we've just received reports that large groups of soviet aircraft have been sighted over germany france denmark the netherlands and belgium our initial reports show that bombs have been dropped on airfields near hamburg frankfurt big bird and first and fell brooke as well as amsterdam brussels and tool reports are still coming in showing extensive  tokyo more information apollo that does it all air defense and see if they have an established pattern of attack it on north america stand by for a conference call our base yes in their defense this is offense control the president has authorized the joint chiefs to give the all of your forces to proceed to target release quickstrike repeat you are authorized to give the order to proceed to assign targets release launch all available missiles i'm these proceed to target orders make sure you get the word to everyone i don't want anyone turning back because we couldn't contact him yes are you ready on the conference call as sir general turner all units all quick strike aircraft proceed to assign targets i say again all quick strike aircraft proceed to assign targets attention missile sites the bulk of the alert force took off from these bases in the united states to carry out their full war plan missions based with the take off base areas for the forces in the united states the rest were launched from overseas most of the aircraft already ploys of forward operating bases are tankers some of the medium bombers took off from intermediate bases and from the united kingdom north africa those aircraft taking off from forward bases will approach the soviet early warning radar net shown here by the dotted line in less than one half hour lead aircraft of these other attacking forces make sure the weather people are spending right when this briefing is over i want to complete recheck of the weather in our refueling areas yes the main attack will continue those efforts and strike all elements of his air power one hour after penetrating the net lead aircraft will be at the position shown by this line remember this is a bomb as you go concept targets or bomb progressively shall targets first with the strike continuing to deeper targets this enhanced as the penetration capability of succeeding waves this pattern is essential because we are playing the soviets game he picked the time of day he knows where coming we must use every trick to overwhelm him this line shows the positions of lead and craft two hours after the first penetration targets in these areas will come under attack from the succeeding waves in the third hour after crossing the early warning that the leaders of the first penetration will progress to these positions and will go on to strike targets in this last area go ahead air defense this is offense control the hostiles are beginning to establish a pattern of attack there appears to be three main thrusts one in the northeast one slightly east of center and one in the northwest we're throwing everything at them either some missiles but we estimate that there will be enemy bombers over loring and fairchild in as little as forty five minutes he may have less time if they get any help from the jet stream that is all conference call also call operations tell him to have my plane and take off position in fifteen minutes