View from deck of a Japanese battleship looking back at three Japanese aircraft carriers underway. during World War 2. Interior view of compartment in Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku Ship's intercom loudspeaker calls pilots to a mission. Airplanes with engines running on the flight deck of the carrier. The planes ready for take off. Pilot prays at shinto shrine below decks, before mission briefing. Japanese flight commander briefs the pilots before take off. Pilots in cockpits. Nakajima B6n1 torpedo planes take off carrying torpedoes underneath (these B6N aircraft were called "Jill" by the Allies). Japanese Imperial Navy sailors watch the planes.
Crash of a Grumman F4F-3 aircraft from U.S. Navy Squadron VF-42, on the carrier, USS Wasp, early in 1941. In a slow motion sequence, a U.S. Navy F4F-3, with F-42-17 painted on its side (BuNo 2537) is seen rounded out too high for landing, above all arresting cables, and drifting into the carrier's island, where it impacts, losing its right wing, and flipping over to crash inverted on the flight deck. Sailors stand in the background. After the aircraft settles, a sailor runs across the deck to render aid. (Note: Navy Squadrons VF-42 and VF-71, assigned to the USS Wasp, received their F4F-3 Wildcats in January and February of 1941 under Bureau of Aeronautics contract C-68219, order number 48-020. These aircraft were painted overall aluminum with VF-42 having willow green tails and VF-71 having black tails. Later in 1941 the aircraft were repainted overall light gray.)
USS Wasp (CV-7) flight operations,prior to World War II. Slow motion sequence, from two different perspectives, of a Grumman F3F-2 Marine Corps aircraft landing on the flight deck. The airplane rounds out high, clips two restraining cables, and stalls, dropping nose first to the deck and falling on right wings, then balancing vertically on its nose, before falling back onto its wheels.
U.S.Navy F4F-3 from Squadron VF-42 (BuNo 2537) crashing on the USS Wasp (CV-7) in 1941, prior to the U.S. entry into World War 2. Slow motion sequence showing the F4F rounding out high during landing and drifting into the island of the aircraft carrier. The right wing strikes the superstructure of the island and breaks off. The F4F collapses, inverted, in pieces, on the flight deck. Several members of the ship's crew hunkered down beside the deck during the accident.
The U.S. Navy submarine, USS George Washington (SSBN-598) fires a ballistic missile, in the Atlantic test range, while submerged. It is seen underwater. The missile leaves the submarine and air bubbles are seen as the missile rises.
View of a German U-boat with a snorkel to its periscope, laying on its deck, during World War 2. The crew actuates control that raises the snorkel to periscope height above the conning tower. Views of U-boat submerging and of the snorkel plowing through the water ahead of the boat's periscope. Below, in the control room, the Captain looks through his periscope and sees several ships ahead. Closeup of one ship dead ahead. U-boat crewman adjusts fire control equipment. View of the snorkel moving through the water. A torpedo strikes the target ship and sinks it. The U-boat submerges.
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