U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff members arrive in staff cars at SAC headquarters. SAC Elite guards lined up outside the building. The officers enter the building. Elite guards lined up as a guard holds an insignia. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric arrive in a car. U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff lined up outside the SAC headquarters as Secretary McNamara inspects the SAC Elite guards.
Launching of the United States Navy cruise missile Regulus from United States Navy submarine USS Tunny (SS-282) in California, United States. The United States Navy Gato-class submarine USS Tunny gets underway in the Pacific Ocean and moves out of Port Hueneme, California. Tunny submerges in water. Aboard the submarine, missile men check the umbilical cable and electronic check out cable being plugged in. The missile circuits being energized. Men work on controls. Various automatic functions being checked. A man takes down readings as he monitors the results. The Commanding Officer at the periscope as he checks the launch area. Ignitors being installed in the booster. The missile being buttoned up and the umbilical cable being disconnected inside the hangar. A navigator checks the position. The USS tunny comes on the water surface. Hangar doors open and Regulus missile emerges from the hangar. Men on the deck in the foreground. Umbilical cable used for pre-umbilical launch check. The wings of the Regulus being unfolded and locked. External fuel being attached to the missile for warm up before take off. An air eject system being connected to detach umbilical cable. A black reflector shield being fitted out. Launcher being elevated to the firing position. Final checks being made. The umbilical cable ejects and missile being launched. USS Tunny submerges in water. Men at controls in the missile room. Radar and radio antennas aboard USS Tunny break through the water surface. A plot being maintained on the position of Tunny. A missile guidance officer guides men as they work on a plot.
U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in Berlin, Germany. Allied headquarters officers seated around a conference table with USAF Chief General Vandenberg. General Vandenberg discusses with an officer with flags of Allied nations in the background. Officers confer at the meeting.
Brief unrelated view of a man plastering a wall to repair it. Then: U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in Ottawa, Canada. USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg talks to various officers on the tarmac of an airfield in Ottawa. The General greets the dignitaries who arrive for the Ottawa Conference. Both men and women are seen . General Vandenberg talks to an officer as he smokes a cigarette. An aircraft in the background. Women talk at the airfield. Officers enter a building at the airfield.
U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in the United States. An official presents the National Safety World Wide award of honor to USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg as cameramen take pictures. General Vandenberg being presented the award for dedicated service to safety.
United States Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg at Pentagon in Virginia, United States. Bolivian Chief of Staff Major General Ovidio Quinoga being greeted by officers. An officer reads out a citation and General Vandenberg pins up a medal onto Major General Quinoga. General Vandenberg greets Major General Quinoga. Major General's wife greets her husband. Major General Quinoga being greeted by other officers.
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