Air Force Now (Peacekeeper Missiles; EC-121 Radar Plane; B-52 Missions; F-14 Fighters)
Bob Hope intro, tells joke, then plea against smoking. “Take a piece of friendly advice, don’t smoke if you haven’t & if you do smoke, quit! Spend a few more years with your friends.”
12:15:14 Titles (w/ broken glass look & POV thru stars)
12:15:40 Explosion Nevada atomic test blast & mushroom cloud. VO re most serious threat. Commander Gary Curtin (SOF), 90th Strategic Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming.
12:16:18 Color USSR footage montage: Communist meeting, rocket launches, Brezhnev watching large rocket transporter, Red Square & setting up. Firing from missile sile.
12:17:01 Chart, US lagging USSR in missiles. Painting showing SSX-24 & SSX-25. Curtin SOF & launch of Peacekeeper missile, Vandenberg AFB.
12:18:00 Sep86 (?) Program signing. Technicians doing a practice deployment of Peacekeeper missile from transporter to silo. Lowering into place.
12:19:08 Control room at Vandenberg AFB testing below ground launches w/ various cameras in slow motion showing secondary blast & rocket tracked from from plane. VERY GOOD.
12:20:41 Title: Project Warrior. South East Asia & Vietnam Map. Tan Son Nhut w/ EC-121 Big Eye electronic radar plane; crew inside. Tracking planes, guiding planes in for attack. GOOD.
12:22:02 B-52s on ground being fueled, loaded w/ bombs & landing drag parachute repacked. Fusing bombs & pre-loaded; loading. Several taking off. Interior of cockpit. F-100F alongside to photgraph strike & target damage. Views of explosions. (VERY GOOD).
12:23:54 Landing & maintenance on F-14 jet fighters. 94th Aircraft Maintenance Unit personnel talk of their task & teamwork necessary. Taking off.
12:27:13 Coming attactions: ACMI Training System; Philippines,17th Surveillance Squadron. Man w/ arriflex camera.
12:27:41 Bob Hope repeats “Don’t Smoke”. Presented by your Air Force.
Cold War; SAC; Vietnam Bombing Run; Anti-Smoking; 1980s; Propaganda;
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Air Force Now (Peacekeeper Missiles; EC-121 Radar Plane; B-52 Missions; F-14 Fighters) Bob Hope intro, tells joke, then plea against smoking. “Take a piece of friendly advice, don’t smoke if you haven’t & if you do smoke, quit! Spend a few more years with your friends.” 12:15:14 Titles (w/ broken glass look & POV thru stars) 12:15:40 Explosion Nevada atomic test blast & mushroom cloud. VO re most serious threat. Commander Gary Curtin (SOF), 90th Strategic Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. 12:16:18 Color USSR footage montage: Communist meeting, rocket launches, Brezhnev watching large rocket transporter, Red Square & setting up. Firing from missile sile. 12:17:01 Chart, US lagging USSR in missiles. Painting showing SSX-24 & SSX-25. Curtin SOF & launch of Peacekeeper missile, Vandenberg AFB. 12:18:00 Sep86 (?) Program signing. Technicians doing a practice deployment of Peacekeeper missile from transporter to silo. Lowering into place. 12:19:08 Control room at Vandenberg AFB testing below ground launches w/ various cameras in slow motion showing secondary blast & rocket tracked from from plane. VERY GOOD. 12:20:41 Title: Project Warrior. South East Asia & Vietnam Map. Tan Son Nhut w/ EC-121 Big Eye electronic radar plane; crew inside. Tracking planes, guiding planes in for attack. GOOD. 12:22:02 B-52s on ground being fueled, loaded w/ bombs & landing drag parachute repacked. Fusing bombs & pre-loaded; loading. Several taking off. Interior of cockpit. F-100F alongside to photgraph strike & target damage. Views of explosions. (VERY GOOD). 12:23:54 Landing & maintenance on F-14 jet fighters. 94th Aircraft Maintenance Unit personnel talk of their task & teamwork necessary. Taking off. 12:27:13 Coming attactions: ACMI Training System; Philippines,17th Surveillance Squadron. Man w/ arriflex camera. 12:27:41 Bob Hope repeats “Don’t Smoke”. Presented by your Air Force. Cold War; SAC; Vietnam Bombing Run; Anti-Smoking; 1980s; Propaganda;