U.S. Air Force Airman salutes. A group of children wave. Children and adults accompanied by Air Force personnel and Boy Scouts of America line up in large numbers along Vandenberg AFB road in California, United States. Helicopter covering the event can be seen. Crowd along the route waves and cheers as President John F. Kennedy's motor convoy drives by. Air Force personnel salute as President Kennedy passes by in his plexiglass bubble-top covered Lincoln limousine. Shows presidential convoy of cars and buses traveling along Vandenberg Air Force Base roads.
United States of America and and Britain test Nuclear Weapons. The Titan II missile undergoes its first test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a shoot from an underground pad. The missile gets destroyed in air with an explosion. The British unveil their Blue Steel, a nuclear air-to-ground bomb designed to fill the gap left by the scrapped skybolt. View of Royal Air Force V bomber taking off.
United States President John F Kennedy visits the United States Air Base in Wiesbaden, West Germany during the Cold War. The presidential Air Force One VC-137 aircraft taxiing before takes off from Wiesbaden Air Base, Germany. Sign of Headquarters 7101st Air Base Wing Wiesbaden Air Base. A car exits the Wiesbaden Air Base and U.S. Army Fliegerhorst Kaserne, Hanau.
View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. (Vietnam War period).
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