Operation Carpetbagger by the 492nd Bomb Group of United States 8th Air Force during World War II. View of automobile traffic on a London Street. London "Carpetbaggers" personnel working at the London headquarters of United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force. At Harrington field men load supplies on trucks for French resistance forces (Maquis, FFI). Men workout the daily packing schedule. Men pack guns, grenades, machine guns and other ammunitions. Special H containers and C containers for loading 303 ammunition. Boots, socks being packed. Gasoline Jerry cans being put in containers. Men place guns in containers. Instructions in French also placed with the supplies for the French resistance forces. Men pack explosives and radio sets. Medical supplies put in baskets. Harness and parachute shops in Holmes where men attach parachutes to containers. Packages being transported to airfield for dropping to the targets. A man on a telephone informs about the daily supplies to Special Forces headquarters in London. S-2, an intelligence officer forwards the list received from London. A man plots the target area on a map. In the weather room detailed map of the area is being prepared. Officers make a selection of the targets. S-2 informs the headquarters about the route of the planes. Supplies being loaded onto United States B-24 aircraft specially configured to carry and drop the containers using the bomb rack system in the aircraft. Flight crew is briefed before the operation. Chief Navigator talks about the course to be taken by the planes and the targets to be hit. Pilots work on a flight plan. Aircraft take off. An officer reports about the take off of the aircraft to the 8th Air Force headquarters.
United States troops in England during World War II. United States Coast Guardsmen bring sacks of mail from United States aboard a Coast Guard Troop Ship at a port in England in April, 1944. They carry sacks from one of the Troop ship's Higgins boats and carry them up the ship's ladder, to the deck.
In a speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, U.S. Secretary of State, George Marshall, refers to repeated vetoes by a permanent member of the Security Council. He discusses the post-war state of the world and the many matters yet to be resolved, including the independence of Austria, the Palestine issue, the matter of Korea, still divided along the 38th parallel, and status of nations in Eastern Europe, etc.
Crowd celebrating Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, in New York City. Many wave American flags. Dense crowd traps several vehicles. Different sequence shows the U.S. State funeral procession for the American Unknown Soldier of World War I, on November 21, 1921. Teams of white horses pull artillery caissons. Team of dark horses pull caisson bearing the coffin of the Unknown Soldier. It is covered with bunting and dark wreath. General of the Armies, John J. Pershing leads the Military officers who accompany the coffin. Following them is seen a large group of civilian officials, all in top hats.
U.S. Air Force staff car driving along a road at the Minuteman Missile complex of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, near Great Falls, Montana. In the back seat are Captain Kenneth Atkins, a combat crew commander and his deputy, Lieutenant Jim Highland. View of desolate landscape from the passing car. The car stops at a fenced area where guards confirm their identifications. Inside a building the men are issued .38 caliber revolvers and ammunition. An authentication code is given over the phone by the guard, who then promptly burns a stub of paper on which it is written. The combat crew enters the complex through an alarmed door and takes an elevator down to the lower level. View up the shaft of the elevator descending. They exit and stand as the silo blast door is opened from within, and then enter the vault-like control room. Colonel Rex Dowtin, Commander of the 341st Wing, listens as one of his combat crews gives him their certification briefing. Combat crew members Atkins and Highland are seen in their silo control capsule, where they look over the latest message traffic. Views of SAC (Strategic Air Command) message recording systems and internal capsule controls. A double padlocked red box containing secret missile launch codes. Pre-recorded voice reporting the status of all missiles under the crews control. Sound of voice reporting on various selected channels. Views outside the silo, with some snow on the ground. View of a missile nose. Panning views of the capsule, showing the crew member bunks, among other things.
Speed and altitude tests being conducted by X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. X-15 begins a solo flight into the stratosphere. Pilot Scott Crossfield seated in the cockpit of X-15. Mach meter indicator passes Mach two. Radar dish antenna recording the course of flight. Chase planes F-100F and F-104D in flight. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) officials take recordings on graph and look at radar screens. Pilot converses with the ground crew members. X-15 lands on Rogers Dry Lake in California. Vehicles parked next to the aircraft after its landing in ground.
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