Views of Chicago during Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. A U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifter takes off from O'Hare International Airport. The plane in fight. Sign: "O'Hare Terminal" on parkway or highway. A car being driven away. Another plane takes off. View of a street in Chicago. Lake in the foreground and buildings of Chicago skyline in the background. Car parked on road.
U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at St. Louis, Missouri. It was test flight #155557 MAC 2833. The F-4J aircraft taxis for take off, lifts off and climbs steeply. Pilot and co-pilot eject. (Both survived: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.) Plane moves flatly through air in vertical position. It loses all speed. Aircraft falls flatly, impacts runway and explodes into a huge fireball. Black smoke billows up from impact area. Plane continues to burn. F-4J ablaze. Crash crew makes way to fire. Ambulance on ground. Pilot Pilcher and Radar Observer Begay meet-up together with other personnel on the airfield and observe the blazing aircraft from which they had ejected. They walk around a military station wagon. The two crew members examine ejection seat on runway. Ejection seat resting on runway. Two pilots get into a station wagon with other civilian personnel. Collapsed chute laying on grass. View of ejection seat. Blown canopy, other debris lying about runway in the background. F-4J still ablaze. Fire engine enters and moves down a runway. Firemen wade knee-deep through foam while fighting fire. Heavy smoke rises from wreckage. Crashed F-4J, heavy foam in the foreground. Fireman direct more foam into opening of F-4J while smoke is pouring out.
Occasion is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. 6th Fleet. U.S. Navy Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) is seen with U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William I. Martin, Commander,U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet, and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Edward C. Outlaw, Commander Fleet Air Mediterranean ( COMFLTAIRMED). They are conversing on the bridge of the USS Independence (CVA-62) in the Mediterranean Sea. Outlaw smokes a pipe. McCain is holding a cigar. Martin's back is to the camera early in the sequence. McCain and Martin are doing most of the talking as Outlaw listens. At TC:01:13, camera turns toward Admiral Martin, who soon puffs on a cigar he had been holding. Sequence ends with closeups of Admiral McCain speaking.
Soviet heavy interceptors Tu-128 and Su-15 interceptors from "PVO Strani" (Air Defense Force) in flight formation.
Afghan Army units parade in Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan army jeep passes on a road during the parade of the Afghan Army units at Kabul. Several people on the side of the road. Flags along the side of the road. Few army jeeps moving with army personnel. Flags on each jeep. A number of Afghan officials, guests, diplomatic corps and military attaches seated on the reviewing stand. Two SA-2 Guidelines, the Soviet designed surface-to-air missiles on transporters move along the road during the parade. A few missile containers on transporters moving on the road. A few BTR-40 armored personnel carriers with soldiers pass in the parade. BRDM-2s, armored patrol cars follow the BTR-40s. A few BTR-60s, eight-wheeled armored personnel carriers with soldiers moving on the road. A few BTR-152s, non-amphibious armored personnel carriers passing along the road with soldiers on it during the parade. Soldiers on T-54 tanks pass during the parade. A vehicle parked in front of a building. A few men outside the building. King Mohammed Zahir Shah emerges out of the building. The King and his wife Humaira Begum gets into the vehicle and the vehicle moves with other vehicles escorting. The King salutes to the officials standing along the road.
Afghan Army units parade in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan Army armored vehicles passing along a road during the Afghan Army parade in Kabul. Three SA-2 Guidelines, the Soviet designed surface-to-air missiles, on transporters moving along the road. People lined on the side of the road. A few missile containers on transporters move on the road. T-54 tanks with soldiers on it moving along the road during the parade. '4-410' written on a tank. The Army band playing instruments march following the tank. View of men and children watching the parade.
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