General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects fighter and bomber bases of U.S. 9th Army air Force (AAF) in European Theater during World War II. U.S. 9th Army Air Force personnel stand at the air base. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), reviews troops with other officers. Several personnel look outside from window and men construct wall as Eisenhower inspects the air base. Eisenhower inspects a bomber plane. He is in cockpit with pilot. He shakes hand with an air force personnel. Bombs loaded on bombers seen. Fighter and bomber planes taxis on airstrip. Eisenhower and other officer review the planes. Planes take off. Groups of planes in formation flight.
Interior of a hangar number 8 at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Air Force mechanics perform general maintenance work on Convair B-36 aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 6th Bomb Wing, home-based at Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico. The mechanics pull an auxiliary heater up on to the wing and start it.
U.S. Air Force X-15A rocket powered aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. A X-15A aircraft backs up at the air base. The aircraft being positioned for an engine test. A pilot in the cockpit. A man closes the canopy. Other crew members in flight gear at the air base. Tail section of the X-15A aircraft emits fiery flare.
Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha in Sarpy County, Nebraska. Radars and systems at Air Force Base. Office at three story below ground level. SAC (Strategic Air Command) officers cover cartons with a sheet. Ammunition stored. Looking Glass Air Borne Command Force center. Telephone, communication equipment and control systems used to keep track of things. SAC officers run, they get on trucks and go to air craft. Aircraft takes off. Pilot in plane. Rocket takes off. SAC headquarter.
A field grade U.S. Air Force officer at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, is seated in an office. Behind him on the wall is a large map of the Atlantic ocean with concentric rings on it, centered at Bermuda. He receives a paper report and makes a phone call. An airman at a communications center receives teletype messages and leaves to deliver them. Scene shifts to a flight engineer sitting at his panel aboard a WB-29A aircraft of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters). The WB-29 is experiencing significant turbulence. An officer briefing a group of Air Force officers and airmen. View of 53rd Squadron area on ramp at Kindley Air Force Base. An officer briefing aircrews. A synoptic chart is mounted on front of his podium. A map of the entire Atlantic ocean and environs covers a wall behind him. To his left is a map of the South Atlantic with Bermuda highlighted at the top. a triangular air route is depicted on it. It is labeled: "Gull Hotel."
U.S. Air Force aircrews prepare for NEAC (Northeast Air Command) Rocket Meet show at Thule Air Base, Greenland. Airmen load 2.75 rockets into F-89D Scorpion wingtip firing pod. Pilot and crew members don helmets and board the aircraft. Aircraft F-89D Scorpion in flight. Aircraft lands at Thule Air Base.
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