Interior of Convair B-36, a strategic bomber of USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC). Navigator checks the course of the aircraft. Pilot in cockpit of the plane.
A U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel briefs SAC U-2 reconnaissance aircraft aircrews about aerial reconnaissance mission. They synchronize watches. Another officer in front of same map. An aircrew member engaged in flight planning working on a map, with a pencil in hand during Cuban Crisis.
Soviet and U.S. officials including Nikita Khrushchev, Gen. Zhukov, Mikhail Kalinin, and Nikolai Bulganin can be seen. Officials in conversation. U.S. Air Force General Nathan F. Twining with other officers at a news conference. General walking down a reception line composed of Mr. Bulganin, Mr. Malenkov, Mr. Zhukov, Mr. Kalinin, and Mr. Khrushchev. Gathering under Soviet flag.
On Target ' a documentary on 8th Airforce of the United States. A B-52 air-launches an AGM-28 Hound Dog supersonic jet-powered cruise missile which is seen soaring under its own power. A formation of World War II B-24 Liberator bombers flying above clouds. A formation of B-17 bombers in flight.
Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Hermann Goering, extols the capabilities and contributions of the Luftwaffe to German conquests, mentioning Poland, and France. As he speaks, a German Henschel Hs 126 observation plane is shown, followed by shots of a Messerschmitt Me-109 and formations of them flying amongst clouds, A German antiaircraft emplacement on a parapet high above a river. A lone German sentry patroling a beach and a flight of Me-109s flying low over his head. View from nose of a German bomber flying low over water. German Dornier Do-17 bombers penetrating a coastline. Pilots and gunner in bombers. Formation of Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Animation shows British mainland from perspective of a dive bomber heading toward the ground. Sequence finishes with explosion. Throughout the last half of the clip, a male chorus is heard singing the Luftwaffe's unofficial anthem, "Bomben auf Engelland," (Bombs on England) by Norbert Schultze (Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze).
Aerial views from an airplane flying over the city of Jülich, Germany, showing destruction from American 9th Air Force bombings during World War II. Smoke is still rising from some of the wrecked buildings. A cathedral standing amongst the wreckage.
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