Teledyne Ryan BQM-34 F jet-powered drone being recovered in mid air at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. Aerial view of a CH-3 helicopter in flight . Visible beneath it is equipment that is part of its Mid-Air Retrieval System (MARS). A BQM-34 F Firebee drone drops from a C-130 aircraft, and descends on a main parachute. The helicopter snags a striped engagement parachute attached to the Firebee drone and continues in flight, pulling the Firebee behind it.
Operation Little Switch ((first phase of Operation Big Switch) in which released United States prisoners of war from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo. The wife of Captain Dean of the Air Force, a returnee, chats with U.S. Air Force General Otto P. Weyland. A U.S. aircraft in the background at Tachikawa Airbase. Captain Dean walks down the ramp of an aircraft with his wife. He kisses his wife. General and other officers stand in the background. Both of them sit in a car. The released POW walking at the air base. Women take pictures.
Lieutenant General James W. Wilson, Major General Charles R. Bond, Jr., Deputy Commander 7th Air Force/13th Air Force and other VIPs leave Base Theater after NCO briefing by staff car. They arrive at flight line where General Wilson and General Charles board a camouflaged C-130A plane. Plane taxis.
Strategic Air Command (SAC) Headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Views of the so-called "Scramble Horn." When sounded, SAC aircrews, standing alert, must immediately respond to their aircraft ready to take off on a mission. The horn, atop wooden beams, near power lines, appears approximately 5 feet in diameter and resembles a power line insulator.
Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba, by armed Cuban exiles. Exile leaders of Cuba at their base. Cuban warships on alert in sea. United States Air Plane and crew carries aid to the exile guerrillas. A United States soldiers with exile guerrillas in jungle. Captured exile soldiers guarded by riflemen. U.S. flag at exile base. Cuban soldiers and their commanders. Fidel Castro addresses his soldiers. Tanks during the battle. Surrendered guerrillas with hands raised.
Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor aircraft in England. A pilot gets into the cockpit of a Gloster Meteor aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a base. Men look on as the aircraft takes off. The aircraft returns to the base and taxis after landing.
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