View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
United States Army General Maxwell Davenport Taylor visit a base in Korea during the Korean War. General Maxwell Davenport Taylor with other officers as he inspects his command area. He walks past the captured field artillery for the training of the Republic of Korea Army (ROK Army). He walks past the military tanks. A soldier helps the general to embark onto a tank. The general looks at the captured weapons. A helicopter lands. General Maxwell Davenport Taylor disembarks from the aircraft. He is being greeted by the officers. The officers pose in front of a building.
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam. A drugged elephant in cargo. A United States Army (USA) soldier operates the fork lift. The net containing the elephant being lowered onto a wooden pallet and strapped down. Soldiers around the elephant on the wooden pallet. Elephant is transported towards the aircraft by a USA forklift. (Vietnam War period).
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai air base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Elephant stands on cargo net weaves from effects of drug. The elephant falls on the net. The elephant tries to get up. The United States Army (USA) special forces tie the cargo net around the elephant. The cargo net being lifted by a forklift. The net containing the elephant being placed onto a wooden pallet.
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. United States Army (USA) captain Scott Gantt fire a hypodermic dart (M-99) from air gun. Natives observe preparations for loading elephant onto the aircraft. The elephant tries to get up and falls on the cargo net. The USA special forces tie the cargo net around the elephant. A forklift in the background. Natives stand near a jeep.
Elephant being airlifted from Trang Phuc to Chu Lai Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A native rides elephant into a camp and elephant being prepared for loading. A United States Army soldier, Captain John Scott Gantt, pats the elephant. A native controls the elephant on the cargo net. He ties the legs of elephant with a metal chain. Soldiers at controls. Legs of the elephant tied to the forklift. The front legs tied with a metal chain. Elephant tries to pull the metal chain with a trunk. U.S. Army Captain Scott Gantt fires a hypodermic dart (M-99) from air gun.
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