Cold war exercise dramatization showing actions by NORAD (North American Air Defense) control room (war room) staff in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and Strategic Air Command (SAC) in missile defense response to enemy attack. A Navy ship's captain reports enemy detected on radar. NORAD pilots run to Royal Canadian interceptor aircraft and take off. NORAD Commander, U.S. Air Force General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy seen in NORAD Command Post. They phone another 4-star general who picks up a red phone to call the White House. SAC bombers are seen in flight. U.S. Air Defense F-102 interceptors are scrambled.
The 100th anniversary celebration of the state of Queensland in Australia. The U.S. aircraft stationed at the Amberly Royal Australian Air Station. People at the Air Base. The display and demonstration at the Amberly Royal Australian Air Station by the British units,Australian Air Force and the United States Air Force aerial task in operation square deal. Spectators watch the demonstration.
A U.S. Air Force C54 aircraft taxis, with outboard engines shut down, to the ramp at Gilze Rijen Air Base in Holland, during NATO Air Forces exercise Project Cirrus. Lieutenant General Lauris Norstad, Commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces Europe, and Commanding general of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe, descends a long ladder to the ramp. He is greeted by A Dutch Air Force General and poses with other NATO Air Forces officers. He is briefed by a NATO officer, and then surrounded by reporters who interview him. Next, he enters a 1950 Ford sedan staff car and is driven away. The next scene shows Norstad in discussions with NATO fliers at a camp in open fields. Closeup of Norstad with two NATO Generals (one from Norway). Broader view of the group showing elements of the camp in the background.
A film 'The squadron officer school' about training of a USAF officer student attending Squadron Officer School at the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, United States. A USAF Lieutenant Colonel and a man seated at a desk talking to each other. The officer praises a report of a Captain. A officer in car stops and enters gate at Air University. USAF officers enter and leave Air University buildings. A large group of USAF officers in auditorium. An officer addresses the group. USAF officer looks at book in Air University library. Officers perform physical exercise. USAF officers and families in chapel during a service. Editor and Publisher of Flying Magazine Gil Robb Wilson speaks to the USAF officers in auditorium. Commander of Air University Lieutenant General Walter E Todd speaks. Dr. M H Sharlemann of the Concordia Theological Seminary addresses group. Football coach of University of Illinois Ray Elliot addresses group. Small group of USAF officers in classroom. USAF officers in auditorium attend lectures and discuss. They perform a skit. View of a missile hangar opening and a CIM-10 BOMARC missile of the United States Air Force being raised into firing position.
Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Tanks advance during a Soviet military operation. A missile mounted on an Army truck. Armored reconnaissance vehicles and armored personnel carriers assume their starting positions. Soviet military exercise: A ground crewman directs an aircraft at an air base. Tanks and equipment loaded into Antonov An-22 Cock and Ilyushin Il-76 Candid strategic air-lifters. Soldiers board transport aircraft. Aircraft take off, the fleet in flight. An officer communicates over the radio from a bunker. He gives orders to fire. Soviet Sukhoi Su-19 Fencers drop bombs. Fire and explosion due to the bombardment. Other weapons and rockets fired. Smoke clouds mushrooming towards the sky. Officers and soldiers watch through binoculars. A task force advances at sea. Senior Soviet officers. Soldiers in tank and on foot advance. Soldiers load shells, take aim and fire tank guns. Soviet helicopters in flight. Anti-tank surface to air missile SA-7 Grail or 9K32 'Strela-2' and infra-red guided surface to air missile SA-9 Gaskin or 9K31 Strela-1 are fired. Tanks hit in a field. A soldier in a tank aims and fires the tank gun. Machine guns fired. A pilot in an aircraft cockpit. Soviet aircraft in a dogfight. Rockets fires. Missiles ready to be fired. An intercontinental ballistic missile fired. Soviet troops in a transport aircraft in flight over mountains. Paratroopers jump out of the aircraft to begin attack from the air. Paratroopers with parachutes descend and land. They advance amidst heavy fire. Cushioned landings of crafts, tanks and other vehicles with parachutes. Tanks advance, missiles fired. Explosions and fire. Soldiers fire machine guns.
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