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...largest ship, he looked on as depth charges were exploded just 700 ft. away, shaking the great ship as if it were a dog just out of a bath. Afterward. Kennedy accepted a windbreaker and moved with McNamara to the gusty starboard side of the ship to watch an aerial display. Two Terrier missiles homed in on a drone plane, but missed-although naval officers explained that they would have been close enough to the target if they had been armed with real warheads...
...Beach. After the aerial show, the President lunched aboard the big carrier, then took to his whirlybird once more, landing on Onslow Beach, below the Outer Banks, where he was joined by the Shah of Iran. Through the afternoon, the VIPs observed a well-rehearsed attack on the beach by five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile...
...year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon-borne camera produced an aerial view of Boston...
...antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti an aerial umbrella...
...attractively asserted by this modest little movie. Shot at Edwards Air Force Base, where the rocket ships are tested, the film tells the story of the Xis in terms of the men who fly it. The plot might better have been jettisoned at takeoff, but Jack Freeman's aerial-photography swells the mind with images of immensity...