Actor Raymond Massey in an office discussing importance of American military readiness. Street scenes in Manhattan, New York City. View from buiding overlooking Times Square in Mahattan, with Astor Hotel at left. Camera pans up (northward). Shift to North American Air Defense (NORAD) command center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where U.S. Air Force men and women mark aircraft positions on plexiglass status board. During this exercise,NORAD Commander,General Laurence S. Kuter,USAF,with NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, at his side, picks up phone to alert defense forces. View of DEW line radar site where men monitoring radar screens pick up returns from two incoming bombers. A NORAD radar picket ship at sea and sailor inside detecting incoming bombers on his radar screen. An airborne Lockheed EC121 Radar picket aircraft and crew member inside detecting targets on his radar screen. Views of personnel at various NORAD centers sending and receiving detailed information about the detected aircraft. Canadian and U.S. officers communicating on "red telephone." General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon, consulting in NORAD headquarters command center. A Navy Captain on the "red phone." Klaxon horn alerts Royal Canadian Air Force intercepter crew who scramble to their aircraft. Canadian Avro CF-100 Canuck interceptors taking off. General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon engaged in the NORAD command center. Unidentified 4-star Air Force General using "red phone." SAC bombers on airborne alert. Air Force officer alerts interceptor squadron. Pilots scramble and run to their F-102 aircraft. F-102, tail number 53-107 taxiing from hangar. Pilots quickly entering their aircraft and being secured in cockpits. F-102s taxiing at high speed.BOMARC missile readied. Civil defense officials issue air raid alert.
Two ordnance men stand at bomb elevator aboard USS Constellation in North Vietnam. The elevator comes to flight deck level with bombs on a bomb cart. Ordnance men, one backing off with a bomb cart loaded with bombs. Man walks backwards over flight deck with two bombs on a bomb cart. AO backs off elevator with two bombs on a bomb cart. He wheels the cart over flight deck toward the aircraft. Bull pup attached under wing of an A-4C plane. A man in red shirt off to left and other men under wing of aircraft. The man in red shirt pulls on a bomb cart. Three bombs on pylon under A-4C. Bomb carts on flight area next to island ready for loading aboard aircraft. AO wheels two bombs. Red shirt man under wing of an aircraft. AO works with two bombs. Bombs and rockets on pylon. Men work around aircraft F4B, getting it ready for flight. Box on bomb cart loaded with fuses. AO wheels box. Two AO hoist up a section of the rocket pod and secure it to the rack. AO wheels up two bombs. AO works around under wing of aircraft. AO with his red shirt tied around his waist, working over after section of port engine. Flight deck area shows tractors moving about. Two F-4B planes stationary in the background. A-3B in the background. AO with a belt of 2Omm ammo walks.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Two United States Coast Guard men aboard an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry). A British battleship of the Warspite class underway at sea. A British transport ship underway. A British Coast Guard, with a Red Cross on his steel helmet, smokes a cigarette aboard a vessel. A destroyer of Livermore class underway at sea. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) with a barge pushed up to the loading ramp. A Landing Craft Infantry loaded with soldiers at sea. A signal man mans a 24 inch signal light on the signal bridge of a vessel. He unlocks the pivot of the 24 inch signal light.
United States sailors during the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War 2. Two U.S. Navy Signalmen send red light blinker signals. The sun sets in the sea and yellowish sea water as seen from the ships of the task force. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) underway as seen from another naval vessel sailing in the sea.
Allied landings at Anzio, Italy during World War 2. A DUKW ( amphibious tank ) unloads from an LST ( Landing Ship Tank). The DUKW underway at sea and moves towards land. U.S. Army 3rd Division soldiers in a Higgins boat head for a beach. Vehicles and other equipment being unloaded from the LST on a portable dock at Red Beach, south of Anzio. Soldiers of 74h Signal Battalion eat C rations. Equipment comes ashore. The LST in the background.
Near the end of World War 1, United States naval ship underway in rough seas. A United States flag on the ship. Allied troops on the march, through a town, in the snow. A map of Soviet Russia, highlighting cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. American warship in Vladivostok harbor. A Japanese warship in Vladivostok harbor. Japanese Naval officers pose. Relaxed, smiling, unarmed American soldiers pose, playfully, on the wharf, with two armed Japanese sailors. Contingent of Japanese sailors, with arms stacked, seen with officer, on the wharf. Officials on a British ship in Vladivostok harbor. Several men of the 'White Army' (White Russian Army) in Russia. The White Army executes members of the 'Red Army' proximate to time frame of Russian Civil War following Russian Revolution. Map display highlights cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol. Crowd jams wharf as White Russian soldiers disembark from troop ship (several ambulatory wounded, first). A man offers officers a plate of refreshments. Crowd follows troops marching off the wharf. Map shown highlighting cities of Tbilisi and Baku. Russian communists celebrating.
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