'Countdown for Deterrence' outlines the activities involved in a LGM-30 Minuteman missile operational test launches. View of several Mark 12 Reentry vehicles glowing as they enter the atmosphere at the Western Test Range in the Pacific Ocean. The Minuteman III missiles carrying them are seen being launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California. Launch crews at controls. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test launch operations begins at Vandenberg AFB. Exterior of building. Data analysis by officers. Scheduling officers at work. Launch tube of missile. Shows various officers responsible for launching of missile. Launch director in conference with ICBM test maintenance personnel. Maintenance of launch tube by the maintenance crew. The missile components arrive in Vandenberg AFB. Crew in underground silo work. Tape deck which records messages from SAC HQ. A Red box which contains secret codes for the launch of the missiles is double padlocked. Pre-recorded voice reports on the current status of the missile. An officer instructs Task Force personnel in Vandenberg AFB. Task Force commander confers with two officers.
Aerial view of U.S. Army Americal Division base (aka 23rd Infantry Division) at Chu Lai in Vietnam. Temporary buildings in the base. Dirt roads crisscross the base. The Americal base is surrounded by thick jungle. Smoke comes out of the chimney of a building in the base. (Vietnam War period).
Naval bases in Dong Hai, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Aerial view : two Vietnamese Navy Bases. A river near the bases. Two navy bases and a large water body in the background. Small islands off a coast. Another small navy base at Dong Hai.
Minuteman missile test facility under construction at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Sign beneath statue reads 'Ogden Air Material Area, Hill Air Force Base, Minuteman'. Traffic pass on road. Aerial view of Minuteman I test facility under construction. Drawing of instrumented Minuteman I launch silo. Minuteman II test site under construction. Crane in operation. Minuteman aging and surveillance farm in Hill Air Force Base. Igloos above ground for storing aging and surveillance motors. Men inspecting motor. Test performance of Minuteman missile.
Operations of the Hurricane Hunters at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. A data sheet being removed from a dropsonde read-out instrument aboard a United States Air Force Lockheed WC-130 Hercules. A sign at the entrance of a building reads: 'Welcome to Ramey Air Force Base, Home of the 72nd Bomb Wing (H), 72nd Combat Support Group'. The Lockheed WC-130 Hercules aircraft taxiing at the air base. Buildings in the background. The airplane in flight overhead. A duty officer removing a weather report from a teletype machine. He hands the report to Major Stewart.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the area. U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopters in flight. Fire Support Base Lima. U.S. and South Vietnamese medics carry an injured Vietnamese soldier aboard a UH-1D helicopter. The pilot at the controls in the cockpit. Medics carry the wounded soldier off the helicopter at the 2nd ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) hospital. The UH-1D helicopter takes off. Vietnamese and United States soldiers seated around a table in the jungle. Numerous tents nearby.
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