man checks graph and prepares weather data sheet in Sierra, Greenland. They check radiosonde equipment that was sent aloft by weather balloon. Man records surface winds and temperatures. Man speaks over telephone.
Aircraft flies over four trailers in Sierra, Greenland. Men carrying sack gather around. Man distributes goods from container to the group.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force C-124 taxiing in the snow, on four engines at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Canada. It has flaps set at takeoff position. Next, the aircraft takes off somewhat obscured by snow. Hazy view through snow of several C-124 aircraft parked on the airfield ramp. Glimpse of one aircraft taking off toward the camera. More aircraft parked on the snowy ramp. Two C-124s being serviced on the ramp. Air crew gathered beneath one. Change of scene to air crews being briefed in an auditorium.
United States Airmen board C-124 Globemaster II aircraft through clamshell door at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. Number of C-124 Globemaster II aircrafts taxi and take off from the runway.
Convair B-36 Peacemaker in flight with Thule Air Force Base visible on ground. The Aircraft taxis out of hangar. Pilots seated inside locker room relax at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland.
From U.S. Air Force Northeast Air Command digest. Aerial views from USAF aircraft of snow covered mountain peaks and lakes in remote Northeast regions. View of frozen river and partially frozen rivers. Glacier calving and ice falls into water in the Arctic region. View of stark regions north of Newfoundland, into the heart of the arctic. Ice and rock areas and glaciers. Narrator indicates that temperatures are sometimes as low as 80 degrees below zero.
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