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1952 - 1953, Cold War, Greenland: SAC Base Construction & Completion
Ironworkers throwing & catching rivets & placing; trusses raised by cranes & guided. Hanger doors added, moved
06:23:08 Secretary of Air Force Thomas K. Finletter & inspection party; MCUs. Aerial view over partially completed barracks. Barrack construction & CU stuffing floors w/ insulation & covered; installation of Clements panels & joints sealed w/ mastic. MCU attaching panels w/ lag screws.
06:24:09 Exteriors & interiors w/ bunks. Large mess hall. Serving chow line & workers seated & eating at tables. Men in recreation room shooting pool; at church services.
06:25:02 Concrete construction; welding tanks; completing buildings & framework construction.
06:25:29 01Oct51 (?) General Curtis LeMay, visits, briefed by Colonel Clarence Renshaw.
06:25:48 Top coat of asphalt laid on airstrip & control tower under construction. Laying electrical cables & landing lights placed.
06:26:12 LS across Thule harbor; aerial over mountains; ice covering bay; snow & sleet blowing across Quonset & Atwell Huts & cranes
06:26:48 Work crews leaving, boarding planes & taxiing, takeoff. Aircraft overhead.
06:27:15 1952. Construction of hangers; steelworkers placing framework & steel plates. Welding.
06:27:41 Interior of hanger w/ plane; exterior LS fighter jets on line &F-94 (?) taking off l. to r. Four overhead.
06:28:08 Four-engine MATs airlcraft taking off r. to l. past, overhead.
06:28:19 SOF Sgt. James Mansfield at desk summarizes: “...great example of what this country can do when the chips are down.”
06:28:37 Major General Samuel D. Sturges, Jr. Chief of Army Engineers speaks to camera: “...is typical of the construction tasks being performed thruout the world today by the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army & the construction industry of the United States. In this day & age this country must be prepared immediately to defend itself. Fortunately we have a unique arrangement in our system whereby the civil works of the country are constructed in every state in the union by an organization in being known as the Civil Works of the Corps of Engineers...”
06:29:44 End titles...see your army recruiting officer.
Cold War Era; Arctic Construction; 1950s; Defense Planning; Strategic Air Command Base; SAC; Government Military Propaganda;
NOTE: Thule AB constructed in secret beginning 1951, announced in 1952 & completed in 1953.
NOTE: Partial or any continuous of 06:22:19 - sold as single reel.
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1952 - 1953, Cold War, Greenland: SAC Base Construction & Completion Ironworkers throwing & catching rivets & placing; trusses raised by cranes & guided. Hanger doors added, moved 06:23:08 Secretary of Air Force Thomas K. Finletter & inspection party; MCUs. Aerial view over partially completed barracks. Barrack construction & CU stuffing floors w/ insulation & covered; installation of Clements panels & joints sealed w/ mastic. MCU attaching panels w/ lag screws. 06:24:09 Exteriors & interiors w/ bunks. Large mess hall. Serving chow line & workers seated & eating at tables. Men in recreation room shooting pool; at church services. 06:25:02 Concrete construction; welding tanks; completing buildings & framework construction. 06:25:29 01Oct51 (?) General Curtis LeMay, visits, briefed by Colonel Clarence Renshaw. 06:25:48 Top coat of asphalt laid on airstrip & control tower under construction. Laying electrical cables & landing lights placed. 06:26:12 LS across Thule harbor; aerial over mountains; ice covering bay; snow & sleet blowing across Quonset & Atwell Huts & cranes 06:26:48 Work crews leaving, boarding planes & taxiing, takeoff. Aircraft overhead. 06:27:15 1952. Construction of hangers; steelworkers placing framework & steel plates. Welding. 06:27:41 Interior of hanger w/ plane; exterior LS fighter jets on line &F-94 (?) taking off l. to r. Four overhead. 06:28:08 Four-engine MATs airlcraft taking off r. to l. past, overhead. 06:28:19 SOF Sgt. James Mansfield at desk summarizes: “...great example of what this country can do when the chips are down.” 06:28:37 Major General Samuel D. Sturges, Jr. Chief of Army Engineers speaks to camera: “...is typical of the construction tasks being performed thruout the world today by the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army & the construction industry of the United States. In this day & age this country must be prepared immediately to defend itself. Fortunately we have a unique arrangement in our system whereby the civil works of the country are constructed in every state in the union by an organization in being known as the Civil Works of the Corps of Engineers...” 06:29:44 End titles...see your army recruiting officer. Cold War Era; Arctic Construction; 1950s; Defense Planning; Strategic Air Command Base; SAC; Government Military Propaganda; NOTE: Thule AB constructed in secret beginning 1951, announced in 1952 & completed in 1953. NOTE: Partial or any continuous of 06:22:19 - sold as single reel. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk