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Air Force Now (Minuteman III Missile; Wright Bros; A-10; Texas Vietnam Memorial)

Reel Number: 220371-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: San Antonio, Texas,Vandenberg AFB, California,Warren AFB, Wyoming & Nebraska

TC Begins: 23:01:01

TC Ends: 23:13:07

Duration: 00:12:06

Air Force Now (Minuteman III Missile; Wright Bros; A-10; Texas Vietnam Memorial) Title Sequence 23:01:16 CU 24 hr clock. Operator in control room, Enable switch, launch switch, missile silo door opens, fires. Test launch of Minuteman III missile, Vandenberg AFB. Control room w/ trainees. SOF about training. Aerials F.E. Warren AFB in desert. Combat crew commander SOF re selection of combat crew team etc. 23:03:21 AFB kitchen. Security police in office. Commander to camera re security violations. Armed security guards check fence. Maintenance team arrive in trucks. CU missile head. Making repairs to missile in silo. 23:04:52 Pioneers of Flight - Wright Brothers Wright Brothers & launching plane w/ 2 propellers. First flight drawn into modern military plane in flight. Bleriot & early aviation - inventions. Flying demonstration for Army. Jet in flight. 23:06:22 A-10 Thunderbolt at night taxiing. Seen in daylight on airfield. Inset interviews with pilots on tinted background showing Thunderbolts. Loading ammunition. CU A-10 Gatling gun. More inset interviews pilots with ammunition loaded in bg. Takeoffs & in flight. Explosion on ground. Flying low over field. 23:09:48 Monument to Soldiers lost in Vietnam Conflict Vietnam POWs released. POWs aboard plane. Military cemetery & military funeral (Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association). Monument with planes looking like crosses. Barry Goldwater present. Lt. Donald Riggs speaks to dedicate monument to soldiers lost in Vietnam War. Uncovering plaque. Lt. Gen. John Roberts speech. Military funeral. Planes fly over monument in slow motion. Presented by Your Air Force.

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