United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral,Florida. United States airmen fuel SM-65 Atlas missile in gantry. They wear ear phones and hold fueling control device. Display of the fueling meter.
United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three United States airmen and a Martin technician inside a hangar. They install destruct system in SM-68 Titan missile. Other man watches them at work.
United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three United States airmen and a Martin technician install destruct system in SM-68 Titan missile at a hangar. Other man interacts and guides the airmen.
United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Two United States airmen seated at front of console. They conduct preflight checkout in blockhouse. Display of readings on screen.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) combat operation center (COC) on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, United States. Map display of satellite paths. Panel of computer. Automatic typewriter of computer types a printout. Women Air Force (WAF) Lieutenant at computer console. She presses keys and picks up a telephone. She talks and takes notes and replaces phone.
Smoke rises from bombed aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) off Luzon in World War 2. Time code 00:29,shows F6F-5 #7 "Paper Doll," of VF-27, (mount of Ensign Bob Burnell who painted most of the famous "cat mouths" on the cowls of VF-27 Hellcats).Pilots walk across flight deck of USS Essex (CV-9). TC:01:04, F6F-5 #47 (VF-15) is seen with Horizontal stripe near rudder tip identifying it as an Air Group 15 aircraft. Further along is F6F-3 #8 (VF-15) Late production -3 with superseded tri-color paint scheme and 7 Japanese victory flag emblems under cockpit. F6F-3 #F-11 (VF-27) Late production -3, "F-11" lettered prefix to aircraft number (unusual on an operational fighter probably indicating a recent replacement). Plane captain is cleaning windshield on the "Minzi III" when Captain David S. McCampbell, the top U.S. Navy ace, approaches and climbs aboard the aircraft. Thirty Japanese flags are painted on the fuselage below the cockpit. McCampbell straps in and starts his engine. He gives a "thumbs up" sign. "Airedales" push empty Hellcat belly tanks across Essex flight deck. A Destroyer fires antiaircraft guns. Japanese aircraft seen in flight over water. Fire from 40 mm guns. (Note: Some planes of Squadron VF-27 on the Princeton, were recovered on the Essex.)
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