A U.S. Air Force C54 aircraft taxis, with outboard engines shut down, to the ramp at Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland, during NATO Air Forces exercise Project Cirrus. Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, Commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces Europe, and Commanding general of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe, descends a long ladder to the ramp. He is greeted by A Dutch Air Force General and poses with other NATO Air Forces officers. He is briefed by a NATO officer, and then surrounded by reporters who interview him. Next, he enters a 1950 Ford sedan staff car and is driven away. The next scene shows Norstad in discussions with NATO fliers at a camp in open fields. Closeup of Norstad with two NATO Generals (one from Norway). Broader view of the group showing elements of the camp in the background.
A film 'The squadron officer school' about training of a USAF officer student attending Squadron Officer School at the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A USAF Lieutenant Colonel and a man seated at a desk talking to each other. The officer praises a report of a Captain. A officer in car stops and enters gate at Air University. USAF officers enter and leave Air University buildings. A large group of USAF officers in auditorium. An officer addresses the group. USAF officer looks at book in Air University library. Officers perform physical exercise. USAF officers and families in chapel during a service. Editor and Publisher of Flying Magazine Gil Robb Wilson speaks to the USAF officers in auditorium. Commander of Air University Lieutenant General Walter E Todd speaks. Dr. M H Sharlemann of the Concordia Theological Seminary addresses group. Football coach of University of Illinois Ray Elliot addresses group. Small group of USAF officers in classroom. USAF officers in auditorium attend lectures and discuss. They perform a skit. View of a missile hangar opening and a CIM-10 BOMARC missile of the United States Air Force being raised into firing position.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Tanks advance during a Soviet military operation. A missile mounted on an Army truck. Armored reconnaissance vehicles and armored personnel carriers assume their starting positions. Soviet military exercise: A ground crewman directs an aircraft at an air base. Tanks and equipment loaded into Antonov An-22 Cock and Ilyushin Il-76 Candid strategic air-lifters. Soldiers board transport aircraft. Aircraft take off, the fleet in flight. An officer communicates over the radio from a bunker. He gives orders to fire. Soviet Sukhoi Su-19 Fencers drop bombs. Fire and explosion due to the bombardment. Other weapons and rockets fired. Smoke clouds mushrooming towards the sky. Officers and soldiers watch through binoculars. A task force advances at sea. Senior Soviet officers. Soldiers in tank and on foot advance. Soldiers load shells, take aim and fire tank guns. Soviet helicopters in flight. Anti-tank surface to air missile SA-7 Grail or 9K32 'Strela-2' and infra-red guided surface to air missile SA-9 Gaskin or 9K31 Strela-1 are fired. Tanks hit in a field. A soldier in a tank aims and fires the tank gun. Machine guns fired. A pilot in an aircraft cockpit. Soviet aircraft in a dogfight. Rockets fires. Missiles ready to be fired. An intercontinental ballistic missile fired. Soviet troops in a transport aircraft in flight over mountains. Paratroopers jump out of the aircraft to begin attack from the air. Paratroopers with parachutes descend and land. They advance amidst heavy fire. Cushioned landings of crafts, tanks and other vehicles with parachutes. Tanks advance, missiles fired. Explosions and fire. Soldiers fire machine guns.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Army Air Corps Chief, General Arnold created Civilian Contract flying schools to train pilots. Recruits seen entering Spartan School of Aeronautics, Air Corps Training Detachment. Trainees being issued parachutes. Student pilots flying in Stearman training airplanes. P-51 mustang airplanes taxiing and in flight. Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo. General Arnold sitting with General Doolittle. President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to General Doolittle. Army Air Corps flyers being decorated by General Arnold. Scenes of air war in Europe from gun cameras of American aircraft. Lieutenant General Arnold mingling with air crews at an air base. An aircraft plant building B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. General Arnold with War Production Chief, Bill Knudsen.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations in Pacific theater during World War 2. Animation shows locations of U.S. 13th Air Force on New Caledonia and U.S. 5th Air Force on Australia. Map shows Hawaii. Main gate at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. U.S. 7th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft takes off from Hickam AFB. Animation shows the flight of bombers. Jeeps along a jungle highway. Sign on tree reads 'Ohare Field'. Gun crew clean machine guns. 75 mm canon in nose of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 being cleaned by ground crew. B-25 takes off from Coral airstrip. B-25s in formation. B-25s in flight firing cannons. B-25s strafing Japanese airfields.
Film begins showing view from a motor vehicle (unseen) as it drives toward a gateway lightly covered by snow, in places. A car and a motorcycle with sidecar pass in the opposite direction. The camera vehicle continues through the gateway , past an an ancient structure and courtyard leading to a tunnel that opens onto a street in the city of Bitburg, Germany. Several parked cars are seen along with several pedestrians. Classic old houses line the street, with narrow sidewalks between them and the roadway. A team of horses slowly pulls a covered wagon along an otherwise deserted section of the street. A few pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A tall structure, topped by a decorative tower, looms in the background. Scene changes to a U.S. soldier standing next to a TM-61 Matador tactical missile on a launch rail. View from vehicle driving past former German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Headquarters, now the U.S. 12th Air Force headquarters. It comprises several numbered entrances bunkered deep into the side of a hillside. An Air Force truck is parked outside of entrance number 3, and several U.S. Air Force airmen are also seen. One walks into the entrance, showing his identification to an Air Policeman at the door. Inside the complex, several U.S. Air Force officers discuss deployment of guided missiles in West Germany as part of West German defenses. One refers to a wall map as they converse. Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. speaks about the Tactical Missile Squadrons (Matador Squadrons) based in West Germany to counter aggression.
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