Richard Mackey enters the U.S. Air Force at 20 years old, measuring only 4 feet 7 inches. Air force recruits in San Antonio, Texas. Man tries to fit a coat on the small man. Airmen stand behind a counter and take their uniform issue at a supply depot. Richard is four feet and seven inches tall and 107 pounds. A man tries to fit an air force uniform on him. The recruits perform a drill and march, with Mackey trying to keep up. Mackey with a cigarette in his mouth, lighting the cigarette of another soldier.
United States Army Air Forces Martin B-26 Marauder, a World War II twin-engine medium bomber, drops bombs over targets in Germany near the end of World War II. Captain Browning in a USAAF B-26 Marauder over Germany. POV shots from cockpit. The B-26 bomber drops bombs. B-26 landing gears lower. POV from cockpit as the B-26 lands and taxis along the perimeter strip. Crewmen on the ground directs the B-26 for parking. A Lieutenant plots out flak damage. The crewmen of the B-26 gathered around B-26 and in a jeep. An interrogating officer takes down flight data from the pilot. Crewmen inspect belt of damaged ammunition. A Lieutenant views the damaged ammunition. Note: a small bright object, possibly a foo fighter, is seen moving diagonally and downward across the frame from left to right in the first second or two of this clip.
Activities at U.S. 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing, Suwon AB (K-13), South Korea, during the Korean War. An F-86F Sabre, number FU-367, on the ramp. The F-86 belongs to the 36th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. A few 1000-pound bombs on a truck. An airman atop the truck beside the bombs. The bombs being lifted out of the truck on hooks. Two airmen standing beside the truck. A few men directing the bomb to a wheel cart. The wheel cart rolled away with the bomb. The ground is covered in pierced steel plank.
U.S. Air Force X-15A rocket powered aircraft in flight in the United States. An X-15A aircraft in flight. Men on top of a building as they look through binoculars at the X-15A aircraft during its test flight. Technicians at controls in NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) facility. A technician takes a reading. A graph of the course of flight of the X-15A aircraft is plotted. The aircraft comes in for a landing. The aircraft lands and taxis. A woman and man controlling an IBM 701 EDPM computer. A paper being printed. The woman hands over the paper to the technicians who look at it and converse.
United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre attempts landing in nose high altitude. Pilot (Lt. Barty R. Brooks) applies full power to go around for another attempt. But the aircraft fails to reestablish normal flight, instead, hovering nose high and under full power (Sabre Dance) and finally strikes right wing on ground and crashes in fireball.
The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division prior to the Siege of Plei Me in Qui Nhon, Vietnam. UH-1 Iroquois helicopters land at Quinhon. A line of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter on field. UH-1 Iroquois helicopter takes off as others warm up in the foreground. Line of Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter warming up. Soldiers walk near parked helicopters. M102 105mm Howitzer and a truck being loaded into the aircraft. A soldiers ties a string. (Vietnam War period).
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