This is such a cool video. It is exactly what my (late) father did in the Air Force. He was a test pilot, fighter pilot, and instructor out of Nellis and surrounding Air Force Bases in the late 1950’s through the 1960’s. He was also sent to IBM as liaison to learn about and then manage the computer network system installations throughout. He never told us much except that he was an F100 pilot in Las Vegas, that he was with some people working on some pretty “neat” stuff… and that he rubbed elbows with some of the NASA guys. I sure wish I would have asked him more about it all before he passed in 2008. We only just recently scratched the surface on some of what he actually did back then. The fact that he barely said anything to us about that part of his life only makes me wonder that much more.

The F-100 was a beautiful aircraft

Thank you so much for making films like this available! As an Air Force brat, I grew up with a dad who was in SAC for his entire AF career .... it is wonderful to see examples of the sorts of things he did.

@rodfirefighter8341

4 жыл бұрын

I was in SAC and TAC my Air Force career. I saw how important each were to accomplish the overall missions we each had!

Great film for lovers of the F-100. Some super footage.

I was in TAC many decades ago, it was the best part of my life.

I'm USAF retired. I love watching this old cold war videos. I served until the cold war ended. Nice to be part of cold war history.😃👍🪖

It was absolutely incredible the progress the Air Force and Naval aviation made during the 1950s. Cool to see General OP Weyland at the beginning. He was Patton's tactical air commander in 1944-45 and was one of the great USAAF generals in WW2 you never hear about. He and Generals Quesada and Kenney invented American tactical air power.

Refueling jets from those old prop driven tankers was really sporty-- most of the time full power on the propeller tankers was just above stall speed for the jets. Took some real skill and doing to hold the jet steady as it took on thousands of pounds of fuel. Notice the angle of attack on those Super Sabers as they're finishing tanking up and preparing to uncouple. Of course if the tanker has any problem and loses engine power, and thus speed, it can turn nasty real quick. Those guys had a lot of guts and more skill... Later! OL J R :)

@kennagel8088

3 жыл бұрын

I know a tanker pilot and said refueling A10s were tricky. Slow down the tanker while the A 10 tries to match. It is a ballet.

@flukedogwalker3016

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad my dad was TAC but we were at Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana during the Cuban missile crisis. It's nice to know that a third of the fighter interceptors were at Billings civilian airport to knock down the Russian bombers in case Great Falls got glassed.

We were still required to watch films this old when I was in the AF in the 80s.

@eternalapparatus2161

4 жыл бұрын

kurtb8474 Very well .

@rodfirefighter8341

4 жыл бұрын

We were still required to show the old films that had viable information in them. Most of your newer stuff is either slide presentation or on computer disk but still has to be approved through higher Air Force.

@josemoreno3334

4 жыл бұрын

Your right, We did watch them.

@CH-pv2rz

3 жыл бұрын

@Jose Moreno ... "you're"...

"In a matter of hours, these planes can drop atom bombs anywhere on Earth! THE END" yep sounds about right to me

@Chilly_Billy

Жыл бұрын

In those days, not really.

This film really shows the advantage of the flying boom vs. probe and drogue method of refueling.

In the intro, the u.s. "never fired the first shot".. hmm, how DID we clear out native Americans off "our" land?

Back in the days when America was the still the shining city on the hill, for she still followed the commandments of the one who spoke those words, and her most basic laws reflected such. Today she only follows temptation... the commandment of the destroyer, and she will pay the price dearly.

Thank you for uploading.

Love how the filmmakers used music from Night of the Living Dead for the "tension mounts" segment.

@williamduffy1227

2 жыл бұрын

7:12 Cue the spooky music...

@frankdayton731

Жыл бұрын

This footage was shot *before* Night of The Living Dead was even written.

@keepsake327

Жыл бұрын

@@frankdayton731 well then Night of the Living Dead used previously recorded music. It was still used in the both.

"never fired the first shot…" snurk

@KillingDeadThings

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, made me raise an eyebrow. Not sure what snurk is though lol

@jasperlawrence5361

4 жыл бұрын

@@KillingDeadThings old timey lol = snurk, the noise you make with your nose when you exhale involuntarily through it as a result of explosive laughter, as in at an absurdity.

