Damage caused to a USAF B-52 Stratofortress and to property as a result of the crash shortly after take off at March Air Base in California. Damaged B-52 tail section. SPs (Security Policemen) standing at crash site. Medics look for medical evidence and carry body bag on litter. Air force personnel, medics and others at crash site and inspect debris. Firefighters spray water on debris. A policeman speaks over the radio.
Damage caused to a USAF B-52 Stratofortress and to property following crash shortly after take off at March Air Base in California. Firefighters spray water on debris as another rakes the rubble. Damaged engine of crashed B-52 . Photographers, cameramen and reporters at the crash site. Personnel talks over a radio.
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at Saint Louis, Missouri. F-4J test flight aircraft #155557 MAC 2833 lifts off from runway, climbs steeply and goes into a vertical attitude. Pilot and co-pilot eject. Plane continues climbing and levels off. F-4J crashes, wheels down, and explodes into a big fireball. Black smoke billows upward from flames, and drifts upward. (Both crew members survived the ejection: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.)
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at St. Louis, Missouri. It was test flight #155557 MAC 2833. The F-4J aircraft taxis for take off, lifts off and climbs steeply. Pilot and co-pilot eject. (Both survived: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.) Plane moves flatly through air in vertical position. It loses all speed. Aircraft falls flatly, impacts runway and explodes into a huge fireball. Black smoke billows up from impact area. Plane continues to burn. F-4J ablaze. Crash crew makes way to fire. Ambulance on ground. Pilot Pilcher and Radar Observer Begay meet-up together with other personnel on the airfield and observe the blazing aircraft from which they had ejected. They walk around a military station wagon. The two crew members examine ejection seat on runway. Ejection seat resting on runway. Two pilots get into a station wagon with other civilian personnel. Collapsed chute laying on grass. View of ejection seat. Blown canopy, other debris lying about runway in the background. F-4J still ablaze. Fire engine enters and moves down a runway. Firemen wade knee-deep through foam while fighting fire. Heavy smoke rises from wreckage. Crashed F-4J, heavy foam in the foreground. Fireman direct more foam into opening of F-4J while smoke is pouring out.
Carrier crewmen donate blood to a blood bank in San Francisco, California. USS Boxer (CV-21) aircraft carrier is anchored in San Francisco. A mobile bank and nurses standing at the harbor. U.S. Navy sailors of USS Boxer donate blood to the mobile bank for the comrades in Korean War. They have just returned from Korea. Nurses take blood for the blood bank from a donor. Bottles are being put on a rack in the blood bank.
Expanding fleet of the U.S. Navy in San Diego, California. The navy is daily adding to the list of war vessels being taken out. Activities of men at a ship. Men work on equipment and guns mounted on warships. New recruits to man these ships undergo training for active duty. The flag of the United States.
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