering the station waiting rooms. Their baggage being weighed (Narrator says 30 pounds is the allowance.) View from terminal roof, of a Ford 5-AT-B, trimotor passenger airplane ready to accept passengers for the next phase of their travel. A logo on fuselage has "TAT" with small ribbon through it reading, "Transcontinetal Air Transport." View of passengers seated inside the aircraft. The plane taxis and takes off from the Port Columbus airport. Ground is snow-covered, but the runway is plowed. Closeup aerial view of the airplane flying over the city of Columbus, Ohio. Distant view of it flying close to the LeVeque Tower skyscraper (a 47-story Art Deco-style building at 50 West Broad Street). Aerial view of the airplane passing the train, continuing westward, from Port Columbus. Views inside passenger cabin of the plane. Animated map show plane heading to Indiannapolis. Officer hands out TAT illustrated map and points out features to passengers.Closeup of map. Aerial view of the airplane on final approach to land at Indiannapolis airport. Clerk at airport typing arrival message on teletype, and company executives reading it at their headquarters. Animated map show plane moving to St.Louis, Missouri. View from air of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Passengers in cabin. aerial view of the plane on final approach, over snow, to St. Louis. The aircraft taxiing on ramp and parking at terminal building, where passengers enter, under cover of awning-covered walk. Closeup of the aircraft engines. Inserted view of TAT engine overhaul facility, with Charles Lindbergh, the airline's technical adviser, and TAT officials inspecting the operation.

Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026613
American fighter jet aircraft take off during Cuban Missile Crisis

United States Air Force North American F-100 Super Sabre supersonic jet fighters take off from an airfield during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. View from cockpit of a fighter jet in flight. Douglas B-66 Destroyer in flight. McDonnell F-101 Voodoo landing on airstrip.

Date: 1962
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025256
C-124 airplane flight during Cuban Missile Crisis

Flight plan on a map shows interception of three missiles. Trucks loaded on to a C-124 Globemaster 2 airplane. C-119. C-133 and C-130 aircraft seen in flight.. C-124 lands on airfield. Aerial view of air force base. Jet fighters parked on the airfield. Events during the Cuban Crisis.1962.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025260
U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command aircraft stationed in various parts of the world.

Klaxon horns sound alert signals and U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) flight crews, on alert, stop what they are doing and rush from their quarters to jeeps, that take them to their aircraft. They are seen clambering aboard their bomber aircraft. Closeup of a B-47E-30-LM Stratojet bomber, tail number 52-264, taxiing. Closeup of its wheels. The B-47 taking off from a base in the continental United States. In Alaska, a B-52 bomber taxis on a plowed taxiway in a snowy airfield. Local people watch as two B-52 bombers take off from a SAC base in Africa. Formations of B-52 bomber in flight. View of Air Force personnel inside the SAC headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Scene shifts to a B-47 bomber flying directly overhead and an Atlas missile being launched. Glimpse of pilot and copilot inside the cockpit of a SAC bomber in flight. A nuclear bomb dropping from an open bomb bay viewed from inside the aircraft. An atomic explosion during one of the tests conducted by the United States, in the Pacific, from 1946 to 1958.

Date: 1960
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047105
An antenna fastened with metal cables at the Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, New Mexico.

Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratoryon Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. Air Force personnel at controls. Movement of an indicator on the screen. Personnel shuts the door to a trailer of the Mobile Test Station. An antenna fastened with metal cables at the Station.

Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031255