'Nuclear might ready but safe.' About the safe use of nuclear weapons by the United States Air Force. A nuclear weapon strapped to a trailer, with two armed guards standing nearby. A missile raises up toward launch position. B-52 bombers on a flight line. A B-52 bomber,on ground alert, taxis out for takeoff. B-52 in flight during airborne alert. Remains of a crashed aircraft that carried a nuclear bomb (a "Broken Arrow" event). An Air Force team team looks at the wreckage of the crashed plane in a field as they work to decontaminate the area. The health concerns involve possible local contamination by scattered non-explosive radioactive materials.
Scenes of Rome, during World War 2. View of the Pantheon. An American Army Air Forces officer throws a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). Hypogeum of the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). American Army Air Forces officer stands in Colosseum and pretends to give a speech. The Pyramid of Caius Cestius (Via Raffaele Persichetti, 00153 Roma RM, Italy) and the Porta San Paolo (P.za Ostiense, 00154 Roma RM, Italy).
Women pilots during an air show in Long Beach, California. A large number of people gather to watch the air show. Women pilots walk . The pilots pose and smile. Aircraft take off from a field. The aircraft in flight. Various stunts being performed as the aircraft roll, drop vertically and then climb up. The aircraft emit contrails.
U.S. 6th Army Commander General Walter Kruger visits 33rd Division at Baguio in Luzon, Philippines during World War II. General Kruger, Lieutenant General C.H. Gardiner, U.S. Army Major General Innis P. Swift, Major General P.W. Clarkson and other officers at an artillery OP ( Out Post) on a mountain. Bombs explode on distant hills during an air strike and puffs of smoke rise up. General Kruger and other officers watch the air strike. A soldier looks through a lens.
Scrap of damaged airplanes being used for manufacturing new aircraft at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. An aircraft in a hoist. A heap of wrecked aircraft parts. Women look at an aircraft. Men pull out metal pieces from the scrap to be used for manufacturing new aircraft. Butch O'Hare's aircraft also being used for the purpose. Metal pieces being piled up at the air station.
An early cargo and transport aircraft of the United States Army Air Service in the United States. A U.S. Army Air Service Martin Transport airplane on a field. Exteriors of the aircraft. Interiors of the airplane with two men seated. They look out from the aircraft. Airplane propellers start to rotate. The motors warm up. The engine starts and the aircraft takes off. The aircraft lands after a flight.
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