Activities at an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A naval crew disembarks from a navy bus and enters a building. A U.S. Air Force C-141A Starlifter aircraft on a flight line seen through the window of the bus. Airmen carry personal gear from the bus to the C-141A Starlifter aircraft. An airman opens the aircraft's crew door. The aircrew boards. Other aircraft parked on the air base in the background.
Activities at an air base on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A control tower at the air base. The United States Air Force C-141A Starlifter aircraft on a flight line. Cargo is loaded on the aircraft. Open cargo doors of the aircraft. A tower controller talks into a microphone and fills a data sheet. He watches the takeoff of a U.S. Navy P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft in the background.
Launch of the Redstone Guided Missile in the United States. Visitors at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan. The Redstone Guided Missile ready to be launched at the air base. U.S. Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber aircraft being destroyed off the coast of Florida. An aircraft makes a crash landing on the deck of USS Essex in San Diego. It falls into water. A rescue helicopter pulls the aircraft on the deck of USS Essex.
A robot jet bomber is tested by United States Air Force in Florida. At a USAF base the multi jet B-47 Stratojet bomber taxis and takes off. The bomber is under complete remote control. Operators control each stage of its flight from the base. The bomber in flight.
Welcome and honor of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Junior in Cape Canaveral. John Glenn disembarks from an aircraft at Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral. Glenn is greeted and welcomed by his wife, children, mother and father. They arrive at Cape Canaveral town from the air base. Civilians greet and welcome Glenn. The President of the United States John F. Kennedy presents the Space Distinguished Service Medal praising his courage.
U.S. Army H-19 Helicopter approaches an Allied military camp in Pusan (Busan) area in South Korea, and lands on a pierced steel plank pad. It keeps engines running and rotors turning as several foreign allied officers climb out. U.S. Army military police (MPs) surround the helicopter and begin unloading what look like wooden footlockers. One MP checks off items on a clipboard. Two more foreign Allied officers get off the helicopter (one is a woman). Allied troops at the base help them into a car, and they drive away. A line of 6 MPs carries 5 of the offloaded boxes, across snowy ground. American soldiers standing around, watching, take photographs. Allied soldiers at the base load many wooden boxes into an army truck, which then drives away. Ground is covered with melting snow. (Korean War period)
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