C-130A cargo airplanes of the United States Air Force transport road construction equipment during Andes Airlift, from Chiloya to Bella Vista village, in Peru. A Peruvian operator of a Cat machine shows an Air Force crewman how to operate the controls of the Cat. He backs it inside a C-130A cargo plane as the crewman stands on it. A fuel truck arrives near the aircraft.
C-130A cargo airplanes of the United States Air Force transport road construction equipment during Andes Airlift, from Chiloya to Bella Vista village, in Peru. Bridge girders, road graders and dump truck lined near runway. A C130-A lands and taxis on airstrip. A Peruvian operator inside the air traffic control room speaks on microphone.
Aviator Douglas Corrigan at Floyd Bennett Air Field in Brooklyn, New York completes his transcontinental flight from Floyd Bennett Air Field to Ireland. Motorcade of Corrigan arrives as crowd watches. He stands on a stage and gets honored. At Camp Smith New York he shakes hand with U.S. Military officers and reviews as contingents of New York's Fighting Irish Regiment march. His plane which flew him during the historic flight arrives back to New York in a ship. A carrier drags the plane out of the dock.
Air speed meter indicator of BT-13 aircraft of United States shows the increase and decrease in speed of the aircraft. Needle of air speed indicator moves clock wise and anti-clock wise to indicate increase and decrease of speed respectively.
U.S. Air Force staff car driving along a road at the Minuteman Missile complex of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, near Great Falls, Montana. In the back seat are Captain Kenneth Atkins, a combat crew commander and his deputy, Lieutenant Jim Highland. View of desolate landscape from the passing car. The car stops at a fenced area where guards confirm their identifications. Inside a building the men are issued .38 caliber revolvers and ammunition. An authentication code is given over the phone by the guard, who then promptly burns a stub of paper on which it is written. The combat crew enters the complex through an alarmed door and takes an elevator down to the lower level. View up the shaft of the elevator descending. They exit and stand as the silo blast door is opened from within, and then enter the vault-like control room. Colonel Rex Dowtin, Commander of the 341st Wing, listens as one of his combat crews gives him their certification briefing. Combat crew members Atkins and Highland are seen in their silo control capsule, where they look over the latest message traffic. Views of SAC (Strategic Air Command) message recording systems and internal capsule controls. A double padlocked red box containing secret missile launch codes. Pre-recorded voice reporting the status of all missiles under the crews control. Sound of voice reporting on various selected channels. Views outside the silo, with some snow on the ground. View of a missile nose. Panning views of the capsule, showing the crew member bunks, among other things.
United states 8th Air Force attacks roadways, canals, bridges in Germany during the Second World War. A bomb strikes a train causing large fire. German ME-109 explodes in mid air and another enemy aircraft spins off after one of its wings is shot at.
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