Safe use of nuclear weapons by the United States Air Force. A Sergeant (E4) technician works on a nuclear bomb as a Technical Sergeant (E6) supervisor looks on. A Quality Assurance Evaluator takes notes. The technician reacts angrily after dropping a T304C Continuity Tester and his supervisor corrects him. The technician is then questioned by a doctor to ensure his reliability for a nuclear program. Men around an aircraft as a trailer carries a nuclear bomb near the aircraft. The bomb being attached under the fuselage of the plane. Men work in groups using the two men concept to assure that no individual is ever in a position to arm, launch, or detonate a nuclear weapon.
United States Pathfinders paratroopers of 9th Air Force Troop Carrier Command work on their Eureka Beacons and Rebecca Transmitters at North Witham RAF Station,Grantham, England during World War 2. Their actions are monitored by Capt Neal McRoberts, Commanding Officer, Company F, 2d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. He reviews the soldiers. They unload full packs and place them on the ground. Troops unpack and set up equipment. Signal blinkers and power packs being set up. Men work on the power packs as the signal blinker placed on a tripod stand blinks. .
American Troop Carrier crews gather for a briefing on August 14, 1944, the day before the Operation Dragoon invasion of Southern France, in World War 2. The captions then refer to their return to the United Kingdom later that month, and to the United States in October 1944. The air crews are seen assembled outdoors at an airfield in Italy. The weather is hot and some of them are shirtless. Some airmen are seen wearing Khaki shorts or singlets. Views of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, New York City skyline, taken when some aircrew members returned to the United States in October 1944.
Aftermath of an accident on July 20, 1944, when two U.S. Army Air Forces P-51C Mustang fighter planes,flying low in close formation, struck a palm tree and collided over the 2800 and 2900 blocks of Post Street, in between Willow Branch and Cherry Streets. The crash caused a three-alarm fire involving twelve houses, three apartments, and three garage apartments. Both pilots, one a Lee High School Graduate, died in the crash. The only other fatality was a person killed by an airplane engine that crashed into his residence. (Reportedly, the aircraft were buzzing the home where parents of one of the pilots lived, in the 2700 block of Post Street.) Firefighters extinguishing the fire. Smoking houses. Debris lying in the area. People gathered around the houses. A damaged house. A wrecked car. (World War II period).
Pillboxes being bombed in Germany a month after the end of World War II, in Europe. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop demolition bombs and napalm incendiary bombs on hardened German hilltop fortifications. Explosions, fire, and smoke rise from the bombed areas.
Allied landings in Anzio, Italy during World War II. Paratroopers aboard an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry) underway in the Mediterranean Sea as they prepare to leave for Anzio. A soldier aboard a craft reads a comics. An Allied invasion convoy underway. Partially sunken minesweeper USS Portent. Explosions occur at sea and water splashes due to German air attack during the landings. Allied landing crafts head towards a beach.
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