U.S. Strike Command exercise Bold Shot, at Eglin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Air Force T-38 aircraft takes off from runway during the exercise. Aircraft in flight after take off.
Klaxon horns sound alert signals and U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) flight crews, on alert, stop what they are doing and rush from their quarters to jeeps, that take them to their aircraft. They are seen clambering aboard their bomber aircraft. Closeup of a B-47E-30-LM Stratojet bomber, tail number 52-264, taxiing. Closeup of its wheels. The B-47 taking off from a base in the continental United States. In Alaska, a B-52 bomber taxis on a plowed taxiway in a snowy airfield. Local people watch as two B-52 bombers take off from a SAC base in Africa. Formations of B-52 bomber in flight. View of Air Force personnel inside the SAC headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Scene shifts to a B-47 bomber flying directly overhead and an Atlas missile being launched. Glimpse of pilot and copilot inside the cockpit of a SAC bomber in flight. A nuclear bomb dropping from an open bomb bay viewed from inside the aircraft. An atomic explosion during one of the tests conducted by the United States, in the Pacific, from 1946 to 1958.
United States ship Langley (CV-1) underway as a United States Aeromarine 39-B aircraft crashes on the deck. At end of final approach, the airplane rolls to the right and lower right wing strikes the leading edge of the flight deck and breaks off. The aircraft ends nosed over and severely damaged. A Douglas DT-2 with pontoons (float plane) is catapulted from the carrier. Sailors sit beside the flight deck of the USS Langley.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon's answers to a panel during a special television program in Michigan. A panelist questions about demonstrations on streets of United States. He speaks of drawing destructive revolutionaries towards another justifiable cause for progress of United States. He raises his hope of justice and progress.
U.S. President John F Kennedy at an air show in Florida,United States. President Kennedy arrives at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. President with the Chief of Staff of United States Air Force General Curtis LeMay. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson seated. Aircraft (F-100's) in formation flight as they drop bombs. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Mass mid air refueling being demonstrated by F-100s getting fuel from KB-50 tanker aircraft. President Kennedy and General LeMay look on. An F-101 aircraft hits a drone plane with air to air missiles. (Narrator mistakenly calls them F-102s.) F-100 aircraft drop Napalm bombs. The bombs flip end over end during descent and explosions are seen as they impact.
Chairman of United States Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon in the United States. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley enters his office at the Pentagon. A sign above the door reads 'Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff'. An officer enters a building. General Bradley and USAF Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg leave the building. General Vandenberg gets into a car and drives away. General Bradley gets into another car and leaves.
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