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U.S. Navy bathyscaphe "Trieste" reaches a record breaking depth of about 37,000 feet in the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean.

United States Navy bathyscaphe "Trieste", which is a sumbersible deep diving research boat, seen underway in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guam. It reaches a record breaking depth of about 37,000 feet in the Mariana Trench, which is the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust.

Date: 1960, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056200
U.S. Naval Task Force 58, including USS Yorktown attacked by a Japanese Kawanishi H8K flying boat in the Pacific.

USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early 1944: Animated map shows the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The U.S. Naval fleet advances from Truk Islands towards an advanced naval base in the Marshall Islands, taken from the Japanese. U.S. ships underway around the fleet anchorage. U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers, battleships, cruisers, fleet auxiliaries and support ships. Crew and aircraft on the flight deck of the 'Fighting Lady' CV-10. The crew members relax and enjoy themselves in the water. They dive and jump off a makeshift platforms and diving boards into the ocean, and then swim and play around large floating rafts. Sailors sort letters in the ship's post office. Some write letters back home. The crew assembled on the ship deck. Commander of the ship Rear Admiral Joseph James 'Jacko' Clark briefs the crew about their mission, designation to Task Force 58, and advance towards Tokyo. The USS Yorktown and other carriers of the Task Force underway. Sign boards for various Ready Rooms on the ship. Air Group Commanders and pilots ready on call. Rear seat gunners and radio men on call in another Ready Room nearby. They talk, relax, drink Coca-Cola and have ice cream. Flags on board. Commander of the TF 58 Admiral Marc Andrew 'Pete' Mitscher and Skipper Clark on the flight deck. A poster for the ship board movie 'Home in Indiana'. Sailors watch the movie. Planes in flight through clouds, the Task Force underway seeking the Imperial Japanese Naval fleet. New cruisers, Coast Guard cutters and Navy Transports in the Task Force. The patrol spots a Imperial Japanese Navy search plane, a Kawanishi H8K flying boat called 'Emily' by the Allies. The plane fires at the Task Force ships before being hit and sinking in the water. U.S. officers and sailors in a discussion. An animated map depicts the objective to move towards and free the Mariana Islands.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021562
U.S. campaigns against Japanese in Marshal Islands, New Britain, and Rabaul, in the Pacific during World War II

U.S. offensives against Japan in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. A United States Carrier Task Force in the Pacific Ocean. Fighter planes and dive bombers on the deck of the Task Force. Sailors push trolleys containing bombs. A map shows Marshall Islands. Douglas Dauntless dive bombers take off to strike against the enemy. U.S. Navy fighter planes engage defending Japanese aircraft and down many of them, as seen in gun camera footage. The first wave of Douglas Dauntless dive bombers returns to its carrier for refueling, rearming, and debriefing. Sailors on the aircraft carrier man anti-aircraft guns to defend against attacking Japanese aircraft. Black flak fills the sky and a number of Japanese aircraft are destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire. A Japanese bomb explodes near the flight deck of a carrier. (Narrator notes that 85 Japanese aircraft were destroyed in this one operation.)An animated map shows New Britain Island. U.S. Major General William Henry Rupertus, Commander of U.S. Marines on a ship. He looks through a pair of binoculars as a U.S. planes (B-24 Liberators) drop bombs on Rabaul. U.S. warships launch an attack at the enemy positions. Fire and explosions. The Marines load into landing craft and move towards the shore. They land behind an intense naval bombardment. Marines head ashore from beached LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), number 343. M 16 tanks, equipment, and artillery roll ashore from Landing Ships Tank (LSTs). . The tanks lead the way through the jungle terrain and the marines advance behind them. Marines fire mortars as they advance. They flush out Japanese from trenches and bunkers. A damaged Japanese Mitsubishi fighter plane and wreckage of others. Some dead Japanese soldiers. The Marines wade through deep water as they push on to Rabaul. Others advance through deep mud. More views of them slogging through mud.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033572
Troops make amphibious landings and injured soldiers are treated on a Pacific island.

Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068433
A U.S. aircraft takes off from an aircraft carrier and Japanese bombers drop bombs on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean.

The Battle of Saipan during World War II. An aircraft in flight over Saipan, Mariana Islands . An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. aircraft on the deck. A signal officer gives a signal. The aircraft taxi and take off one after the other. The aircraft in flight. Japanese bombers drop bombs and attack a task force. The bombers drop bombs over U.S. ships. Smoke rises due to bombardment. A smoke screen is formed. The aircraft carrier underway. A bomber aircraft drops bombs. The deck of the carrier. A U.S. aircraft crashes while landing on the deck. Crew members run and approach the aircraft.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069118
Technician uses microscope to examine core samples core sample aboard oceanic survey vessel in Pacific Ocean

Laboratory aboard oceanic survey vessel in Pacific Ocean. Technician scrapes small amount of mud from a core sample, and examines it under a microscope.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031522
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