Actor Raymond Massey in an office discussing importance of American military readiness. Street scenes in Manhattan, New York City. View from buiding overlooking Times Square in Mahattan, with Astor Hotel at left. Camera pans up (northward). Shift to North American Air Defense (NORAD) command center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where U.S. Air Force men and women mark aircraft positions on plexiglass status board. During this exercise,NORAD Commander,General Laurence S. Kuter,USAF,with NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, at his side, picks up phone to alert defense forces. View of DEW line radar site where men monitoring radar screens pick up returns from two incoming bombers. A NORAD radar picket ship at sea and sailor inside detecting incoming bombers on his radar screen. An airborne Lockheed EC121 Radar picket aircraft and crew member inside detecting targets on his radar screen. Views of personnel at various NORAD centers sending and receiving detailed information about the detected aircraft. Canadian and U.S. officers communicating on "red telephone." General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon, consulting in NORAD headquarters command center. A Navy Captain on the "red phone." Klaxon horn alerts Royal Canadian Air Force intercepter crew who scramble to their aircraft. Canadian Avro CF-100 Canuck interceptors taking off. General Kuter and Air Marshal Slemon engaged in the NORAD command center. Unidentified 4-star Air Force General using "red phone." SAC bombers on airborne alert. Air Force officer alerts interceptor squadron. Pilots scramble and run to their F-102 aircraft. F-102, tail number 53-107 taxiing from hangar. Pilots quickly entering their aircraft and being secured in cockpits. F-102s taxiing at high speed.BOMARC missile readied. Civil defense officials issue air raid alert.
Testing of AIM-7 Sparrow III Missile from Naval Air Station in Point Mugu,California. United States Air Force (USAF) Ryan Firebee Q-2C aircraft in flight. American AIM-9 Sidewinder air to air missile fired by United States Navy (USN) F-8D Crusader fighter aircraft stuck Q-2C. It explodes. Parts fall off and hits the water. It disappears below the water surface. United States Navy Grumman QF-9F Cougar drone in flight. United States Air Force AIM-7 Sparrow III air to air Missile fired by United States Air Force F-4B Phantom II fighter aircraft made a miss on the drone. United States Navy Convair RIM-2 Terrier surface to air missiles placed on launchers on USS Coontz (DDG-9). Terrier is launched.
U.S. Army Air Forces home front activities in U.S. during World War 2.. Animation shows air crews undergo an operational training. Air crews getting into U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft. U.S. Army Air Forces AT-11 Kansas plane drop bombs. U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 Airacobra fighter planes strafe targets in water. Officer briefs crews. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bomber plane flies low over ground. Pilot looks through gun sight at target. U.S. Army Air Forces A-20 Havoc bomber in flight.
Film outlines mobilization and various departments and divisions of British response to German blitz air raids in battle of Britain. Film shows scenes of: Anti-aircraft batteries, Royal Air Force aircraft response, Air Raid Wardens, Observer Corps, Decontamination Squads, Auxiliary Fire Service, and First Aid Posts. British forces prepare for German Blitz air raids on British cities in World War II. British naval ships at sea. A large howitzer and guns seen on the ship. Maps show positions of warships and aircraft in Britain. British aircraft on airfield. British police marching. British air raid wardens. Air raid observer looking skyward with binoculars. British fire engine, fire boat and fire men seen. Entrance to air raid shelter. Medical ward set up to treat victims.
U.S. Air Force General Hap Arnold meeting with other allied military chiefs at the Potsdam conference, following the end of World War II, in Europe. General Arnold gives a speech during the 38th Anniversary of air power in the United States. Military band plays during the ceremony. General Henry steps from airplane and shakes hands with some of his Air Force Commanders in the Pacific theater. B-29 Super fortresses bombing Japan.Bombardier seen inside B-29 Super fortress. View of General of the Army, Henry (Hap) Arnold. Aircraft of the Air Force demonstration team, The Thunderbirds, in flight. September 18, 1947, formation of the United States Air Force as a separate service. January, 1950, the funeral of General Arnold at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia. Arnold Engineering Development Center building in Tullahoma, Tennessee. President Harry Truman dedicates the Center. B-47 and B-52 bombers taking off. Various Air Force aircraft seen taking off. Views of the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
U.S. Army Air Service production center number 2, at Romorantin, France during World War I. A tractor pulls a DH-4 plane along a road to a group of hangars. French and American officers of World War 1 in front of a DH-4 plane with an American flag draped over its engine. Women carry French and British flag. Edith Normant presents Captain Osborne with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the French government. A ceremony in front of DH-4 with French and American officials. United States Army Air Service officer ties an American flag to the strut of DH-4 plane. Plane taxis, takes off and in flight over Air service production center no 2 at Romorantin, Loir-et-Cher, France. Pilot and observer get out of DH-4 plane and people walk up to congratulate them. Officer of the production board of the Air Service center number 2 stands in front of a DH-4 plane. French General de L' Espee and Major Robert J Bates Commander of Air Service Production Center stand in front of DH-4 plane. Lieutenant Colonel WC Allen and Major WH Wardwell shake hands. American officer lined up in front of a headquarters of Air Service Production Center no2. Colonel EV Summer, Junior Commander Air Service Production. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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