Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. TAC OPERATIONS, HOMESTEAD AFB

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. TAC OPERATIONS, HOMESTEAD AFB

1962

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Summary: Coverage of TAC Operations at Homestead AFB during the Cuban Crisis, including the arrival of Gen Curtis E. LeMay, USAF CofS, Gen Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., TAC Comdr, Gen Thomas S. Power, SAC Comdr, Lt Gen Joseph J. Nazzaro, 8th AF CG, Lt Gen Thomas P. Gerrity DCS/Sys & Logistics, USAF, Lt Gen Gabriel P. Disosway, DCS/Operations USAF. 1) Shows cars parked in front of Headquarters Building. 2) Scenes of F-102's on flight line--canera pans to wingtip tank storage area. 3) Shows men loading boxes of rockets onto truck. 4) Scenes of F-102 pilot entering aircraft and running up engine. 5) Series of scenes of C-135 taxiing in, Gen Sweeney debarking and touring base. 6) Scenes of two KC-135's landing showing Lt Gen Nazzero and Gen Power debarking and being greeted. 898' Total footage in reel. Reel 2: 1) Series of scenes of C-135 taxiing, Gen LeMay debarking, being greeted and touring base. 2) Scenes of Gen LeMay returning to and boarding C-135, aircraft taxiing out and taking off. 3) Shows Gen LeMay, Lt Gen Gerrity and Lt Gen Disosway being greeted by Adm McElroy, Boca Chica NAS, Commander. 706' Total footage in reel. Reel 3: 1) Shows AP demonstrating security measures by halting airman in restricts area and holding him for arrival of security truck. 2) Scenes of men in tents resting. 211' Total footage in reel. Fair (Basic: Orig neg)

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LeMay, Curtis E. (Curtis Emerson), 1906-1990

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Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was an American Air Force general who implemented an effective but controversial strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. He later served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. LeMay joined the U.S. Army Air Corps, the precursor to the U.S. Air Force, in 1929 while studying civil engineering at Ohio State University. He had risen to the rank of major by the time of Japan's Attack on Pearl ...

Nazzaro, Joseph J., 1913-1990

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Gerrity, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1913-1968

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Thomas Patrick Gerrity (1913-1968) was born in Harlowton, Montana, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Tilden Tech and the Armour Institute, the predecessor to the Illinois Institute of Technology. He entered military service in August, 1939 as an aviation cadet. He graduated from flight school in May, 1940, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps Reserve. He served at several air fields with the 15th Bombardment Squadron and the 17th Bombardment Squadron prior...

Power, Thomas S. (Thomas Sarsfield), 1905-

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas S. Power : oral history, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122619630 Thomas Sarsfield Power (1905-1970 was an American military officer who served as both Vice-Commander and Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Command. Born on June 18, 1905 in New York City, he graduated from Barnard School for Boys and entered the Air Corps flying school in 1928, receiving his commission as a second lieut...

Sweeney, Walter C. (Walter Campbell), 1909-1965

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Walter Campbell Sweeney (1909-1965) was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in June, 1930. He graduated from primary and advanced flight schools in 1935, and was assigned to the 8th Attack Squadron of the 3rd Attack Group at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. During the World War II era, Sweeney joined the 5th Bomb Group in Hawaii in June, 1939, and later served as Commandi...

Disosway, Gabriel P. (Gabriel Pollion), 1910-2001

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