Evacuation drills for dependents from Castle Air Force Base in California, United States, during the Cold War. Sign at entrance to Castle Air Force Base. An officer telephones and informs a family to vacate the camp. A woman informs other families via a telephone tree or telephone pyramid. Family members including parents and children load essential belongings in cars. View of base housing and suburb housing. People sitting in cars and the cars being drive out of the camp. People get out of the cars and walk on the ground. A young boy is surprised and startled by the motion picture camera and backs up to join his mother. The families gather together at a picnic area or park under palm trees.
Squadron sign '332ND FIS WORLD'S TOP FIGHTER SQUADRON' over doors. Pilot run down stairs. Pilots running through doors and boarding ADC F-102A at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland.
Mileage sign indicating distance from Thule Air Force Base in Greenland to various cities throughout world. Lineman climbs utility pole and repairs line.
Pilot climbs into the cockpit of B-47 in United States. He wears heavy parka and puts on his helmet. He closes the canopy of B-47 on snow covered ramp. Ground crewmen pull covers off aircraft's right wing inboard engines. They toss them into a snow bank at edge of alert area clearing and then they run back towards the aircraft. Control tower at Loring Air Force Base, Maine. Tower operator speaks into hand-held mike. Second operator talks on telephone in the background. Ground crew removes chocks from wheels and air intake covers from right wing engines of a RATO equipped B-47. Snow covered alert ramp at Loring Air Force Base.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers arrive at Wiesbaden Air Base in Germany. A C-121 Constellation taxis on a flight line. A ramp being pushed towards the aircraft. Senator Bricker and his wife come out of the aircraft. They are greeted by Lieutenant General William H. Tunner, Commander United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) and his wife. Several other congressmen and their wives debark from the aircraft and are greeted by the General and his wife. The group then poses for still shots. The side of the ramp reads 'Wiesbaden Air Base Germany'. The group then leaves in staff cars.
Beach scene at Tumon Bay, Guam in 1945, at end of World War 2 . Bathers and some small boats in water of a bay. Sand beach covered with palm trees and other semitropical flora. People seated on the sands. Water of the bay and promenatory of land in background. Different sequence, showing three U.S. Landing Craft Support, Large, LCS (L) clustered together at anchor in a bay, with buildings on shore in background. The mast of a U.S.warship. A U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber in flight overhead. It displays tail code of solid black square with "M" inside, identifying it as belonging to the 20th Air Force, 314th Bomb Wing, 19th Bomb Group, based at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam. Camera focuses on the bomber as it passes overhead. Sailors speed into the bay, aboard a motor boat. The B-29 circles directly overhead, passing the American flag displayed on the main mast of a warship. The B-29 appears to be descending to land at the airbase.
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