Red Cross women with servicemen in Wiesbaden, Germany. A sign reads 'Kassel Air Strip R-12'. A lake behind the Wiesbaden Red Cross club. Servicemen and Red Cross girls in kayaks. RC girls and servicemen leave the kayaks. A mountain in left foreground. RC girls sitting on a bench.
View inside mess tent set up on Wiesbaden Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany, to support personnel in NATO Exercise Cirrus, 1951. Cooks are seen preparing and cooking food in large trays, and placing some in strainers to be served. Scene shifts to cooks dispensing dinners to some NATO airmen as they pass along in a chow line.
Operation Jupiter. Wiesbaden Germany. A ramp wheeled to C-47 aircraft with foreign markings. Italian officers, Lieutenant General Urbani, Chief of Staff Italian Air force, and General Unia, a Wing Commander of Italian Air Force, greeted by Colonel Rich, Chief of Staff, 12th Air Force, and Colonel Roberts, Commanding Officer of Wiesbaden Air Force Base. Italian and American officers review an honor guard and get into a car. Nose of C-47 aircraft. Italian and American personnel stand by the door of plane. The plane taxis away.
Exercise Jupiter, Wiesbaden West Germany, September, 1951. (This was a three-day, French-directed war game involving Allied forces in Europe. Among those on hand to observe the exercise was the SHAPE commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.) In opening scene, an Italian pilot in flight suit, leans into the cockpit of a De Havilland DH-100 Vampire jet plane displaying number 72 on it's nose, at Wiesbaden Air Force Base. A ground crewman connects an auxiliary power unit to the aircraft, as the pilot adjusts his helmet. Closeup of the Italian pilot reaching into the cockpit. A U.S. C-47 transport plane taxis in the background. Two other Italian pilots, in flight gear, appear nearby plus a U.S. Air Force flight line tug. The other pilots stroll around the Vampire jet. Next, the tug is seen moving away as other Italian pilots gather around Vampire jets on the flight line. The tug, carrying several Italian officers, backs up to jet number 72, and hooks up and tows away the auxiliary power unit.
Scenes of the modern buildings and outskirts of the city. Cars passing by and scene of board of Wiesbaden City Limits. Scenes of Golden Dome Church in Wiesbaden.
U.S. airmen greet their families at the Wiesbaden Air Base in West Germany. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) frees 9 United States airmen whose straying airliner was shot down in flames over Armenia. Airmen get off an aircraft at the Wiesbaden Air Base. They greet their families and loved ones. They gets into a bus.
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