@IronPhysik

3 жыл бұрын

Up until 1954 thats true as far as I know

@anonym3017

3 жыл бұрын

"nor has she ever failed in a fight for freedom" snurk

@jasperlawrence5361

3 жыл бұрын

@@IronPhysik The USA had an actual empire in the 19th Century that they took from Spain, including the Philippines, where they did the usual empirey things like enslavement, medical experiments, and the like. Hawaii and Puerto Rico are the remnants of that empire along with various Pacific islands. Every country santises its history and tells nice bedtime stories to its citizens. We English pretend to ourselves that our empire was a force for good and that we did not kill anyone. In fact we killed an estimated 150 millions through war, deliberately induced famines (an estimated forty million in India across about three years which we knew was going to happen in advance as a result of our policies). America fired the first shot before 1954, and then some.

love the soundtrack!

Does anyone remember a TV program called (I believe) "Air Power" from the 1970s? It was in black and white and featured various models of military aircraft.

Extraordinary quality!

19:24 one plane you dont hear much about. The B66 Destroyer

One has to scan thru 10 posts to read an authentic example of one.😊

I'm sure for 1956 this was state of the art technology. I'm amazed how technology has advanced so quickly. Cant begin to think 50 years from now. Thanks for protecting our Freedom.

@josemoreno3334

4 жыл бұрын

Thank You from a Cold War Veteran.

Candy dishes at Foster are filled with dexedrine and everyone is ready to fly

@williamduffy1227

2 жыл бұрын

Dexy's Midnight Runners... 😄😄

Nothing says were here to party like a f105 loaded with 16 750 lbs bombs.

When i was in 1975 to 1981, we did not wear, nor were issued shorts! @ 5;00 in.

The madness runs deep in this film..

Two years later Foster AFB closed.

Roggggerrr! )

I can't imagine what these planes are made to do.. scary! 🤔

This movie shows clearly that a nuclear war fare is fatal to human living.

When I crewed the 100 the IFR boom was curved up and then leveled off about 5 feet from the pilots head. I never saw a straight boom before

@Chilly_Billy

Жыл бұрын

The straight boom was standard on the "C" and continued well into production of the "D" model. I've read that all straight booms were replaced with the curved ones, making it much easier for the pilot to line-up on the refueling basket.

@robertstack2144

Жыл бұрын

@@Chilly_Billy I never knew that, thanx

Amn. and A1Cs as loaders...

🔴Is that "Shorty" Powers?!

For those familiar with the opening shots in Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick MUST NOT HAVE SEEN the even better footage seen here at 5:54.

@robertstack2144

Жыл бұрын

Sitting around the coffee pot in a BS session, we crew chiefs made jokes that doing IFR was useless since the 100 was using more juice than the tanker could supply.

Not sure where the F-100s taking off for the trip was taken, but I doubt @Foster AFB as I am not aware of any mountains near Victoria. Still enjoyed the videos including the radio chatter.

@lukestrawwalker

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Victoria is about as flat as it gets LOL:) OL J R :)

Globemaster. Old Shakey.

I love this type of documentary/propaganda video, a snapshot of a time in history that could have seen a MAD scenario becoming reality, glad it didn’t, but, I wish their were more films from the post war era through to present about the RAF, I know that there are a few but not in the same vein as those about the USAs military, the United Kingdom films are really not that interesting or informative, my family had 4 generations that have served in the RAF, I did 24 years so I am not that interested in anything between 1979 and 2003, but I would love some films from the 50-60s as that is when my dad served, if anyone knows of a good source of that era films would you be kind enough and send me a link or channel reference. I really enjoyed this video, thanks for sharing, big 👍.

@mookins45

4 жыл бұрын

'Fourteen Hundred Zulu'

@ProbablyTheBestUkuleleDadEver

4 жыл бұрын

Well it looks like the world is rapidly heading back to MAD, so nuclear Armageddon could be just around the corner.

@scottgoodman8993

4 жыл бұрын

It is my understanding the US armed forces work quite closely with its allies. A film about the UK's airforce would look similar to the US practices, with different roundels on the wings of the aircraft, similar aircraft capability but with European manufacture. Also on break, the airmen would drink tea with their biscuits, while US airmen would have coffee and cookies or doughnuts.

11:29 X-mit tone: precursor to IFF?

IS THE ENEMY LISTENING IN ON THESE ELECTRO MAGNETIC EMISSIONS I THINK SO

16:38 The Ace Deck of Cards insignia on the tails are cool. What unit is that?

