TAC Operations, Oct-Nov62 R15 of 27
McDill AFB, Tampa Florida
Men playing volley ball on flight line & working on FW-152 #63152 F-84 (?) fighter jet. Men walk away. Volleyball game, stops and men come around for mail call (good). MCU reading letters.
04:11:08 Airman riding unicycle, gets mail; another reading. Quonset hut on airstrip w/ sign: 27th TFW Cannon AFB N.Mex.
04:12:02 Sign: 363 TRW A&E and Recon Tech Sqd. Covered pickup truck across field to building, men run in with bundles and put large cannister on table. Man w/ earphones and mic at chart. Man at table signing in cannisters and hands to airman who runs to processors. Processsor activity with film processed and/or washed in chrome tanks by hand. Put onto leader on processor or printer w/ staples and feeding into machine. Various repeat shots covering action.
04:14:35 Airman runs with carboard film box across runway to RF-101 and film loaded into compartment and raised into underside of plane & cover put in place. Plot in cockpit, ladder removed, canopy lowering.
04:15:58 Lab technicians leaving w/ film. Technicians attaching film to take up reel of processor as others watch. Looking at film of airstrips over light table. Brief shot of film taking up out of processer or dryer.
Cuban Crisis; Spying; Air Force Photography Laboratory Assemby & Construction; 1960s Cold War; Tactical Air Command (TAC);
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TAC Operations, Oct-Nov62 R15 of 27 McDill AFB, Tampa Florida Men playing volley ball on flight line & working on FW-152 #63152 F-84 (?) fighter jet. Men walk away. Volleyball game, stops and men come around for mail call (good). MCU reading letters. 04:11:08 Airman riding unicycle, gets mail; another reading. Quonset hut on airstrip w/ sign: 27th TFW Cannon AFB N.Mex. 04:12:02 Sign: 363 TRW A&E and Recon Tech Sqd. Covered pickup truck across field to building, men run in with bundles and put large cannister on table. Man w/ earphones and mic at chart. Man at table signing in cannisters and hands to airman who runs to processors. Processsor activity with film processed and/or washed in chrome tanks by hand. Put onto leader on processor or printer w/ staples and feeding into machine. Various repeat shots covering action. 04:14:35 Airman runs with carboard film box across runway to RF-101 and film loaded into compartment and raised into underside of plane & cover put in place. Plot in cockpit, ladder removed, canopy lowering. 04:15:58 Lab technicians leaving w/ film. Technicians attaching film to take up reel of processor as others watch. Looking at film of airstrips over light table. Brief shot of film taking up out of processer or dryer. Cuban Crisis; Spying; Air Force Photography Laboratory Assemby & Construction; 1960s Cold War; Tactical Air Command (TAC);