United States Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington D.C., United States. Closeup view of ashtrays, candy trays, and pencil holders on conference room table. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger ; Deputy Secretary of Defense, William P. Clements and Chiefs of Staff enter a room for a meeting. Officers General Fred C. Weyand, United States Army ; General David C. Jones, United States Air Force ; General George S. Brown, United States Air Force ; Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Admiral James L. Holloway, United States Navy ; General Robert E. Cushman, United States Marine Corps. The Secretary smokes a cigar and speaks to the officers. They pose for a camera.
British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.
Brief glimpse of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Exhibition Team as they demonstrate precision close formation flying with their F9F-8 Cougar aircraft during a demonstration in 1958.
View from a tracking camera of a Navy F6F drone plane in flight. Other aircraft (unseen) flying above it at high altitude, leave twin contrails behind. Suddenly a Sparrow radar guided air-to-air missile appears from the right contrail and follows a curved path as it homes in on and then destroys the target drone. Pieces of the destroyed drone fall to the earth.
Test firing of air to ground missile AGM 65 Maverick in the United States. Men look at the AGM 65 Maverick missile under the wing of a Ryan Firebee ( BQ-34A ), an unmanned aerial vehicle. A DC-130 E aircraft takes off with a Ryan Firebee under its wing. The plane in flight. Ryan Firebee detaches and in flight. Smoke rises from the tail of the firebee as AGM 6 Maverick missile launches from the vehicle. The missile hits the range target and explosion occurs.
Aircraft in flight in the United States. Lockheed DC-130 E aircraft in flight over sea and land. An aerial view of the landscape. Planes in flight.
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