Film opens with views of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar installation at Thule, Greenland. View of two airmen walking underneath one of the huge antennas. Scene shifts to the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) Command Post at Offutt Air Force Base, in Nebraska, where data from the BMEWS system is displayed on its monitors. The SAC Senior Controller, a Colonel, is seen on the "gray phone," via which he can communicate directly with various SAC entities. More views of BMEWS radar facilities. Back at the SAC Command Post, the camera focuses on the Operations Officer Controller, a Major, occupying number 4 controller position. He is seen talking on the gray phone. He presses a button labeled "Pease" (for Pease Air Force Force Base). View of his assistant (A master Sergeant). Next a flight of F-105 Thunderchief aircraft are seen closeup in formation with a SAC KC-135 tanker, from which one is receiving inflight refueling. View further away of the four F-105s and their tanker. Back at the Command Post, a Captain and a master Sergeant are keeping track of logistics affecting SAC worldwide. View of ordnance being transported on a SAC flightline. An officer and NCO on phones, and airmen on duty at switchboards of the SAC worldwide communications network encompassing ground lines of telephone, teletype, plus low frequency, high frequency, and ultra high frequency radio links. Switch board operator plugging in lines on the board. Camera pans over the controllers' positions at the command post. The Senior Controller (Colonel) asks the Operations Officer Controller (Major) to do a maintenance test of the primary alert system, whereupon, the Major lifts the red phone, and announces a test of all stations. Aerial view of SAC B-52 bombers parked on hardstands at an alert facility. Inside the alert area, SAC crew members are seen in their billets, where they stand 15 minute ground alert. One is playing a guitar, while the other is reading a manual. A partially open Minuteman missile silo, and a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic missile (ICBM) silo opening with its missile being raised. A missile control crew inside the complex. More views of the SAC command and control center, at Offutt Air Force Base.
U.S. Air Force 50th Anniversary being celebrated in Washington D.C., United States. The spectators crowd at the Andrews Air Force Base for watch the air show. The aircraft parked at the base. The spectators look at the aircraft. The spectators watch the Bendix Trophy race. USAF (United States Air Force) F-102 Delta Dagger in flight. The spectators look at the aircraft in flight. An officer looks through a binocular. F-102 lands at the base. The spectators in the foreground. F-102 taxis and a parachute opens. A dignitary shakes hand with the Captain Kenneth Chandler of F-102 and gives him the Bendix Trophy. A jet takes off. The jet in flight. The spectators watch the jet in flight. A Vintage Bleriot 1909 aircraft hovers in air. A Curtiss Pusher 1910 and Bleriot in flight. The aircraft in flight in formation. The spectators look at the aircraft flying.
Bombing raids by Allied bombers in Philippines, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Bomb explosion at target buildings and Japanese military bases and trenches. Smoke from a Japanese base exploded by bombs. Japanese fighter planes at an air base. The planes get destroyed when the Allied bombers raid the air base. Wrecked barracks of Japanese military at their base exploded and burnt by bomber raids. General Douglas MacArthur and other Allied Military Generals walk on streets of Philippines after its liberation from the Imperial Japanese forces.
View of NCOs standing outside Base theatre and entering the theatre. Lieutenant General Wilson, Major General Charles R. Bond Jr., Deputy Commander 7th Air Force/13th Air Force and others arrive by staff car and walk toward theatre. Lieutenant General Wilson and others speak on mike. View of NCOs seated listen to them
Removal of air sampling equipment from an aircraft at Enewetak atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in the Pacific Ocean on day of Able shot atomic test on Bikini Islands during Operation Crossroads. A man standing near a trailer. United States Army Air Force DB-17P Flying Fortress drone controllers aircraft parked at an air base. The trailer under the aircraft. Air sampling devices and camera equipment are unloaded from the aircraft. Jeeps parked at the air base. Men working. Other airplanes parked at the air base. Men carrying a crate.
Missions by 463rd Air Division in support of humanitarian and combat operations in South East Asia. United States Army Rangers talk to C-130 Hercules crew at Kontum in Vietnam. ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) troops sit next to C-130 Hercules aircraft. The U.S. Rangers and ARVN troops board C-130 Hercules. ARVN troops stand with rifles in hand. (Vietnam War period).
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