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keywords: cold war, united states air force, air defense command, early warning system, oscilloscope
Synopsis: With the danger of submarine launched Soviet Ballistic Missiles the U.S. technology to detect those threats became more sophisticated with more early warning locations required during the Cold War years. Shield of Freedom Outtakes, reel 17. (2011-702f.txt 68987)...(read more)
- Date: 1960's
- Duration: 00:10:51
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Shield Of Freedom - Early Warning
Unedited footage during the Cold War years of the 1960s between the United States and the Soviet Union Russia. As the Soviet Union threat evolved from bombers to include submarine launched missiles America's detection and command and control systems grew more sophisticated with installation of a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System BMEWS under the direction of NORAD. Shows such a location near Laredo, Texas.
Shows a an United States Air Force Captain entering control room and looking at oscilloscope, CU of staff sergeant at console. Air Force Captain with staff sergeant looking at film strip and strip being analyzed. LS of TLM-18 antenna with cactus in fg and CU of cattle grazing. Air Force AP motioning car through gate and pan right to sign on fence: 9th Aerospace Defense Division, ADC, Spacetrack Sensor in Laredo, Texas.
CU of ADC Air Defense Command emblem and other emblems of other North American Air Defense Command organizations of the US Army, Naval forces and RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force. TV monitor in darken room, staff sergeant at console using phone. Weather map on TV monitor, hand making changes on weather map.