Summary

AIR FORCE NOW ROTC FILMS

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Title: AIR FORCE NOW ROTC FILMS
File Number: PYN-18 Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Educational
Year: 1980s
Subjects: Aerials, military, aviation, aircraft, search and rescue, WWII, elections, voting, leukemia, disease
Description: 14:01:24:24 - 14:56:19:23 Sound Color 1941, 1969, 1980s Military preparedness in Hawaii. 1941 Pearl Harbor footage. Ad for importance of voting. Pilot overcomes trials, problems of lukemia. Elendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. Vintage aircraft, airplanes, used to contrast using, learning new technologies w Air Force. Alaska airbase intercepts, photographs Russian aircraft, Tupolev Russian bomber, newsreel footage (B W) new Air Force summer uniforms, European Distribution system using the C-23 cargo aircraft, Ed McMahon speaks on Air Force suggestion program, Arctic Survival training, Eglin Air Force Base civil engineers train on runway repair, Airman First Class John L. Levitow displays his Medal of Honor, tells story with archival, modern footage & illustrations. 14:01::24:24 - 14:07:33:14 Sound Color 1941, 1980s "NEVER AGAIN" title w VO of FDR "Today, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in imfamy..." radio address attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Fire, smoke of bombed, burning battleships in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Black smoke pouring across water, wreckage. Sailors removing dead, injured w stretchers. USS Arizona covered in smoke. American flag standing, flying in rubble, destruction. Interviews with survivors & witnesses coupled w more footage of smoke, fires. Woman talks about being prepared. Hawaiian National Guard, 326 Air Division at Wheeler Air Force Base, pair of F-15 "Eagle" jets taking off w red sky BG. Silhouette of crewmen, technicians wiping down airplane. GCI Control room, people, air traffic controlers, seated in front of radar screens, talking on telephones, identification of all air craft. F-15 takeoff, LA POV in cockpit of pilot flying F-15. F-15 in flight. 14:07:37:04 - 14:08:00:20 Sound Color 1980s Ad for voting. JFK (audio only) speech, "Ask not what your country..." underscores man exiting voting booth. (elections) 14:08:14:09 - 14:14:32:14 Sound Color 1980s "Against the Odds: The Tom Peter Story." VS of Tom Peter, US Air Force pilot, w doctor in hospital. Technician drawing blood from Tom's left arm. Tom leaving hospital, diagnosed w leukemia. Interviews with Tom, his family, and others regarding the disease. Still of young girl holding giant stuffed monkey. AV of Minneapolis, Minnesota. VS fall leaves on trees. EXT of 9th Air Refueling Squadron building. March Air Force Base, Tanker Town, USA sign. Mission briefing, December 1987. Cockpit of Air Force KC-10 Extender refueling airplane taking off. Man & woman tossing football with son in fenced backyard. Group of F-15s flying in formation, mid-air refueling. Night landing of refueling airplane KC-10 Extender. Newspaper stills of pilot in cockpit, hugging family. Night landing of refueling airplane KC-10 Extender, signalman waving airplane in, VS Tom Peter, US Air Force pilot, exiting airplane, greeting commander, hugging family, seated in cockpit of aircraft. 14:15:11:20 - 14:19:33:01 Sound Color 1980s ROCC Status, scroll of stats on computer screen, radar sweep, digital display of target height (times 100 feet), EXT of domed radar building, black, turning radar. VS Alaska, mountains, snow & "...only forty miles from the Soviet Union." VS remote location radar, snow on parts, domed building. Radar modernization program: "Seek Igloo" fully replaces manual operation by computerized self-diaignostic radar system. Crates on truck marked "Seek Igloo." Man in hard hat driving snowcat. Radar dome at Elendorf Air Force Base. VS of base, overview, close on domes. "Seek Igloo" to replace 1950s radar w solid state radar: FPS-117. Radar turning, seeking. Out of focus flatbed truck moving dome. Domes on top of snow covered mound. 14:19:36:25 - 14:23:53:05 Sound Color 1980s VS vintage aircraft parked on tarmack. Moonlight Seranade painted on side of P-61 "Black Widow" nightfighter aircraft, Bell P-39 "Airacobra", Curtiss P-36 "Hawk", more Moonlight Seranade P-61 frontal. More silver Bell P-39 "Airacobra", very brief Curtiss P-40 "Warhawk" with nose art. VS quick cuts, new applied Air Force technologies: microchip, solid state technology, aircraft design, retrieving computer tapes, laser alinement, tracking systems tracking smart bombs. VS problem solving: aircraft design, lab work, female calculating on blackboard, computer design, modeling, working at drafting table. Airmen boarding aircraft, taxiing on runway, taking off. 14:24:02:10 - 14:29:07:09 Sound Color 1985 April, 1985 King Salmon Alaska. Airman using telephone, talks with young son. Airman leaving