# EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE FLORIDA 1960s AIR SHOW & F-100 SUPER SABRE AIRCRAFT 88904

Produced by North American Aviation, this 1960s film FIREPOWER shows the annual Eglin Air Force Base air show, featuring WWI, WWII era and post-Korean War jet aircraft. These include the supersonic North American F-100 Super Sabre, which is featured. Mock air strikes are shown on various ranges to simulate railroad yards, depots, and military installations of varying types. B-52 bombers are seen at the 6:00 mark, and B-47s make a massed flyby at the 7:15 mark. Rockets are fired and bombs dropped, and 20mm cannon strafing runs are made against a ground target (some kind of obsolete WWII era aircraft). Napalm is also seen begin employed at the 8:15 mark, with huge strands of bombs dropped on the range. A simulated atomic bomb release is seen at the 9:50 mark, culminating in an air burst. The Thunderbirds flying F-100s are seen at the 10:30 mark. Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: VPS, ICAO: KVPS, FAA LID: VPS) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles (5 kilometers) southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County. The host unit at Eglin is the 96th Test Wing (formerly the 96th Air Base Wing). The 96 TW is the test and evaluation center for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, Command and Control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems. Eglin AFB was established in 1935 as the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base. It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin (1891–1937), who was killed in a…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/88904-fire-power)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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