1968 USAF "SURVIVE TO FIGHT" NUCLEAR COMBAT OPERATIONS AT SAC/ADC BASES POSTATTACK

USAF AIR DEFENSE COMMAND OPERATIONS DURING NUCLEAR ATTACK "SURVIVING TO FIGHT" (1968) STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND AND NORAD TRAINING FILM

THIS FILM SHOWS A SMALL BOMBER INTERCEPTOR BASE DURING  DEFCON 2 STATUS THE SCRAMBLE HORN SOUNDS  (F-101 VOODOO) FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR AIRCRAFT GET AIRBORNE TO ATTACK INCOMING BOMBERS AS DEFCON 1 IS DECLARED. SHORTLY AFTERWARD THE BASE IS HIT BY A NUCLEAR WEAPON DAMAGING BUT NOT KNOCKING OUT ITS COMMAND AND CONTROL. THE USAF SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF PREPARATION PREPARDNESS AS THIS FILM SHOWS THE DAYS BEFORE AS WAR IS IMMINENT BASE OPERATIONS START DISPERSAL OF ASSETS AND THE BUILDING OF EASY TO BUILD SANDBAG CONEX CONTAINER FALLOUT AND BLAST SHELTERS WHICH SAVES THE OPERATIONS STAFF WHO MAN THE AIR BASE COMMAND CENTER. THEY GO ABOUT BATTLING BASE FIRES AND RADIOLOGICAL OPS, DECONTAMINATION, ALL IN PREPARATION FOR THE RETURN OF THE INTERCEPTOR OR OTHER USAF AIRCRAFT TO MAKE IT TO THE BASE FOR REARM AND REFUEL AND BATTLE THEY DO FIXING THE PRIMARY ALERTING AND COMMUNICATION LINES KNOCKED OUT DURING THE DETONATION OF A SOVIET WARHEAD, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BATTLES THE FIRESTORMS AROUND THE BASE AND GETS TOO MUCH OF A DOSE REQUIRING MEDICAL AID, AS WE SEE THE WEARY FIRE CREWS HEAD TO THE COMMAND BUNKER THE f-101s ARE ABLE TO MAKE IT BACK AND HEAD OUT TO FIGHT AND PROTECT SOME MORE SHOWING THE VALUBLE SACRIFICES OF THE AIRMEN WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE.

        GREAT COLD WAR DOD TRAINING FILM BUT IN 1968 THE USAF WAS CUTTING BACK SAC AIR DEFENSE COMMAND BASES (SUFFOLK COUNTY 1969)AND WAS CUTTING THE AIRBORNE ALERTS ETC,THE FILM SHOWS AIRMEN OPERATING IN OD FATIGUES WITH MASKING TAPE AROUND POCKETS AND ZIPPERS TO KEEP OUT RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES, KINDA NOT TOO SMART BUT IT IS ONLY A TRAINING FILM ALTHOUGH THE TRAINING FILM IS TEXT BOOK USAF NUCLEAR ATTACK OPERATIONS AND A GEM IN THE COLD WAR HISTORY OF THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND AND SHOWS THE DETERMINATION OF US MILITARY FORCES TO SURVIVE THE MISSION THAT BACK THEN WAS THE USE OF THIS NATIONS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND PROTECTION OF AMERICA FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND ANY ENEMY DUMB ENOUGH TO ATTACK IT.

 

USAF STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND "SURVIVE TO FIGHT" POST ATTACK OPERATIONS

AT A AIR DEFENSE COMMAND BASE OUTLINING CLASSIC COLD WAR BATTLE PLANS