@robertstack2144

3 жыл бұрын

Funny you mention that. When Air Natonal Guard units before Nam had Operational Readiness Inspections by the Regular Air Force hierarchy, they would gig us on any artwork except the TAC decal. It was verboten, while Regular Air Force unit aircraft had all sorts of artwork on the planes. In Nam, we out flew, out bombed, out maintained the Regular units and they stopped messing with us , we were the professionals, they were the stepchildren

7:46 420 🌳

Can anyone ID the watch at 7:15?

Lob Bombing Than Run Like Hell Hope To Get Away

Great footage if a bit heavy on the propaganda.

Air Strike Force... Sounds like a type of Nike basketball shoe!!!

@ReformedSooner24

5 жыл бұрын

eric zerkle Haha, sounds like a nerf gun

@rodfirefighter8341

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the Nike Air Defense System that was ALL over the US in the early days after WWII? I didn't know that they could make a shoe out of anything like that?

@CH-pv2rz

3 жыл бұрын

@Rod Firefighter What? Early days after WW2? Nike missiles were in service from the mid 1950s (10 years after the end of WW2) and served in the US to the later 1970s, in NATO until the late 1980s and in South Korea until 2006... The last Nike Hercules missile was test fired in 2006.

I wonder what SAC made of this hokum....

@desireegrisham3892

3 жыл бұрын

What about the Two Man Rule in a single sweater?

1812 USA fired first shot and lost...

@RJStockton

4 жыл бұрын

@Richard Ensey We pulled out a "W" in overtime.

@Rampant_Colt

4 жыл бұрын

stay in school, Alex..

How 'bout that Mexican war?

OMFG..... 1:21 No she just provoked everyone else to fire first

This TAC so-called mission must have been limited. The aircraft shown namely the F-100 was more a fighter-bomber with limited range. Not really designed to carry a nuclear payload for any great distance. Thus the Strategic Air Command (SAC) became a reality and used aircraft such as the B-52 long range bomber capable of carrying a large nuclear payload to be used to hit enemy targets. The type of weapons carried depended on the assigned targets. So the use of the Tactical Air Command (TAC) to carry out a nuclear strike was limited and the idea was soon abandoned. As a matter of fact so was SAC and TAC.

@pillowsocket

4 жыл бұрын

Did you miss the idea of tactical nuclear weapons completely? The B-52, B-36, and B-47 all existed at this time. This is a seperate mission.

@rodfirefighter8341

4 жыл бұрын

M&M, TAC had the mandate to follow its nuclear and conventional missions. F-84, F-89, F-100 and F-102 carried nuclear weapons back then. I don't recall seeing or hearing of F-86 or F-104 carrying them but I am not sure of time line and nuclear protocols that would have governed that?

@rodfirefighter8341

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, they did show the B-66, so I guess that was under TAC's mandate as well!

@lukestrawwalker

3 жыл бұрын

From what I read about TAC relating to/from some of the astronauts (like Roger Chaffee, who died in the Apollo 1 fire) biographies who actually were pilots in Germany assigned to squadrons like these, basically they were "one way missions" and they knew that. They were assigned to strike air defense missile and radar emplacements and installations in Eastern Europe and the western Soviet Union to open up "corridors" for the B-52's flying in behind them carrying strategic weapons. The Soviet air defense even then was capable of inflicting too high a losses on SAC for them to "go it alone" into the Soviet Union, and they knew it, so the Super Sabers and Thunderchiefs and other TAC aircraft were tasked with going in first, nuking their air defenses to punch holes all through it, so the B-52's could slip in with relative ease... Of course in wartime refueling was pretty much out particularly from propeller driven planes that wouldn't survive long in the age of jet combat, so basically it was "fly in, nuke your airfield, take out any targets of opportunity, and try to fly as far back as you could before you ran out of fuel... then punch out and hope for the best". They were considered expendable for the mission.

Obviously this film was made before 2003. Up until then the narrator could get away with saying that America has never started a war. (The Spanish-American War was also based on a lie with an agenda but most folks weren't/aren't aware of the facts regarding the sinking of the USS Maine.)

@WomackPhotoKCMO

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Karma Yes...that was before the country was so full of wimps.

@nolarobert

8 жыл бұрын

Non-sequitur, please restate in a coherent manner.

