Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.
Life of Air Force personnel families at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. Wives of U.S. Air Force personnel exercise in a gymnasium. Women wearing unitards use a rowing machine, do inverted bicycle leg exercises, and lift weights using a barbell and bench press.
American General William D Mitchell (aka Billy Mitchell) at a desk in his office in Middleburg, Virginia. General Mitchell points out the loopholes in air support at Long Island for New York. He urges that America must build up its strength in building more bomber aircraft. General Mitchell says that air power is the prime strength of any nation for directly attacking the enemy's key installations. The General demands the construction of an air base in Alaska.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Air Defense exercises in Southern Europe. United States jet fighter aircraft Sabre Jet and Thunderjet aircraft participate in the exercise. A Republic F-84 thunderjet aircraft stands stationary on an airbase. A pilot seated in the cockpit. The plane taxis. Activities on the air base for preparation of the Air Defense exercises. A fuel tank advances towards the aircraft. Refueling of the aircraft. The pilot seated in the cockpit.
United States jet fighter aircraft F-100 Super Sabre and F-84 Thunderjet aircraft participate in air defense exercises in Southern Europe. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Air Defense exercises. An instructor briefs the pilots in a room. The pilots wear flight gear. Automobiles on the air base. The planes are inspected before the flight. The pilots seated in the cockpit. The pilots lower the aircraft canopies. A man fires a rifle. An officer looks through binoculars. Men seated in the control room. Planes in flight. A plane takes off. Several planes take off. Planes in flight in formation.
The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) 'Hell's Angels' based at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Station Molesworth in England during World War II. A windsock flies with the wind. U.S. Army Air Force airmen work on the engine of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Several B-17s parked at the Airfield. Military jeeps around the aircraft. Two B-17s taxi along. They pass several other parked Flying Fortresses. The aircraft take off.
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