Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A photo intelligence personnel opens a door and lets in two personnel. Two other men enter the room pushing a trolley loaded with cartons of film. A personnel shuts the door. The film being signed for. A personnel puts a note on a chart on a wall. A personnel opens a door and lets in a few men. 'Special Projects Laboratory' written on the door.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A photo intelligence personnel brings in film, hands it to another personnel working on an equipment and leaves. The film is processed and spliced. Two personnel work on a machine. One of them leaves. He goes in through a door and looks at a print of a photograph brought in by another personnel.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot in a chair near a pre breathing apparatus in the United States. An airman adjusts the oxygen bottle of the apparatus in the mouth of the pilot. He walks to the apparatus and puts on a pair of headphones. The airman checks the pressure suit won by the pilot. The pilot gets up and walks away from the apparatus while carrying an oxygen cylinder.
Preparations for reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Crisis. A pilot is briefed by operations and intelligence officers in the United States. People, including a pilot, in a briefing room. An officer walks in. The officer and the pilot sit in chairs in front of a wall map. An officer briefs the pilot by pointing at the map with a pointer. He walks out. Another officer walks in and briefs the pilot. Yet another officer comes in for the briefing. The pilot and the officer sitting in the chairs go through some papers. Two more officers brief.
Reconnaissance activities by Strategic Air Command (SAC) Lockheed U-2 aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A car is driven down towards an entrance at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Film boxes are unloaded from the car and are loaded on a trolley by airmen. A captain accompanies the trolley being pushed towards a photo laboratory. The captain rings a bell for admittance to the laboratory. A board on the door of the laboratory proclaims it to be a restricted area. The door is opened and the trolley is pushed into the laboratory.
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower visits United States 35th Infantry Division troops in England during World War 2. General Eisenhower arrives at Exeter St Davids rail road station in the city of Exeter, Devon county, South West England. He gets into a car with a sign above that reads ' Great Western Railway ' General Eisenhower on a podium as he salutes to 320th Regiment troops of United States 35th Infantry. Troops lined up as General Eisenhower, along with General George S. Patton and Major General Paul W. Badde, review the soldiers. Soldiers in formation as General Eisenhower reviews them. (The 320th Regiment were based at Topsham Barracks in Exeter.)
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