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U.S. military activities to assure safe landing of aircraft in landing-zones

U.S. military training film excerpt about planning landing zones. Detachment Commander in meeting with officials. He wraps the map and men exit from the hut located in forest. A coded message carrying specifications required by Special Forces for air operations is written on a page. Map of landing-zone (LZ) is created on ground with various marks. Detachment Commander along with soldiers surrounds the map. Detachment Commander explains the landing operations to be carried out. Red chips are used to mark the stations on runway. Detachment Commander uses a stick to indicate these. RCL (Reception Committee Leader) is shown with blue chips. A soldier submits a document to an officer. Two other soldiers come to him. The officer gives the document. Detachment Commander receives a document brought by a soldier. Soldiers move on LZ and check the security. Men move on LZ. An aircraft approaches LZ. Two enemy soldiers see the air craft. One of them talks on phone. In an enemy base a soldier looks at a map. Another soldier notes down on a pad. Soldier at LZ see his watch. RCL burns a marker light lasting 4 minutes to signal the plane. The aircraft lands. Animation shows the pathway of landing taken by the aircraft on LZ. RCL man moving on runway signals approaching aircraft to parking area. Soldiers move to the parked aircraft. A signal is blown off as the aircraft takes off.

Date: 1969
Duration: 8 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023967
Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter, greeted by Mrs Carpenter and his children upon return to Cape Canaveral, Florida

Mrs. Carpenter and his children greet U.S. Astronaut, Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter upon arrival at Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, Florida, after his Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Astronaut Carpenter speaks to crowd. C-121 aircraft of Military Air Transport Service, in the background. Men take pictures of Commander Carpenter. Astronaut Carpenter gets into motorcar with his wife.

Date: 1962, May 27
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024580
Astronauts Gus Grissom and Scott Carpenter, say farewell to friends and board MATS C-121 aircraft to depart Patrick AFB

Military Air Transport Service C-121G airplane on parking ramp at Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Astronaut Gus Grissom talks to friends. Astronaut Scott Carpenter talks to friends. One gives Carpenter a box, that he carries, as he and Grissom and others board the airplane. Photographer takes photos of astronauts.

Date: 1962, May
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024604
Native inhabitants of Okinawa Island, Japan

Native people of Okinawa. Japanese civilians walk on road. An elderly Okinawan woman on the street. An Okinawan man carrying a pole. A young woman and elderly woman in front of a watch shop. A Japanese woman in kimono crosses the road. Smiling Japanese men and women. Okinawan farmer tending pineapple plants. American Air Force non-commissioned officers at a bank window in a bank. Car drives past "Italian Food House Restaurant." An Okinawan farmer works on a farm. A Shinto shrine in Okinawa. Two Japanese men fix a boat. Truck at a mining site. Public union demonstrators demonstrate against United States air bases carrying red flags with Japanese writing.

Date: 1972
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025529
Women train as flight nurses in United States

Women train as flight nurses. Buildings at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. Guard house entrance. A car comes by. Military Police salutes. Students, including nurses of the Army and Navy, file into lecture room. An African American woman is among the group of nurses in training. An officer before a chart. An officer lectures on air and water movements. Another officer explains on water movements on a chart. Girls listen and make notes. An officer lectures on various pressures illustrating his talk on blackboard. A woman officer explains inter-personal relations. Students, some in Naval uniforms, whereas some in Army uniforms ask questions.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025614
Retired Officers' Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the 1929 record endurance flight of the Fokker C-2 Question Mark.

Film opens showing a display case in the Bolling Air Force Base Officer's Club, containing a model of the Atlantic-Fokker C-2A aircraft flown by pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps, in January, 1929 when they set an endurance record of more than 150 hours sustained flight. Below it is a Wright J-5 Whirlwind R-790 engine that powered the flight. Next a large poster is shown commemorating the 35th anniversary of the feat (1929 to 1964). It contains photos of highlights from that event. Next, the retired officers pass the display of model and engine as they descend stairs and enter dining room. Most are in civilian clothes. But several attendees are active duty officers in uniform. Major Sidney Kubesch, pilot on record-breaking B-58 flight from Tokyo-to-London, pauses to stand and look at the display case. General Nathan Twining; General Ira Eaker seen briefly at the display case. At end of clip, General Carl Spaatz stands alone, looking at the display.

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027443