Film opens showing front of an M117 general purpose bomb with receptacle for fuse. Gloved hand of a munitions handler is then seen screwing fuses in two such bombs. Next, a team of munitions handlers is seen fastening tail assemblies onto bombs. One handler uses a pneumatic power tool to fasten the tail sections. Boxes of fuses are opened and some fuses taken out. Fused bombs are laid out with tags on their fuses. An airman installs a tagged fuse into a bomb.
Board reads 'Tyndall Norad Control Center 678th Air Defense GP' in Florida. View of a radar antenna at the Aerospace Defense Command base. A U.S. Air Force F-106 Delta Dart aircraft takes off from runway. Pilot coordinates with the officials in control room through communication system. Pilot seated in cockpit of the aircraft. Woman Air Force controller speaks over mouthpiece and operates controls in the control room.
U.S. Congressmen and high ranking officers at Wiesbaden Air Base in Germany. Four stars on a board in front of a United States Air Force Car. A plane taxis. U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur William Radford and Mrs. W. Radford enroute to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers conference in Paris. They come out of the plane. They are greeted by Lieutenant General William H. Tunner, Commander United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE), and his staff. They leave in a staff car. Planes stationed in the background.
Part of testing aircraft for Stategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. RATO (rocket assisted take-off) of United States Air Force C-47F airplane from rough terrain at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. Three different views of the takeoff.
Testing of aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. RATO (rocket assisted take-off) of a United States Air Force C-119C airplane from rough terrain at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. Three different camera views of the takeoff.
Testing aircraft for Strategic Air Command Escape and Evasion mission. RATO (rocket assisted take-off) of United States Air Force XC-123 airplane from rough terrain at Eglin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida. Three different camera views.
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