Ground and air search operations for missing crewmen of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 aircraft of 99th Bomb Wing. The plane crashed against the side of Elephant Mountain, Maine. Brigadier General Alvan C Gillem II (Commander 57th Air Division, SAC), Major General James H Walsh (Deputy Commander, SAC, 8th Air Force ), doctor, medic and ambulance driver waiting for arrival of helicopter at Dow Air Force Base, Maine. CH-3B landing and taxiing to stop as directed. B-52 survivors, Captain Gerald Adler (navigator) and Lieutenant Colonel Dante Bulli (flight commander) transferred from aircraft, by Pararescueman TSgt Gene Slabinski, to field ambulance.
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Electric engine generator used for firing the engines of the B-47 as officer starts its operation. A small cylinder holding hydraulic fluid hit by unseen object, a flame erupts and it burns up immediately. A B-47 aircraft lands at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. A parachute brakes trail behind as the aircraft lands. Boeing aircraft manufacturing plant with the nose section of B-47 aircraft protrudes in the scene, large shaping machine in the foreground. Operator shapes section of an aircraft fuselage at production factory. A typist at desk. A young woman operates a mimeograph machine. Civilian men office workers wearing suits sit at desks and confer on drawings and plans for aircraft. A man gets into a U.S. mail carrier cab. A young woman operates an adding machine and makes entries into a ledger. A steno and a woman Air Force officer file cabinets. A mechanic works on an electrical generator section of wind tunnel. A worker takes out books at a library, a female worker cuts out sections of Photostats from large roll. A document marked secret. Women Air Force officers assemble sections of paper work on aircraft. File clerk files up paper work on project. Air Force Officer and a civilian contractor discuss plans.
U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff meets to discuss Project Guard Rail at SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Nebraska, United States. Ramp rolls up to an aircraft at Offutt Air Force Base as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L Gilpatric and General Lemnitzer alight. The officials get in staff cars and drive away. U.S. Joint Strategic Target Planning staff gathered in the SAC's operations map room for a group picture. The officers include Commandant of U.S. Marine Corps General David M Shoup, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral George W Anderson, Chief of U.S. Army General Lemnitzer, Secretary McNamara, Deputy Secretary Gilpatric, U.S. Army General George H Decker, Chief of Staff and Chief of U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay, Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense General Lawrence S Kuter, Admiral Harry D Felt Commander of Pacific Command, General Thomas S Power, Admiral R L Dennison Commander of the Atlantic Command, Air Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander General Samuel E Anderson, Commander of Naval Forces in Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Admiral Harold P Smith, Commander of USS TRICOM General Paul De Witt Adams, U.S. Army Commander of the Caribbean region Lieutenant General Andrew P O'Mera.
Assassination of United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Brief shot of Air Force One aircraft on runway before taking off from Love Field in Dallas Texas, carrying the body of the President to Washington DC. Still image of Lyndon Baines Johnson taking the oath of office en route back to Washington, as he becomes the new President of the United States. Air Force One taking off from Love Field in Dallas. View of Air Force One parked at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Pallbearers and other attendants take out the casket from the airplane and place it in a hearse. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy follows, holding the hand of Robert Kennedy, and they are assisted down from the lift to the ground. Mrs. Kennedy moves up to enter the hearse carrying the President's body. Brief view of mourners and people gathered behind fences at the airport. President Johnson and his wife debark from Air Force One. The President addresses the people through a microphone. He speaks about the sudden death of former President Kennedy and states that he will do his best for the country. Exterior of the White House at night. President Johnson and his wife debark from a helicopter at the White House. People gather near the White House to greet the new President. View through a White House window of President Johnson and advisors meeting that night.
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
A film about Allied air attacks on Italy during World War II . Damaged railroad sections and marshalling yards in Italy. A map of Corsica. A sign on a building reads 'Bar Napoleon'. A man climbs up an observation tower at Alto Airbase in Corsica. A crew member turns propellers of a U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft. A truck carries shells. The man turns the propellers of the aircraft. A crew member fuels the aircraft. A U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in a bed at the air base. The pilot gets up and prepares to leave for a mission. Pilots wash their faces, brush and shave. A pilot gets up and washes his face in a trailer. Allied pilots being briefed inside a tent. A map depicts the area under attack by U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army. Allied operations in Anzio. Aerial view of damaged buildings in Casino after an Allied air raid. Animated map depicts Allied planning for Operation Strangle.
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