A film titled: 'Fighter Photo-Eyes of the Fleet' on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A board reads: "Composite Squadron Sixty One - VC-61" outside a building of Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, United States. F9F Panther aircraft in formation fly by. A jeep arrives. A pilot gets off the jeep. The pilot arrives near the building. Men load cameras in an airplane. Interior of an office. Officers seated at a desk in the office. The pilot shakes hands with the officers. They look at a model of an aircraft. The pilot walks with his luggage. A jeep arrives near him. He shakes hands with the man driving the jeep and talks to him. He sits in the jeep. The jeep drive away. Buildings along the sides of a street. The jeep comes to a halt and the man gets off. Man enters building with sign "BOQ Office". Inside a man loads film into a camera. The man seated with other crew members inside a building. An officer instructs them on aerial reconnaissance photography techniques in the classroom. View of three Republic F9F Panther aircraft in formation flight overhead. The man looks at the aircraft. He writes a formula and explains to the crew.
The coverage of the Boeing 1960 Progress Report covering the development and production of U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress G and H models. Interior of Boeing Wichita Plant in Kansas, United States. A high altitude view of the plant. Officials gather in the plant. The CTCI follows the CDI. The officials discuss. They scrutinize the changes in the H model of the aircraft. The model of the aircraft. A man makes a sketch and experiments for the model of the aircraft. Engineers wearing boeing lab coats conduct tests.
A film about training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. A train on the roll. Officers at a desk as they plan for a mock attack on a railroad train to impart practical training to 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel. Security guards aboard the train as they fire at attacking airplanes. Air attack causes damage to railroad track. Personnel inspect the damaged track. Caboose being informed about the damage. Security guards move to vantage points to provide a protection cover during repairing work. A signal man goes up a pole to make connection to an open telephone line. He makes a call to a dispatcher and the First Sergeant. The First Sergeant blows a whistle and repair parties load onto trucks. Others load onto railroad motor cars. A sign reads '725th Ry. Opn. Bn.'. The repair parties in trucks arrive at the site of the attack and equipment being unloaded. Broken tyres being removed. Another repair crew arrives. Rails being put in place and angle bar being used to tighten the bolts. A train rolls on the tracks. Guards on duty aboard the train. (World War II period).
A film about assembling of a sea mule tug in the United States. The instrument panel of the tug being connected. An oil-air pressure gauge being assembled. A wire cable being guided down a control tower. A cable being fastened to a terminal block. A heat indicator tube being removed. A tachometer being assembled and a cable being plugged in.
German ballistic missile A-4 being test fired from Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. The A-4 missile on a launch pad near a launch tower. Billows of smoke rise. A gauge shows a reading. The missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. It is in flight. A part of the missile explodes and descends. The A-4 missile in flight. The missile descends through the air.
German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany. A-4 missile on a launch pad near a launch tower. Smoke rises from the tail section. Smoke rises as A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. Missile in flight as it emits a flare. A-4 missile explodes in mid air. Another A-4 missile lifts off as it emits a fiery flare. (World War II period).
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