Presidential party on Navy Crash boat "Dolphin", also called "the Big Wheel" (Navy designation C-26565) carrying President Truman, Two other crash boats also carried tournament participants (C-26590 and C-18345). Party members included the President, his press secretary, Charile Ross, Fleet Admiral William Leahy, William P. Hassett. Clark Clifford, John E. Steelman,Major General Harry D. Vaughn, U.S. Army,Rear Admiral James H. Foskett. and a number of other officials. The Key west White House Sweepstakes was limited to the President and members of his party, including white House correspondents, photographers, and Secret,Service agents. A prize was offered tor the largest fish, anther for the smalles and a third for the best catch -- all to be caught on rod and reel. Afterwards some ot the guests relax with the President at the "Littlle White House.'
Animated map showing planned orbital flight paths planned for Project Mercury and associated telemetry and radar tracking installations worldwide. Chart notes some sites operated by the U.S. Air Force Air Research and Development Command (ARDC). Views of telemetry and radar tracking installation at Mercury network station 17, located at site A-20, Eglin AFB. Operator at control console setting azimuth and elevation controls of the Active Acquisition Aid (AGAVE). (This device is designed to receive the spacecraft telemetering signals and automatically track it, in angle, with sufficient accuracy so the radar can lock on to the spacecraft.) The Aquisition Aid quad helix antenna is seen rotating.
Titan I missile launched. Cars arrive at gated entrance to Cape Canaveral. Military Police (MP) on guard. Sign at the entrance reads 'Atlantic Missile Range'. Four engine drone planes take off controlled by operator on the ground. Bomarc missile wheeled out of hangar. Images of radar screens tracking the drone plane. Bomarc missile launched toward drone plane. Bomarc missile intentionally redirected shortly before impact with the drone plane in order to save the drone plane for other tests.
SM-62 Snark missile launched. Jupiter missile launched. Night view, Jupiter 'C' Explorer launched. Sparrow missile carried by F-3D plane releases, streaks through air and hits an aircraft B-17 in flight. B-17 explodes.
Personnel at controls in the blockhouse, prepare to launch Atlas missile. Atlas missile launched. C-119 plane flies overhead. Mass of paratroopers jump and float to earth. U.S. infantry fires rifles at fields. Mechanical mule with 106mm recoil less rifle moves across field. Tracked vehicle fires mortar from its rear. SS-10 antitank weapon fires missile at a tank in distance. Shell follows till it hits the tank. Multiple rocket launcher fires and bursts on target. M-2, 8 inch howitzer and M-53, 155 SP gun are fired. Bursts in the distance. Several H-13D helicopters fire machine guns while hover over the ground. Cameraman records battle.
Republic F-105 Thunderchief and a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in flight. KC-135 Jet tanker refuels a bomber. Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carries an X-15 while in flight. Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber in flight. Ships at sea. Delta jet takes off from carrier USS Enterprise. Two-engine bomber takes off from carrier. H-34 helicopter takes off from the carrier. Mr. Hunter and Commander Harper chat on bridge of Enterprise. U.S. Navy airship blimp takes off from deck of aircraft carrier. Destroyer pass carrier. Alfa missile launched from destroyer and explodes in the sea. Guppy-type submarine. Atomic subs Seawolf SS-575 and Nautilus SSN-571. Atomic sub Skate SS-578 breaks through ice at North Pole. Admiral George W. Anderson on bridge of Skate. Launch of the submarine George Washington SSBN-598.
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