NATO’s Teeth (1956)

Langstuhl, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). UN forces in Germany put on an air power display for the students of NATO defence College. LV. The formation of six large aircraft flying over the audience. GV. A large group of officers watching from platforms, many have binoculars. LV. Hundreds of parachutes in the sky. GV. Two parachuters coming to ground. SV. Group of American officers walk past camera. SV. Group of officers, including Dutch, British, American and Scottish, chatting. SV. Group of officers chatting. GV. Pan across F aircraft with every death dealing device attached underneath the wing. SV. Group of officers examining rockets under the wing. CV. Pan up lines of machine gun bullets laid neatly on the ground. CV. Bullets stacked in position inside an aircraft. CV. Notice with the following legend “F86F Fighter bomber, range 900 miles, speed over 650 miles per hour, altitude over 40,000 ft. The camera tilts up to the nose of the extraordinary machine. SV. Scottish officer talks to
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