Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An SAC Lockheed U-2 aircraft in the United States. An officer enters a Physiological Support Building. A board near the building reads 'Restricted Area'. The officer and a man get in a truck. The truck is driven away. 'PSD-1' written on the truck. A man pushes a dolly towards an aircraft being serviced on a flight line. A truck near the aircraft. An aircraft takes off in the background.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A flight surgeon does a preflight physical checkup of a pilot in the United States. The flight surgeon in a room. A pilot approaches him and sits down in a chair. The flight surgeon takes temperature and blood pressure readings of the pilot.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot eats steak and egg before a flight in the United States. He uses a fork and a knife to eat. An attendant brings a dish.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman takes a helmet and an MC-3A partial pressure suit from a rack and keeps them back after checking them in the United States. The airman helps a pilot in getting suited for a flight. He helps the pilot in donning the suit and putting on his shoes. Another airman comes in and hands over a helmet to the first airman who helps the pilot in putting it on. Another helmet is put on the previous one. The airmen helps the pilot in putting on gloves.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. Photo intelligence personnel examine aerial photographs of ships and plot their course by shadow in the United States. One of the personnel examines the photographs using a magnifying lens. The other one looks into a booklet and plots a course using a ruler and a pencil.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot in a chair near a pre breathing apparatus in the United States. An airman adjusts the oxygen bottle of the apparatus in the mouth of the pilot. He walks to the apparatus and puts on a pair of headphones. The airman checks the pressure suit won by the pilot. The pilot gets up and walks away from the apparatus while carrying an oxygen cylinder.
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