Weapons Officer giving order. Assistant Weapons Officer at Launcher control panel. Scene of control panel. An Officer observes through umbilical access. A man sees through small access in liner, on dock. A man enters ejection chamber. Animation of the base of the missile. A man comes out of the eject chamber. Scene of a control panel. A man looks into an Optical machine. A man attaches alignment tool to missile. Alignment tool removed. Hoisting frame detached. Umbilical cable attached by an officer. Mechanical interlocks established. Loading fixtures removed from the submarine. The launcher tube moved over. Plastic supports lowered around the sides of the missile. A diaphragm is lowered and fixed. A capsule swings and entered into the submarine. The 16 Polaris missile launching.
Interior of B-24 aircraft. Muzzle of .50 caliber gun. Waist gun window and gun sight. B-24 aircraft flying. View of B24D "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in flight (SN 41-11913 of the 98th Bombardment Group, the B-24 Liberator unit nicknamed the "Pyramidiers". This aircraft went down May 1, 1943 after flying into another aircraft in a cloud). Front part of B-24 over muzzle of .50 cal gun. Aerial views of B-24s flying. B-24 named "The Witch" seen (SN 41-11840 of the 98th BG "Pyramiders". This aircraft was lost August 1, 1943 in Operation Tidal Wave raid of Ploiesti Romania oil refineries). Artwork on both of the above "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Witch" was painted by Amos Nicholson. Clip closes with echelon of three B-24s seen. Footage shot during return to base following bombing mission over Naples and Messina, Italy. (World War II period).
Ladder extends from the swimming pool in Fort Richardson, Alaska. Two swimmers come out of the pool. A building partly covered with snow. Sign in front of building reads "BASE EDUCATIONAL CENTER".
A lake in Seward, Alaska. Mountains in the background. Army officer and other people on the deck of a ship look towards the lake. Town at the base of mountains.
Housatonic River at the base of a rocky hillside in United States. Sikorsky U.S. Army helicopter flies on an exhibition of flight control. A woman at grasslands. Helicopter flies under an over bridge.
United States sailors load ammunition and a machine gun onto a PBY Catalina amphibian plane parked on the ramp at a Navy base in the Pacific Theater, during World War 2. Sailors,standing on the aircraft wing, pull the number one propeller through before the engine is started.A sailor on the wing stands fireguard, as the number two engine is started.
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