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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - U-2 SPY
PLANES
See also: Cuban Missile Crisis - generic; Robert McNamara; JFK 1961-62; Kruschchev 1959-62; Fidel Castro; Bay of Pigs; Cuba & USSR Relations
221333 02:18:49
- 02:26:57 1962 SIL B/W USA SAC Reconnaissance Activities During
The Cuban Crisis, 24Oct-10Nov62 R1
of 19
Laughlin AFB, Texas
U-2 taking off towards & over camera.
02:19:16 Base building & AEMS 3 van arrives & airmen screened
by security guared into Category 1 Restricted are per sign.
02:20:34 Billboard sign: 4080 Strat Wing Peace Is
Our Profession.
U-2 taxiing w/ chase cars & taking off. Ext. of Buildings & airmen w/ garment bags out. Sign: Welcome, Laughlin Air Force Base, Home of 3646 Pilot
Training Wing, 4080 Strategic Wing Government station wagon pulls up & man into building. Sign 4028 Strat Recon Weather Sq. Category 2 Restricted Area Tilt up to sign Home of the Texas Ambassadors. Flag pole w/ flag flying over low
barracks type building. United
States Air Fore 3646 Wing Headquarters Air Training Command 4080 Strategic
Wing.
02:24:44 Government pickup pulls up to building. Men come out & unload large
metal boxes (U-2 cameras?) & take inside. Sign: HQ 4080 S W
Intelligence Division. Airman
pushes cart past & into building.
Spying; Surveillance; Cold War
221333 02:27:06
- 02:35:43 1962 SIL B/W USA SAC Reconnaissance Activities During
The Cuban Crisis, 24Oct-10Nov62 R3
of 19
Laughlin AFB, Texas
Pilot fitted into pressurized
flight suit by technician, hooking up oxygen bottle. CU & MCU. Boarding truck PSD-1. U-2 plane & pilot boarding shot day for
night. Hatch closed. View from chase car following of take off w/ wing support
wheels seen dropping away.
02:32:07 View of man in chase car talking to pilot on radio.
02:32:31 Billboard sign: 4080 Strat Wing Peace Is Our Profession Traffic waved past Laughlin Air Force Base guard station.
02:33:33 Pilot out of Van PSD-2 and walking to plane, helped into
parachute & boarding plane. Taking off.
Spying; Surveillance; Cold War
221333 02:47:51
- 02:56:58 1962 SIL B/W USA SAC Reconnaissance Activities During
The Cuban Crisis, 24Oct-10Nov62 R9
of 19
Laughlin AFB, Texas
LS across runway w/ airbase
buildings visible, U-2 taxiing followed by chase cars towards
camera and past. Drop away wheels tested. Men hold wings as plane begins take off
run, taking off.
02:49:40 Man talking on radio in chase car. Base building, doors open and men wheel out covered cameras
to U-2 hanger and
doors closed.
02:51:00 U-2 taking off.
02:51:47 Wing pogo wheel pulled off supply rack & signed
for.
02:52:28 Threading up audio tape onto recorder. C-123 (?) w/ U-2 taking off behind.
02:53:30 U-2 being fueled.
02:55:38 Twin engined C-123 engines started. Taxiing past & away from camera.
02:56:28 U-2 sitting on flight line. Brief shot of hanger building.
Spying; Surveillance; Cold War
221333 02:57:09
- 02:59:24 1962 SIL B/W USA SAC Reconnaissance Activities During
The Cuban Crisis, 24Oct-10Nov62 R10 of 19
Offutt AFB, Omaha Nebraska
Technicians remove camera equipment
from U-2, cover & wheel away. Loading boxes from pickup onto car at loading dock by airmen. Down corridor and into film processing
laboratory.
Spying; Surveillance; Cold War
221334 04:17:48 - 04:19:53 1962 SIL COL USA SAC Activity
During Cuban Crisis 21Nov62 (date may be incorrect)
Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas
U-2 with chase vehicle & van; CU of flashing red light on chase
vehicle as plane readied and canopy closed. Hoses unhitched and taxiing w/ pogo wheels under wings close
past camera. MS of men removing
pogo wheel and holding wings and take off. Holding ears. Take
off out of sight into blue sky w/ light cumulus clouds.
Spying; Air Force Reconnaisance
Photography;1960s Cold War; Strategic Air Command (SAC);
221334 04:40:50 - 04:51:16 1962 SIL B/W USA SAC Activities During Cuban Crisis,
19-20Nov62 R1 of 2
Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
19Nov62 Major Heyser & Col Jackson briefed by Lt. Colonel
Martinez in small room in front of map on wall showing Florida and waters to
west. MCU & of Heyser &
Jackson listening & asking questions
04:43:17 CU of small flight map & pointer.
04:43:39 two other men at table with maps etc. Heyser (?) enters in coveralls w/ towel
around neck; they discuss map and mark it. Could be debriefing.
04:46:25 Heyser fitted into pressurized flight suit; walked out of
building and boarding van. Van
drives to U-2 parked w/ sun shade over cockpit. Out of van and boarding plane. Crewman w/ mic talks to pilot prior to closing cockpit cover.
Cuban Crisis; Spying; Air Force
Reconnaissance; Cold War; 1960s;
221210 05:12:46
- 05:26:40 1962 Si B/W USA; Cuba; [Cuban Missile
Crisis Background Footage] (1962)
INCLUDING:
05:13:58 Very low aerial alongside USSR freighters during missile
crisis. K. speaking in CU. Still of JFK & Brezhnev. U-2 in flight. US AF technicians printing & inspecting aerial photographs
showing missile placement.
05:15:20
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