United States experimental aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Board reads 'Air Force Flight Test Center'. Early model(1933) blue Coupe on the road. Other vehicles parked in the background at Edwards Air Force Base. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Everest gets out of the car and enters the building. Sign on a door reads 'Through these portals pass the oldest and boldest pilots in the world'. Frank Everest takes a seat at his desk and reads documents.
Ramstein Air Base and NATO Command Base in Germany: Two U.S. Air Force Captains, a pilot and weapons systems officer, walk out to their F-4E aircraft parked on the ramp. The pilot performs a preflight inspection. The aircraft is seen taxiing to the active runway. Logo of the 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing is painted on its fuselage. It also displays "RS" tail code, identifying it as belonging to the 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron. A flight of two F-4Es making a formation takeoff. Title of USAF feature, "The Sound of Vigilance" shown on screen.
Mountains and snow covered land at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. Elmendorf Air Force Base with mountains in the background. American interceptor aircraft F-102A on a takeoff run. Snow covered mountain ranges.
The Alto Air Base in Corsica, France during World War II. An observation tower at the airbase. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft at the base. Men load ammunition aboard the plane. A man unloads bombs from a bomb service truck. Bomb shells in the field. A man rotates the propellers of the aircraft. A pilot gets into the cockpit of a P-47. A man climbs up the observation tower.
View from rear of formation of U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadets marching in formation at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Their barracks and the base water tower are seen in the background. Scene shifts to a USAF T-33 jet training aircraft in flight. The aircrraft rolls over to the left and dives toward the ground below.
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
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