1980s - Color, USAF Newsreel: Patriot Horse - Assignment Europe - Reconnaissance Pilot

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1980s - Color, USAF Newsreel: Patriot Horse - Assignment Europe - Reconnaissance Pilot Knight on horseback rides up to camera outside castle: “Welcome to this month’s Air Force Now”. Title. 00:01:37 307th Civil Engineering Squadron, Kelly AFB, Texas preparing for exercise Patriot Horse. Trucks loaded onto C-130 cargo plane, CUs. C-130 in flight, int. C-5 transport plane takes off. POV under signs: Highway 183 South to Bergstrom AFB. Truck convoy turning off highway, parking on field & setting up tents. Medical personnel on walkie talkie; first aid exercise on injured soldier in tent. Engineers repair damaged airstrip w/ bulldozers etc. Plates placed, runway lighting installed. 00:03:38 Commander Bill Myers SOF re testing war skills training. Field exercise in camp - colored smoke flares set off simulate chemical attack; troops thru grass defend camp - firing rifles & machine guns w/ soldiers playing enemy. Construction projects at Bergstrom AB paving perimeter road & erect security fences. Maj Don Savage SOF re use of high explosives to clear space for airstrip; CU plastic explosive? cut into segments; crew drilling holes in concrete bunkers for explosives; detonator pumped; bunker explodes (GOOD). 00:05:22 Title: Assignment Europe. London street scenes, Parliament, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Beefeater on guard, Castles in English countryside, White Cliffs of Dover, communication masts & radar. US Master Sergeant Thomas Tish in garden w/ wife - operating location chief at Swingate station - radio relay link antennas as link between US, England & Continental Europe. 00:06:32 Man says Welcome to Germany in German. Bavarian scenes inc. Schloss Neuschwanstein ?, clock w/ mechanical figures; fairytale castles on mountain, quaint villages etc. Bustling town square. AF wife SOF re settling into German life & sons missing home. VO & SOF serviceman: Americans shouldn’t be afraid of coming to Europe because of terrorism. POV driving: “we’re proud of being Americans but we try not to paint bullseyes on ourselves”. 00:08:15 INT cockpit of US cargo plane flying cargo to & from West Berlin - AVs. German countryside. Husband & wife on sofa re cultural experiences of living in Europe - VS London, England & Germany scenics. 00:09:48 Project Warrior SOF Lt Col Clyde East. WWII German planes shot down; P-51 Mustangs in flight during Korean War; First air refueling scenes w/ description by East. Shaw AFB North Carolina where East returned in 1958 after acting as advisor to Italian Air Force; commanded first RF-101 unit. 00:12:55 Headlines Oct62 re Kennedy announcement on Cuban Missile Crisis; JFK making speech. Reconnaissance scenes. AV photos of Cuba, Florida AB - briefing - target photos. Kennedy’s visit to Homestead AFB Florida to thank East & his team. JFK out of motorcade - planes fly over. Still of East as WWII pilot. Presented By Your Air Force. Military Aviation; Tourism; Travel; Military Propaganda; Promotional; NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk