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Men throw oil abatement product on water with flammable products and move on the deck of USS Compton offshore Newport.

The oil abatement product on the surface of water with more being sprayed. Crewmen dump bags of the abatement product into the hopper of the machine. Crewmen on the fantail. The product being sprayed on water. Life lines in the foreground. Two men stand by ready to use a flame thrower in an attempt to light the oil. The flame thrower is turned on. It throws flames over the water surface with no effect. Officers and men talk over the fantail of the destroyer. Two crewmen work around gear in card board boxes on the deck. Four crewmen on the deck of USS Compton. A man with a bucket which is used to dump kerosene over side. A man with a bag of the oil abatement product pouring it out over the ship's side. Men pour the product over the side. Military people and civilians near the life lines. Smoke on the water in the background. An officer lights a torch using a piece of wood and throws it over the side to float on water. A flare floats on the surface and burns. The flare burns in the midst of the oil abatement product on the surface with an attempt to set the product on fire along with the oil. An officer throws an object on water. An officer along the deck edge. An orange flare in the hand of an officer. Men on focsle of USS Compton. The flare burns on water as men continue to light the oil abatement product and oil. A man at the deck edge plays a flame thrower down over the water surface. Officers enter. A man holding a flame thrower looks over the side.

Date: 1970, May 20
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068271
Black smoke and flame rises from USS Mississinewa (AO-59) as it is hit by a Kaiten Kamikaze torpedo in Ulithi.

USS Mississinewa burns after being hit by a Kaiten Kamikaze torpedo in the Ulithi harbor during World War II. The black smoke and flame rises from USS Mississinewa. Smoke in sky from the burning ship. Smoke and flames rise from burning ship. Destroyers underway in the background. The ship burns. A U.S. soldier in the foreground. He points out at the burning USS Mississinewa. Two soldiers look at the ship as it burns. Black smoke and flame rises from the burning ship. A soldier looks at USS Mississinewa Tracers fire in sky. Smoke and flames rise.

Date: 1944, November 20
Duration: 3 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069327
A tanker burns at Ulithi harbor and a destroyer drops depth charges with explosions behind the ship during World War I

The U.S. task force advances in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A tanker burns in the Ulithi harbor. Black smoke pouring up from the ship. Other ships surround the area. The tanker burns. A Destroyer drops ash cans (depth charges). Explosions going off behind another ship.

Date: 1944
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069334
U.S. Navy aircraft making use of new airstrip at Ulithi Atoll in World War II

Three crew members stand on deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier, anchored off Ulithi Atoll during World War 2. One holds an anemometer, with its buckets spinning. A TBF avenger aircraft on deck ready to be catapulted. It launches and is seen flying away above a variety of naval vessels at anchor. View from an aircraft flying fast and low, past Ulithi Atoll. A TBF avenger landing on the Ulithi airstrip. (Note: At TC 00:28 through 00:36, the Destroyer Tender, USS Prairie AD15, is seen with several destroyers tied to it. She rescued survivors from the sinking of the Oiler, USS Mississinewa, AO-59, by a Japanese Kaiten suicide submarine, on November 20, 1944.)

Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069716
U.S. Navy aircraft making use of new airstrip at Ulithi Atoll, during construction in World War II

A quad 50 (4-50 caliber machine guns) mounted on a U.S. Army vehicle at the shore at Ulithi Atoll, during World War 2. A C-47 (Navy R4D) parked on airstrip with Seabees at work with trucks in background. A PBY Catalina amphibian plane being serviced. An F6F parked on sand in makeshift revetment. Another one coming in for a landing. The landing F6F on ground roll as a steam roller passes in foreground. Navy F6F aircraft arriving, from aircraft carriers, and being parked. Numerous Navy aircraft, including SB2C Helldivers and F6F Hellcats, parked with wings folded on the airstrip, while construction work continues. Men recover items from a crashed F6F, as smoke rises in background. They work to prevent fire around the crashed plane. Hoses are stretched around the plane and one man holds a pressure nozzle.

Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069718
U.S. air operations at newly built airstrip on Ulithi Atoll in World War II

During World War 2, three pilots of Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) stand in front of Billboard displaying their squadron symbol of a red devil with spear and cape. It also displays silhouettes of Japanese ships they had struck. View of the newly constructed airstrip at Ulithi, as an F6F aircraft takes off. It is followed, in turn, by a C-47 (R4D),a PBY, and another F6F. Aerial view of Ulithi and the new broad runway running across the atoll.

Date: 1944, December 6
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069719