wife, son at door going out into snow. Russian threat. Control room, woman on telephone, intercom announcingment. Controller authorizes "scramble" Hanger opens slowly to reveal F-15 "Eagle". VS Pilots cliping , zipping flightsuits, sliding down pole, SLO MO rush to F-15 jets. Out of hangar, inside cockpit. F-15s in flight. Control room support for jets. Female Air Force controller relays target information. More F-15s in flight. Good over pass of one F-15 over another POV from cockpit. VS stills taken from aircraft of Tupolev Russian bomber aircraft in flight. VS newscasters reporting on Soviet bombers near Alaska. Pair F-15s in flight. Boy playing w F-15 model near window. Son greets father, mother in doorway, holding airplane model. 14:29:21:24 - 14:29:45:28 Sound Color 1985 VS C-23 "Sherpa" in flight. Eielson Alaska Air Force Base survival training, setting up camp, skinning a rabbit. 14:30:19:16 - 14:31:29:27 Sound B W 1930s-40s Military fashion (great). Department of the Air Force Logo. Newsreel footage. New summer uniforms. Two soldiers dressed in bush jackets, shorts, summer uniform. Air Force models, short sleeved top w shorts, bush jacket w shorts, bush jacket w long pants. 14:31:51:15 - 14:36:08:29 Sound Color 1980s C-23 "Sherpa" taxiing on runway, liftoff. Lt. Col. Robert Spivey speaks of Military Airlift Squadron, Germany. European Distribution system: Stacking turning, taxiing, take off, in flight. MAC aircraft, C-23C pilot Roger Iam speaks. VS C-23 "Sherpa" in flight, VS loading C-23, take off. C-23A maintenance in hangar, in flight landing. Flight briefing. More C-23 "Sherpa" in flight over patchwork farm fields. 14:36:12:05 - 14:36:50:11 Sound Color Ed McMahon speaks about the Air Force suggestion program, filling out form 1000. VS testimonies from US Air Force men & women w checks paid for ideas to help save the AF money. 14:36:58:02 - 14:44:15:07 Sound Color 1980s Arctic Survival: Artic landscape. Female Captain flight surgeon talking about her forced landing in mountains. Snowcat w headlights on moving toward camera through snow in woods. Soldiers walking through snow covered forest, under tarp on poles, instruction on starting fire, packing snow in water bag, building shelter, time-lapse on construction of shelter by instructor. Instruction on where to set a snare for a rabbit, dead rabbit hanging upside down, skinning rabbit, peeling skin off, kidney into stew pot. Helicopter directions for pick up. AV of area from chopper. Snowcat moving away from camera in snow in woods. Female captain talks about losing the pilot, who was her fiance, in the crash. 14:44:22:26 - 14:44:57:16 Sound Color 1980s Air Force Now: Coming Attractions: B1-B "Lancer" landing at Air Force base in Texas. Covered flatbed truck wading through water, the 501st Tactical Missile Wing. WWII color footage Project Warrior: Soldier pulling on camouflage, airplane in flight, under artillery attack, B-24 "Liberator" landing. Good more B1-B "Lancer" in flight from above. 14:45:20:19 - 14:51:09:15 Sound Color 1980s VS, quick cuts of runways, modern airplanes, jets, landing, taking off, helicopter,jet w parachute dceployed, Eglin Air Force Base, in N. W. Florida. Air Force civil engineers training at field 4. AV housing. Smoke canister thrown from armored vehicle, soldiers walking into smoke. Soldiers in gas masks running, front & rear POV. Great Slo Mo ground explosion (750 b bomb simulations)in open field, several angles. Tech Sgt. Bill Munkin talks about making the damage to repair for practice. Damage assessment dispatched to runway. Soldiers walking filed. VS of assessment team working, mapping damage. VS repair team: trucks, heavy equipment moved into area, bulldozer, leveling area, filling in dirt, soldiers lay slats on ground, connect together. Steamroller, more slats. Two machine pulling connected flat over area w soldiers standing on flat. VS Heavy equipment leaving area, soldiers talking on walkie talkie. Repaired runway. 14:51:20:20 - 14:56:19:23 Sound Color 1980s "Project Warrior" Airman First Class John L. Levitow displays his Medal of Honor (For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty) REENACTMENT of the mission. AC-47 "Gooneybird" taking off at Bien Hoa air base, February 24, 1969. Preparing Mark 24 flares for ejection. Mark 24 flares in air, AV of ground taken w illumination from Mark 24 flare. AC-47 in night flight firing machine gun. Great machine guns firing, "mini guns" (3000 round per minute), into night sky. Drawings, stills illustrating story: AC-47 hit by shell, top of right wing, all crew injured, wounded on floor of airplane, trying to save injured gunner, Mark-24 flare near ammo cans, Levitow tries to pick up, grabs w body, throws flare out door, flare ignites. AC-47 taxiing on runway (sustained 3,500 holes in the fuselage). Medal of Honor w case open, close case.
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