A U.S. Air Force F-106B Tandem Trainer mockup at the Convair Fort Worth Facility in Texas. The F-106B Tandem Trainer inside a hangar. Two pilots on a maintenance stand next to the F-106B mockup. One opens the canopy and both men climb-into aircraft. The maintenance stand is removed. Both pilots check over the instruments and manipulate the controls. The mockup is equipped with the side-stick configuration in both cockpits. Revised mockup configuration equipped with center-stick type controls. The accessibility of control switches and the side-stick configuration in the standard F-106P Tandem Trainer mockup. The horizontal position indicator mounted on the lower portion of the instrument panel, directly in front of the pilot. One of the pilots in the mockup manipulating the throttle mounted on the left side of the cockpit. A pilots looks into the radarscope hood. The pilot in the front cockpit manipulating the canopy control lever. Both pilots seated in the mockup trainer, canopy closing. Closed armament bay doors on the mockup. MB-1 rocket extended from the rocket bay of the mockup. Two pilots seated in the mockup. A technician uses a switch on the nose of the mockup to close the canopy.
MB-1 rocket rail-launched from a U.S. Air Force F-102A Delta Dagger at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Footage taken from GSAP (Gun Sight Aiming Point) camera mounted under right wing of F- 102 in flight. MB-1 rocket fired from rail launcher. Technicians work on F-102A parked outside a hangar. Two technicians wheel an MB-1 rocket on a dolly, underneath F- 102A parked on ramp. Three technicians check out and calibrate special instrumentation to be used during the test run. The instruments include different types of oscillographs, and photo panels. Special camera installations made on the F-102A vertical stabilizer, fuselage, and wings. Technician installs a l6mm camera inside the aircraft nose, then closes access panel. F-102A takes off. Radar vectoring station T-1 at Holloman AFB. Technician operates one of the tracking scanners installed on roof of building. Two men, inside the vectoring station, control the course of the test aircraft by radio communication from the vectoring machine plotting charts. The pilot in F-102A cockpit as he turns on the recording cameras to activate the armament system. MB-1 bomb extended below the aircraft. Engineer talks on the radio phone inside the vectoring station. Pilot's hand on the control stick as he activates the firing switch. MB-l rocket is fired from the short rail launcher. The aircraft is enveloped in a trail of white smoke. GSAP camera mounted underneath the right wing of the F-102A, shows the MB-l rocket being fired from the short rail launcher. Smoke due to the firing of the rocket.
U.S. soldiers at the 40th Infantry Division area in Seoul. Sergeant Tubb and Private First Calss (Pfc) Hill return from R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Japan. Hill and Tubb are driven in a U.S. Army jeep along valley road to the base of a hill. They leave the jeep with rifles and a field bag. One man carries combat boots in his hand. They walk to their company's position on the line. Snow on the hillside.
25th Infantry Division soldiers of the U.S. Army climb downhill the Nui Ba Dev Mountains in Vietnam. They move through dense foliage, stop and take rest along the rugged mountain trail. UH-1D helicopter of the U.S. Army hovers in the sky. It drops supplies and flies off. A bespectacled soldier reads a book entitled 'Once there was a War'. (Vietnam War period).
AH-1G helicopters of the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division attack enemy positions with machine guns and rockets during the Nui Ba Den Mountain assault in Vietnam. Smoke from bomb attacks. A soldier in prone position on the rocks. Thick black cloud of smoke rises. U.S. soldiers look from their positions. AH-1G helicopter also known as Cobra drops a bomb which falls into the valley below. Soldiers don their gear and prepare to move. A soldier talks on radio. Puddles of water. Soldiers take cover behind the rocks and fire with M60 machine gun and M16 rifles at enemies positioned below. (Vietnam War period).
UH-1D helicopters carry soldiers of 25th Infantry Division, 22D Infantry and 2D battalion of the U.S. Army to Nui Ba Den Mountain, Vietnam. Two UH-1D helicopters on the landing pad with their rotors turning. A U.S. soldier in the airborne helicopter has a M14 rifle with sniper scope. An officer in the helicopter talks on radio. The helicopter passes Nui Ba Den Mountain. A soldier watches as the helicopter approaches. The helicopters land and soldiers get off. The helicopters take off. (Vietnam War period).
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