@nolarobert

7 жыл бұрын

"The First Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies," billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-first-iraq-war-was-also-sold-to-the-public-based-on-a-pack-of-lies/ "The Lies We Believed (And Still Believe) About Iraq," billmoyers.com/2014/06/27/the-lies-we-believed-and-still-believe-about-iraq/ which I quote to show the bipartisan nature of this issue, "Did President Bush and other officials from his administration lie about Iraq intentionally and deliberately? It’s hard to tell without unfettered access to the principals and their internal communications. Certainly, we should never underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion - too often, we find it easy to believe what we want to believe. But the fact is that they have avoided the glare of formal scrutiny about their personal responsibility for the litany of repeated, false statements in the run-up to war. Under the Republicans in 2005 and 2006, and the Democrats in 2007 and 2008, there was no congressional investigation into this specific question. Congressional oversight focused almost entirely on the quality of the US government’s pre-war intelligence - not the veracity of the highest-ranking US officials’ public statements or the objectivity and logic of their decision-making in instigating the war. Nor in 2009 did the new Democratic president Barack Obama, his administration, or the Democratic Congress evince any interest in investigating this politically sensitive subject. There may be no more telling example of what has happened to congressional oversight in Washington in recent decades."

@nolarobert

7 жыл бұрын

***** I understand that being presented with facts that contradicts your political beliefs threatens your worldview but being dismissive in such a manner betrays your lack of understanding of the history of our involvement in Iraq and the Middle East. Now that is an Epic Fail that should embarrass any thoughtful, rational citizen of our Republic.

@nolarobert

7 жыл бұрын

So you say you spent 13 months in the combat zone of a military action that began with the arrival of USAF combat jets on August 8th of 1990, 6 days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. On January 12th of 1991 Authorization for Use of Force by Congress. On January 16th, the air campaign against Iraqi forces begins. February 24th sees the start of "Desert Storm" as Allied troops engage Iraqi troops on the ground. The "war" is over in 100 hours as Iraq agrees to a cease fire on February 28th which is made permanent on March 3rd. That doesn't add up to 13 months. My best friend in high school served in the US Navy during that era on various ships including the USS New Jersey. My brother-in-law served with the US Army during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. I've met a number of veterans of this operation from each branch of the military. Just because you saw action there doesn't mean you understand the geopolitical situation and history of the region or of the conflict. I understand it is easy to play the "I was there" card to shut down any discussion. You'll have to do better than that as you still haven't made any substantial defense of your position. Feel free to provide historical evidence that supports your position or admit that it doesn't exist.

Nazazazi occculltn Gnowledge+

@Rampant_Colt

4 жыл бұрын

huh??

POOR LITTLE THINGS... Laughably

Crap

Never won Korea, never won Vietnam, never settled Iraq, never settled Afghanistan. TAC was a major bust as well. Century class aircraft FAIL.

@alexandermakrianis

7 жыл бұрын

What does his comment have to do with being liberal or conservative?

@k.h.1587

4 жыл бұрын

Korea was as good as a win, north invaded, we helped repel, and while we didn't oust the north, we returned to the status quo with a cease fire, but stayed in country as a deterrent to another invasion from the north. Vietnam was another story, we pulled out completely and the north violated the peace agreement. We did far better in Korea than Vietnam and the war was much shorter. No jungles

@Rampant_Colt

4 жыл бұрын

you can thank a U.S. serviceman for your freedom and liberties. Including your hair-brain opinions, Mark O'Whatever

@lukestrawwalker

3 жыл бұрын

@@k.h.1587 Vietnam could have been won if they weren't trying to run the day to day war from the Oval Office... too many rules of engagement, too much pussyfooting around, predictability, and frankly stupidity. Use boots on the ground to take territory and HOLD it and consolidate it, create a front line and force the NVA/Cong back. Instead Vietnam was just a patchwork of "our guys here, their guys there" all mish-mashed together and no coherent strategy or plan... recipe for failure. If you're gonna do it, go in, kick ass and take names, drive them out and back into their hole, and then either wipe them out or keep them pinned there, whether they like it or not, like we did in Korea. As for Iraq, well, at least they learned from Vietnam and went in and cleaned house in 100 hours the first time around, which was TOTALLY the correct way to do it, but Bush 1 cut it off too soon for "political reasons". He left Saddam in power on the belief that at least he would keep the whole thing from devolving into chaos (like we have now) and as long as we could control him, well, who cares? Course then 9/11 and Bush 2's whole Presidency was based on "correcting Daddy's mistakes" and so we got Gulf War 2 and we all know what a convoluted mess that turned into, and turns out the old man was right-- without Saddam's iron fist to crush the opposition, the whole thing has devolved into a friggin' mess. Same thing with Afghanistan, but it's *always* been a mess... if the Soviets couldn't straighten it out we SURE weren't going to, because the Soviets didn't exactly play with kid gloves on... Later! OL J R :)