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Armed Forces Display US Might On Observance Day

Armed Forces Display US Might On Observance Day
Clip: 354101_1_1
Year Shot: 1956 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1618
Original Film: 029-042-01
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Timecode: 00:21:58 - 00:23:16

The United States flexes a few muscles, as it unveils its new Redstone Guided Missile at Selfridge Field, Michigan. And shows how fast an enemy bomber could be destroyed off the coast of Florida. Also a carrier pilot skids off the flight deck of the USS. Essex off San Diego. Aerial shot - Selfridge Field, Michigan. Planes, rocket and people. MS - People queue in line to go inside a plane. CUS - US Army Redstone Guided Missile. Ground to air - Jets fly in formation. Aerial shot from Florida - Destruction of a B-17 bomber by rockets. MCUS - A crash landing of a jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier. It skids across the flight deck and then plunges into the sea. The pilot of the plane was unhurt and pulled out of the sea by helicopter and delivered aboard the carrier off the coast of San Diego, California.