View of General Dwight Eisenhower, Omar N Bradley and Lieutenant General William H. Simpson entering the building. MP salutes to Generals. Generals including General Eisenhower walking out of the building. View of Generals traveling by car.
Film opens showing a nondescript blue building with a white shed attached. A tall signal tower stands nearby. View shifts closer to the buliding. A large truck is parked across the street. Sign near the building reads: "635th MMS, RACAF Field Office. U.S. Air Force airmen leave the building and peruse bulletin boards on the white shed. Inside the building, several airmen are seen seated at control stations observing large visual displays. One of the airmen makes marks on his display, while one of the other airmen is speaking into a microphone at his position. Closeup of airman annotating information inside display boxes (representing storage locations in the facility).Sequence is interrupted briefly, as cameraman begins new slate while focused on the center airman with the microphone, who then resumes speaking into the microphone, while also annotating the diagram in front of him. Similar views continue to end of film.
U.S. Air Force munitions handlers unload M117 General Purpose Bombs from a flat bed truck trailer. They roll them by their tail fins and then strap them one by one onto an MJ-1A/B Aerial Stores Lift Truck (Jammer) which they then use to raise each bomb up into a slot in a multi-bomb storage rack. View from storage rack as the team of two handlers approaches transporting an M117 bomb to be placed in the rack. Another munitions handler helps secure the bomb into the rack. The team continues to move bombs into the rack. View of a fully loaded rack of bombs on its low mobile trailer, and then view of being pulled from the area by a tractor truck.
U.S. Ship Falcon and rescue vessels in water. Crewmen and divers on ship. Divers diving into water from ship. Submarine is raised on lift; the pontoons are arranged at different levels between the surface and the submarine. View of submarine sinking back in water. Squalus raised again on surface of the water. Squalus is raised and renamed as 'Sailfish'. View of Sailfish crewmen lined up and four Naval Officers who survived after the submarine sank.
U.S. Color Guard walking down the Capitol steps, followed by two clergymen and pall bearers carrying flag-draped casket of John F. Kennedy. Casket is placed and tied on caisson. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Color Guard, horse drawn caisson with flag-draped casket followed by procession of cars leaving Capitol and proceeding to White House. Spectators line the sidewalks. View of cortege moving and crowd in background.
Marine Honor Guard standing at attention on the White House steps. Military officers and civilian dignitaries arrive by car, walk up the steps and enter the White House. Various views of cars arriving at the White House.
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