Arrival of equipment and setting of Nike, Southern Okinawa Part 1

Description

97th AAA officers get out of copter at site, look around area and then board a Marine copter. Officers get out of copter and tour site at the Sukiran airstrip. Officers checking the area around Site #4B. Two officers check teh temporary launcher pad site #4B. An officer speaks to a civilian workman, a foreman. Scenes of construction being done by native labor. Officers get back into helicopter. Nike Site #8B, Naha AFB. Launcher pad arriving on semitrailer truck. Crane lowers the launcher pad to cement foundation as soldiers assist. Starting to hook up to second launcher with crane. At Machinato Ord area, Nike equipment in wooden boxes is put on Marine helicopter. Following this shot two crates are moved away from the helicopter. Copter taking off, landing at Site #7B and unloading three wooden boxes. At Machinato area, a container is opened and a unit of the missile is pulled out. The caption calls it " Nike Bird". Unloading mobile radar unit control van from the ship Santa Christina. LS taken from ship of other Nike equipment which has been unloaded. Among the inspecting officers who appear are Col. Rumnus, Lt. Col. Moore, Lt. Co. Gude, and the CO of the 97th AAA, Col. Heasty.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection