U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft in flight in the foreground. F-100 drops a Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bomb on enemy structures. The bomb descends and explodes amidst enemy structure near flooded fields 18 miles south of Saigon on 10th September.
U.S. air strikes in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. USAF (United States Air Force) Douglas A-1G Skyraider attack aircraft drop two Mark 82 (Mk.82) high-drag bombs on open flat terrain in support of Operation MacArthur. The bombs explode on the terrain, 30 miles east, to the southwest of Pleiku, on 10 September. Douglas A-1G Skyraider releases BLU-27 incendigel bombs (like napalm) followed by explosions in grove of trees 55 miles south southwest of Pleiku in support of "Operation MacArthur."
Trooper in sandbag bunker. Military ambulance moves up roadway. An ambulance moves down past gatehouse and circles to left. Buildings in the background, part of Tan Son Entrance Base complex. Men stand near jeep and other men stand near stone wall in the background with rifles. Small ambulance moves along roadway, truck bars most of road. Troopers talk on road. Trooper with armored vest, jeep passes directing traffic. Circle of smoke in sky from bombing in the distant background. Men off-load ammunition from UH-1D helicopter. They stack it in truck in the background. Vietnamese handle ammunition and carry it off, some ammunition lowered into UH-1D. UH-1D takes off from revetment. Two parachute flares in night sky, rows of white lights. An explosion occurs in the far background. (Vietnam War period).
Command and control center in headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense), at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, and NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, step into the Center, to observe activities. Based on teletype messages, U.S. airman marks aircraft positions on plexiglass overlay of NORAD area map. Staff of the center phone information to other elements of NORAD. View of concrete SAGE combat center with staff at large radar monitors. USAF Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft take off on an interception exercise. They are seen at altitude, firing air-to-air munitions, under command of the SAGE combat center. A CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile is raised at a NORAD site and then launched. View inside the underground Command Control Center of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Officers oversee the operation. B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are seen taking off. A SAC Major General at desk with a "Red Phone" connecting all SAC elements and the White House (shown). Control room of a ballistic missile center. View of SM-65 Atlas intercontinetal ballistic missile on launch pad and then launching. Civil defense officials man phones of national warning system, from NORAD headquarters. The system's links to North American cities shown on map. City street scenes.
Activities of United States Air Forces Cessna O-1E Bird dog Forward Air Controller (FAC) aircraft of the 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron at Danang airbase in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Airplanes parked on the airbase. Two O-1Es taxiing towards crew chief and stopping after the mission. Crewmen refueling O-1E on the flight line. Other airplane parked nearby.
Opening scene shows a U.S. Titan intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an underground silo. U.S. airmen at monitoring stations in a missile launch control room. An airman working to maintain and repair missile-related equipment and accessories. An Force Captain overseeing airmen at control room work stations. Astronaut John Glenn stepping from a NASA structure, fully suited in space suit, and climbing into a Mercury Space Capsule. Air Force personnel engaged in sports to maintain fitness, playing softball, volleyball, and basketball. An airman typing at a desk job. An Air Force woman sorting 88 column Hollerith cards punch cards by machine. An airman performing calisthenics outside his quarters on an Air Base. Another airman typing expertly at a desk job. Airmen lifting large boxes. Air Force personnel bowling for recreation. Others playing badminton at an Air Force Base. Airmen bicycling out the gate of an Air Base. Air Force bombers parked on a flight line. One, a B-52, is fitted with a large pointed missile underneath its wing.
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