Man fills balloon with calcium-hydride gas in weather balloon during U.S. Army coordinated test near Thule Air Base, Greenland. Another man operates Radar Antenna. Man walks out of igloo, attaches radiosonde to the balloon and releases it. The balloon moves upward. Man positions Radar Antenna.
U.S. Army personnel check graphs and prepare weather data sheet near Thule Air Base, Greenland. They check radiosonde equipment that was sent aloft by weather balloon. Man records surface winds and temperatures. Man speaks over telephone.
Film "Its What You Make It" promoting work and lifestyle for military personnel working in the Washington DC area. Clip opens with an aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, near Washington DC, headquarters for the U.S. Military Army, Navy, and Air Force branches. Cars parked in the foreground. Officers and women walk up the stairs of Pentagon. Civilian and military coats hang on coat rack. Military and civilian personnel perform clerical duties in the Pentagon. Personnel gathered around a Pentagon conference table. Flags of many nations in the background. Lieutenant General E.O. Donnell Jr, United States Air Force speaks at his desk.
Exterior building views of University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Washington University and American University. United State military personnel go through a rifle drill. Man on diving board doing backward somersault into a swimming pool. Group of U.S. military soldiers play billiards and also watch a movie. Couples dancing in the early 1950s, including some swing dancing moves. Football game being played between Bolling Air Force base and Quantico Marine base teams.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Force C-124 taxiing in the snow, on four engines at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Canada. It has flaps set at takeoff position. Next, the aircraft takes off somewhat obscured by snow. Hazy view through snow of several C-124 aircraft parked on the airfield ramp. Glimpse of one aircraft taking off toward the camera. More aircraft parked on the snowy ramp. Two C-124s being serviced on the ramp. Air crew gathered beneath one. Change of scene to air crews being briefed in an auditorium.
Lieutenant Brown at wall map using pointers, briefs crew on route map at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. He points out at Thule Air Force Base, Walker Air Force Base on map.
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