Cargo loading at Dover Air Force Base (AFB) in Delaware,United States. Commander of the 1607th Air Transport wing, Colonel Francis G Gideon seated at office. He speaks on the role of Dover AFB. Aerial view of the Dover AFB. Aircraft parked at the base. Cargo truck moves towards aircraft. Trailer loaded with cargo moves on base. Crewmen place cargo cartons on conveyor belts from trailer and load United States Air Force C-124 Globemaster II cargo aircraft. Pilot gets into cockpit. Aircraft taxis and takes off from base. Men operate at control. Crewmen check the cargo cartons. Transport truck drives through street.
Meeting of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament (United Nations) on January 27, 1966, at the Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Seen among others are: William C. Foster, U.S. representative,and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Soviet chief negotiator, S.K.Tsarapkin; and British representative, Lord Chalfont (Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont). Views of the meeting starting with Mr. Tsarapkin as the Chair. Camera pans interior of the Palace of Nations. View of the outside of the building. Press briefing with closeup of Mr. Tsarapkin as he voices the USSR support for discussion of draft treaties to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. Closeups of U.S. delegate William Forster standing by a lake as narrator speaks of the hope for progress. Next scene is three years later: shows Joan Baez singing her song "Last night I had the strangest dream," at a Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam rally near the Washington Monument, in Washington, DC, on November 15, 1969. This gathering of hundreds of thousands of antiwar citizens, in peaceful protest, was organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. View of peaceful crowd of demonstrators gathered on the Washington Monument Grounds, listening to Baez sing. Next scenes show views of various boy and girls all over the world. Children of many races and nationalities are seen including Indian, Middle eastern, African, Asian, European, and American children. Some of the children are smiling or playing. Some are standing near a radar or radio control tower. One boy is standing behind barbed wire. Clip ends with scene inside a United States nuclear missile silo (possibly Minuteman), with a team of two Air Force personnel on duty, always at the ready to launch missiles if required. Closeup view of a 24 hour clock is seen ticking, and one of the personnel in the silo watches it closely. A key hangs from the clock. Another airman is seated at a desk in the missile silo.
United States Air Force ( USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A woman seated on the ground with her child. Refugees walk along a road. The refugees with their belongings. Aircraft in the background. An airman uses a radio in a jeep and talks with several Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops.
USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) make preparation for operations in the United States during the Vietnam War. General Bruce K. Holloway, Commander-in-Chief of the SAC, comes out from a building of 'Young Tiger Operations' and gets into a car for his annual visit. The General inspects the equipment. Tankers and fuel mechanized tank drive on a road. An officer enters into the van, and operates the remote control and monitoring instruments. Recovery team works on an aircraft. USAF aircraft take off. The pilot and copilot in the cockpit, operate the control panel. Views of the aircraft in flight, enroute to Vietnam.
From a film about aerospace medical evacuation and first aid operations for injured soldiers during the Vietnam War. U.S. Air Force C-141 aircraft taxis along an airport and takes off as it carries soldiers wounded during Vietnam War to their homes. A grounds man signals and aircraft takes off. Doctors examine wounded soldiers aboard the aircraft. A nurse talks to a patient. She administers a injection to a soldier. A soldier smokes a cigarette as he lies in his bed. Soldiers eat food and sit in their beds.
A radar antenna turning inside an early warning system radar's geodesic spherical cover. Information from early warning system radars being shown on the North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters displays, in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. A NORAD radar site. An early warning radar site on an off-shore platform, A U.S. Air Force EC-121 Lockheed Constellation Warning Star aircraft in flight. A U.S. Navy ship equipped with early warning radar. View of NORAD Headquarters Command Center.
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