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1962 - Cold War: Swift Strike II Military Exercises. 30Jul-18Aug62.

Reel Number: 250067-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1981,

Country: USA

Location: North Carolina,SOUTH CAROLINA

TC Begins: 13:16:03

TC Ends: 13:26:35

Duration: 00:10:32

1962 - Cold War: Swift Strike II Military Exercises. 30Jul-18Aug62. Cargo parachutes descending w/ packages from planes. Multiple runs of four-engine planes, argo landing near airstrip. Paratroopers descending. 13:18:14 Jeep on skid on runway. 13:18:18 Injured paratrooper on stretcher on tarmac; medics carry off. 13:18:38 Planes overhead & parachutes descending, men landing & running off. 13:19:48 Four-star license plate; General out of Army helicopter shakes hands w/ officer wearing aggressor helmet. walk away w/ photographers; another helicopter arrives & they talk. 13:20:32 Aggressor officer holding large map points as other watch; photographers. Officers of both forces in jeep. 13:21:24 Planes dropping equipment w/ chutes, descending; multiple groupings of three planes. Paratroopers descending. Sky filled. Brief shot of fighter jets across low. 13:23:25 Black 13:24:09 Officers, Generals from Army Helicopter (dark), talking beside highway; aggressor general holds map. Smoking & talk beside jeep. NOTE: Coverage of paradrop of 82nd & 101st Airborne Division personnel and equipment and maneuvers during Operation Swift Strike II. VIP's may include Gen Curtis E. LeMay, Gen Paul DeWitt (USA), Gen Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., Gen Lyman L. Lemnitzer (USA), Adm Robert L. Dennison, Robert S McNamara and Roswell L. Gilpatric.

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