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Ever ready to move into action on a moment’s notice, in case of war or other emergency, they also undertake routine peacetime production assignments and shoot more than half a million feet of 35mm negative a year.
AERIAL DOLLY — Lt. Gary Kent and S. Sgt. Elton K. Fernald make good use of Air Force helicopter to photograph western missile sites in the U.S. for the Department of Defense.
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AIR FORCE'S FIRE BRIGADE CAMERAMEN
“JlIIS IS A COMBAT-TRAINED, bat
A tie-ready crew of skilled cam¬ eramen who, in case of war or national emergency, could move into action on a moment’s notice. You might say we’re the reserve manpower ‘Fire Brigade’ or ‘Go’ element of the Air Photographic and Charting Service.”
With this statement Capt. Robert H. Jung, commanding officer of Detachment 2 of the 1352nd Pho¬ tographic Group (headquartered at Colorado Springs, Colorado), sums up the function of his team of rough-and-ready Air Force cam¬ eramen. Described in more detail, that function may include filming in the Communist-menaced jungles of Viet-Nam, in a vast tunnel hun¬ dreds of feet underground, inside a nuclear reactor, in supersonic aircraft or in the depths of missile silos where explosive destruction is a constant hazard.
Of the 70 men, all military, who comprise the detachment, 28 are motion picture cameramen, 19 are still photographers and the re¬ mainder are sound technicians, camera repairmen and supply per¬ sonnel. Working in small camera crews they operate within the con¬ tinental United States from Salt Lake City, LTtah, east to Little Rock, Arkansas, and North and South from the Canadian to the
AIR FORCE cameraman Billy R. Cooksey receives assistance with his Arriflex camera as he prepares to shoot aerial footage from back seat of a T-33 jet.
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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, FEBRUARY, 1963