NATO Exercise Strikeback. SACLANT. U.S. guided missile destroyer, DDG type, seen cruising at high speed. View of DDG firing missiles to starboard. Missiles striking near target and then striking target with explosion. Formation of small boats, equipped with large reels of cable, towing targets during the naval exercises. Hull numbers 12,and 13, are visible.
Interior of U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS Ohio (SSBN-726). Captain and crew in the command compartment of the submarine. Captain talks on radio phone. A crewman in control compartment, wears a headset and records readings pertaining to bank of indicators (missile status?). Officers stand and confer over a technical manual and crewmen work at their stations in Command compartment of the Polaris submarine. Crewmen at station in reactor control compartment of the submarine. Crewman stands before panel containing rheostat switches. Officer watches. Crewman with hand on panel containing guarded toggle switches.
Interior of U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS Ohio (SSBN-726). Officer and crew in missile control compartment, as they prepare to fire missiles. Crew seated in the Command compartment of the submarine. Two officers stand holding on railings in a compartment of the submarine.
The U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS Ohio (SSBN-726) commences launch of a missile, while submerged. Huge volume of air bubbles is seen.
U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS Ohio (SSBN-726) launches a missile while submerged. Missile emerges from the submarine hull and rushes upwards in cloud of bubbles. Aerial view from above shows circle, on ocean surface, formed by air bubbles. Slow motion images show missile emerging from surface, engulfed in a mountain of water and foam that completely obscures subsequent images. Another view shows missile breaking surface and streaking skyward with trail of flame behind. It penetrates cloud layer and continues out of sight.
Idled ships and cranes at damaged port of Yokahoma, Japan, seen right after end of hostilities in World War 2. Port facilities reduced to steel skeletons from bombing by USAAF in the war. Camera pans over the city from a high point of land. Ocean in background. Wide swaths of completely burned-out areas in the foreground. There is hardly any notable human activity. Scene changes completely to aerial view from aircraft flying overhead. Brief glimpse of a U.S. B-24 Liberator bomber flying below, close to the ground (probably preparing to land). Aerial view of airfield in distance.
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