The Four Power Paris Summit in Paris, France after the 1960 U-2 reconnaissance aircraft incident. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with dignitaries. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower shakes hands with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle Mr. Khrushchev addresses a farewell press conference. He is accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko and Soviet Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A flight surgeon does a preflight physical checkup of a pilot in the United States. The flight surgeon in a room. A pilot approaches him and sits down in a chair. The flight surgeon takes temperature and blood pressure readings of the pilot.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot eats steak and egg before a flight in the United States. He uses a fork and a knife to eat. An attendant brings a dish.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman takes a helmet and an MC-3A partial pressure suit from a rack and keeps them back after checking them in the United States. The airman helps a pilot in getting suited for a flight. He helps the pilot in donning the suit and putting on his shoes. Another airman comes in and hands over a helmet to the first airman who helps the pilot in putting it on. Another helmet is put on the previous one. The airmen helps the pilot in putting on gloves.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. An airman helps a pilot. The pilot walks to a chair and sits in it. The airman helps the pilot in getting ready for a flight.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. Photo intelligence personnel examine aerial photographs of ships and plot their course by shadow in the United States. One of the personnel examines the photographs using a magnifying lens. The other one looks into a booklet and plots a course using a ruler and a pencil.
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