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The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) pulls into Balboa pier, Panama

The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt.(CVA-42) Three sailors on the signal bridge talk to each other. One sailor in the background sends out semaphore as he waves two flags. Inside a ship office, a clerk typist transcribes correspondence. flight deck control officer gives instructions referring to a model of the flight deck ("Ouija board"), Pilots in ready room,converse.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1949, March 22
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048880
Survivors from the USS Hornet, are transferred from the USS Russell to the cruiser USS Northampton during World War II.

Battle of Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. Survivors from the abandoned aircraft carrier USS Hornet, CV-8, are being transferred, from the port side of the USS Russell, DD-414 (one of the destroyers that rescued them) to the starboard side of the cruiser USS Northampton (CL-26), by means of lines and breeches buoy. After several are transferred, this way, some wounded on litters are also transferred. Initial views are toward the Russell's stern, from the deck of the Northampton, where sailors are handling lines. Camera pans as survivors move across the space between the ships and are lowered to the Northampton deck. View from Northampton toward bow of Russell, showing two of her single turret 8-inch guns (one pointed up) as a litter passes between the ships. (Camera changes viewpoint occasionally.) An officer transfers on a bosun chair, followed by a sailor. In the final seconds, the USS Salt Lake City (CV-25) is seen in the background.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1942, October 26
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049023
A sunken ship and a Navy airship are seen as a minesweeper works off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.

Mine sweeping training off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. United States Navy Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper underway in Atlantic off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. A mast of a sunken ship at sea. A U.S. Navy airship in flight.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1943, August 20
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049217
Methods and process of planting marine mines from a Coast Artillery Mine Planter vessel, before World War 2

A training film about planting antisubmarine mines. Scenes aboard the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Mine Planter Vessel, "General J.M. Schofield," in U.S. coastal waters, pre World War 2. Mine number 10 and an anchor are lowered into the water over the side of planter vessel. An animation shows a mine planter's movement while planting a mine in relation to the Distribution Box (DB) boat. A yawl comes and measures the level of submergence of the mine and puts a flag on its top. An animation shows the underwater position of a mine. A man connects various cables to the distribution box. An animation shows the manner in which planter comes back to DB boat and plants mine number 9. Mine number 9 lowered into the water over the side of a mine planter. Cable from figure of eight released over the stern. A yawl comes in and measures the level of submergence of the mine. An animation shows the movement of a reel. Another animation shows the mine planter maneuvering and planting various other mines. A man attaches cables to distribution box. Box covered and pulled up on a hook and then carried to the bow. Distribution box being released into the water over the side of the boat.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1939
Duration: 9 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049268
Training film illustrates operation of a remote-controlled planted minefield in coastal waters

Pre-World War 2 training film contains animated description about control and operation of a mine field containing deep planted mines in domestic coastal waters. It shows observing stations on the shore sighting mine positions and that information being translated to a plotting board in a control room. Illustration of vessel being targeted by a controlled mine. Views of mines being tested against obsolete warships. Illustration of submerged submarine with planted mines in the vicinity. A mine explosion. Several battleships underway.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049269
A torpedo dropped from a German torpedo bomber aircraft strikes a mine during World War 2

In World War II: A man pulls a lever of type used to release a torpedo from a German plane in flight. View of German torpedo bomber biplane float plane in flight. View as torpedo is dropped from the German torpedo bomber aircraft. View of torpedo running in water just below surface. Torpedo hits a mine and an explosion occurs at sea. Giant water plume from explosion.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1943, April 6
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049295
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