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F-15 Eagle Jet - WWII Eagle Squadron - Project Warrior - NATO Germany

Reel Number: 221446-01

Color: Black and White and Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1980s,1940s

Country: England,France,Germany,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Florida,Paris,sembach,tindall afb

TC Begins: 02:01:00

TC Ends: 02:16:19

Duration: 00:15:19

Description this edition: F-15 Eagle Jet - WWII Eagle Squadron - Project Warrior - NATO Germany Montage: Titles. Air Force Now 02:01:43 INT CU shooting pool, intercut w/ new Southeast Regional Operations Control Center, Tindall AFB, Florida. Staff at work, computers & monitors, consoles. SOF Col. Brookes Bayes (sp), 23rd Air Division, describes purpose of identification of in-coming aircraft. CU men on telephone, buttons, women at scope, on phone: “Alert to Activate - Scramble”. Montage: pilots run to aircraft, takeoffs - F-15 Eagle fighters jets in flight - INT cockpit, console. USSR bomber w/ men in tail window. Landing; eagle bird onto branch (GOOD). 02:04:18 WWII veteran Edwin Dale Taylor w/ box of souvenirs from time in RAF Eagle squadron - US volunteers who fought in Battle of Britain. Nazis into Paris - Nazi banner, Hitler & Goering, Luftwaffe takeoff etc. - threat to Britain; family listening to radio - Churchill “we shall fight” speech overlaid w/ shots of coastal defense training; RAF fighters; good shots of Eagle Squadron members after formation in Oct40. Hurricane fighters take off. Gun Camera, crashed Luftwaffe plane - Spitfires in aerial battle. CU newspaper photo of Taylor receives medal upon flying last mission w/ Eagle squadron in 1942 - wounded but shot down two planes. (GOOD) 02:09:00 Eagle Squadron swaps RAF wings for US Army Air Corps & US flag raised, Sep42; aerial combat scenes w/ photos of pilots superimposed. CUs photos from Taylor’s collection - clippings re dead comrades. Taylor closes photo album & box of memories. 02:10:55 Project Warrior. VS neon lights & signs; Norton AFB - 63rd Air Group Civil Engineering Section fitting energy-saving circular lightbulbs, reduced energy budget by two thirds. “Saving Energy, Another Way of Assuring Readiness.” 02:12:11 Bavaria, Germany. CU Montage: road signs, horse-drawn carriage, farming, vineyard, Hohenschwangau castle in mountains next to lake; Neuschwanenstein (NewSwanstone) Castle. 02:12:58 CU & MS aircraft taxiing at Sembach AFB. Forward Air Controllers of 601st Tactical Control Wing - commander describes job linking air power & ground power. Logistics, soldiers on ground w/ field telephones directing air exercises on NATO range. Tanks, soldiers out of truck into forest, CU tanks w/ run-over shots. Air mission described (SOF). Air to air shots - OB-10 (?) planes over Germany. Shot of plane landing turns into drawing at end title. Military Aviation; ca 1970s; ca 1980s; Cold War; Russian Bombers;

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