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Operation Reforger & Autumn Forge NATO Strategic Air Lift Maneuvers

Reel Number: 221451-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1980

Country: Germany,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 07:16:03

TC Ends: 07:21:55

Duration: 00:05:52

Operation Reforger & Autumn Forge NATO Strategic Air Lift Maneuvers Air Force Now Knife pulled out over map of Europe. Dramatic shot of tank gun turning straight on, CU, gunner. NATO flag & four USSR (?) jets over. Line of tank guns firing; NATO tanks down highway, turn into woods. NATO plane over. 07:17:11 Soviet tanks & equipment on parade; in action & planes overhead. 07:17:26 NATO troops & maneuvers. August 1980 strategic air lift maneuvers, Operation Reforger. Galaxy C-5 & Starlifter C-141 transport planes landing, taxiing, in flight. Cockpit shots. Shots of planes being unloaded, soldiers deplaning, on tarmac. I 07:18:34 Interview w/ pilot Steve Krumstadt. Aerial refueling shots. C-141B in flight. Interview w/ navigator. Parachute drop - men & material, also seen pallets leaving plane from inside. Operation Autumn Forge. 07:19:58 Pilot in cockpit. Exercise takes place a few hundred miles from East Germany. Men in plane sitting on floor wearing gas masks. Low level drop of pallet w/ equipment. View from below of men out of planes & landing. NATO air forces airmen & planes into single Air Force. 07:20:59 US helicopter rescue teams training w/ Dutch air crews, hovering, lifting into helicopter. 07:21:30 Summary of shots of paratroops, parachutes, airplanes, troops into buses. Cold War; Military Training; 1980;

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