U.S. marines come up elevator of the USS Enterprise and board HRS-1 (H-37) helicopters. Two HR2S1 helicopters leave deck of carrier. LVTs on way to shore. Marines rush off LVTs through surf to shore. SP antitank vehicle with 106 recoil less rifles and 50 cal machine gun moves up and fires. Jupiter missile launches. Soldiers advance and planes in flight. Ship refuels in heavy sea. Night view in desert United States of atomic bomb explosion during a test.
Newsreel 'Missile failure, Atlas explodes, capsules intact'. In a test before a man is launched into space an Atlas Missile is fired. The missile is fired from Cape Canaveral with the Mercury astronaut capsule in its nose. A defect in the guidance systems causes it to go off course. The missile is destroyed but the capsule is successfully parachuted on earth. Men stand near the intact capsule.
1365th photo squadron film titled 'Missiles boost B-52 effectiveness'. GAM-77 Hounddog and GAM-72 Quail missiles tested. Hounddog being loaded into U.S. Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. B-52 Stratofortress in flight. Quail dropped from B-52 Stratofortress. Men on plotting screen in air tracking station.
Daring anglers hook man-eating sharks from the cabin of a huge airship in Fisher Island. Airship or blimp in flight. The fishermen use hook and line from the cabin of the blimp to fish for sharks. The shark is raised up in the sky by the fishing expedition. The aircraft lands. The anglers with the shark.
America's first sub-orbital flight. Astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. NASA special van arrives at pad number 5, Cape Canaveral. Commander Alan B Shepard carries a portable air conditioner and walks to the elevator. Doctor William Douglas, Mercury flight Surgeon follows him. Elevator moves to Mercury capsule. Technicians prepare Redstone booster. Technicians aid astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard into Freedom Seven Capsule. 'Countdown and proceed' written in control room. Alan B Shepard during countdown procedure. Gantry moves away from Redstone-Mercury and the boom arm of cherry picker swinging up to capsule. Umbilical arm drops away and missile lifts off. Commander Alan B Shepard talks. Floating harness strap during weightlessness. Mercury launch team personnel seen in mission control room, including flight surgeon and capsule environment monitors. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain. Marine helicopter HUS-1 takes off from carrier ship. Crewmen signal. Commander Alan B Shepard during flight. Aircraft carrier crewmen sit on deck. Capsule with open parachute descends. Commander Alan B Shepard releases harness strap. Capsule near surface of water.
U.S. Air Force tactical fighter aircraft participating in one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Bold Shot Exercises,involving units of the United States Strike Command (USSTRICOM). An F-4 aircraft is seen overhead, shortly after takeoff from Eglin Air Force Base. Two more are seen on their takeoff rolls and breaking ground close to the camera positioned at the side of the runway.
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