Life of a U.S. Air Force personnel and his family in Alaska, United States. Air Force family and guests eat supper at a dependent's home at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Small child eats in a high chair. One woman shows her earings to other. Two men look at certificate which had been presented to TSGT Art Foster. Wife of Air Force personnel dusts furniture at a home and talks over a phone.
Film opens showing closeup of a smashed aircraft landing gear at a crash site. A large group of men stand near the burned remains of U.S. Air Force B-52D Stratofortress, 56-0594, of the 22d Bomb Wing, that crashed at 0730 hours, shortly after takeoff from March Air Base in California. An armed airman stands in the foreground. A fire truck is parked near the wreckage. Scene shifts to recovery workers combing through smoldering debris. Medics carry covered remains from the area, on a stretcher, past an Air Force cinematographer filming the scene. Closeup of a medic in white red cross helmet wearing a breathing mask, standing near workers placing charred remains in a plastic bag and tagging it. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain, standing with civilians at the site. View of the plane tail and part of fuselage silhouetted against gray sky. Remains of a farm animal. Airman shoveling ashes over smoldering debris. An aircraft circling over the crash site. A fire truck parked next to wreckage. Camera pans over remains of aircraft tail section. Closeup of landing gear wheels with tires and fire fighters moving hose through through smoldering debris in background. Firefighters at their truck. (Note: the crash site is a plowed farm field at Sunnymead, approximately 2.5 miles SE of March AFB.)
Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, commander in chief, of USAFE (United states Air force in Europe) is seen mingling with Italian officers as Italian fliers stand in formation in front of their de Havilland Vampire jet fighter aircraft on a flight line at Wiesbaden Air Force Base, West Germany, during Exercise Cirrus, an air exercise for the Allied air forces in Central Europe. General Norstad and the officers move to another group of Italian fliers in front of their jet planes. The fliers are in relaxed formation and attentive to the conversations between General Norstad and their commanders.
United States Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. U.S. Air Force Non Commissioned Officers (NCO) seated in chairs. They log film into a log book. Airman enters the room and gives papers to the officer. Another airman enters and takes the film can outside the room. Officer notes in the log book. Army uniform jackets hung in the background.
United States Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force officers work at desks in headquarters building. Officer talks on telephone. Officer writes on a paper. He consults the other officer. Airman delivers a paper to an officer.
United States Air Force 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force officer works at the headquarters building. Officer at desk as he talks on telephone and writes on a paper. He points to a map holding a paper in his hand.
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