Albrook Air Force base of United States in Panama. A United States airman with tattoos on his arms and chest comes, doctor inoculates him and he leaves. Another airman walks over to the doctor. Needle jabbed into airman's arm after wiped with alcohol. Airman winces as doctor inoculates him.
View inside mess tent set up on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany, to support personnel in NATO Exercise Cirrus, 1951. Cooks are seen preparing and cooking food in large trays, and placing some in strainers to be served. Scene shifts to cooks dispensing dinners to some NATO airmen as they pass along in a chow line.
NATO Project Cirrus, Gilze Rijen Air Base, in the Netherlands, 1951. A pair of de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft fly low over the field and make a tactical overhead approach. One is seen landing. Next a Gloster Meteor jet is seen heading toward the camera and passing low overhead. It climbs and makes executes an aerobatic maneuver and then speeds past the camera and lands. As it taxis on the airfield the background is rich in detail of the field and homes in the vicinity. Several Meteor aircraft are seen parked in a cluster on the field. The taxiing aircraft approaches them an parks among them.
During NATO Exercise Cirrus, in 1951, a formation of three C-119 aircraft of the U.S. 443rd Troop Carrier Group are seen high above the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland. They descend and land at the airfield.
A formation of seven de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft are seen above the Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland, during NATO Exercise Cirrus, in 1951. They peel off and commence landing in a tactical trail formation at the airfield. The camera follows the first to land as it passes two C-119 aircraft of the U.S. 443rd Troop Carrier Group on the airfield. Next, one of the C-119s is seen taxiing.
A straight-wing Republic F-84E Thunderjet of the USAF 86th Fighter-Bomber Wing landing at Neubiberg Air Base near Munich, Germany. A USAF C-47 is holding short on the taxiway. Next, a crash truck is seen stationed on the taxiway.Across the field, Two C-47s, a B-17, and a C-54 are parked. Scene shifts to closeup of a tank truck carrying JP-3 fuel, parked next an 86th Wing F-84. An airman sits on the plane's left tip tank. The fuel truck operator and another airman pull two refueling hoses from the truck and carry them to airmen sitting on the aircraft's tip tanks. The aircraft is parked on Marsden Matting aka pierced steel planking. Closeup of the airman on the plane's right wing takes his hose and inserting it into the right tip tank. Views of him filling the tank. Two airmen are behind the fuel truck. One watches the fuel gages. Scene shifts to two airmen mechanics atop the aircraft. They are assembling and installing an avionics component. Closeup of the aircraft's crew chief, TSgt G. Cavert, sitting on the wing , next to a painting on fuselage of the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron logo: a black crow holding a bomb over its head ready to throw it. The names: Col. G. Laven and TSgt G. Calvert are painted above and below the logo, respectively. (This aircraft is F-84E-30-RE Thunderjet number 51-624 flown by the commander of the 86th Fighter Bomber Group, Colonel George Laven Jr. who flies with the 527th Fighter-Bomber Squadron.) Next several of the 86th Wing's aircraft are seen parked, and one airman is seated near an anti-aircraft gun, while another plays catch with someone, unseen.
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