Aircraft carrier USS Wasp being launched in the United States during World War II. USS Wasp decorated before being launched. Sons of the naval officers who lost their lives in the Battle of Guadalcanal at the launching ceremony. A bottle of champagne being broken at the bow of the carrier as the ship is launched. The ship takes to water.
A trotting race in Goshen, New York. Hambletonian trot race gets underway as horses trot around the race track and spectators cheer. Best of three races being conducted to decide the winner. Volo Song wins the race.
Allied leaders meet in Quebec, Canada during World War II. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs as they discuss. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall and U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King and other Allied officers stand behind the leaders. An aircraft taxis and Chinese Foreign Secretary T.V. Soong gets off the aircraft. Prime Minister Mackenzie receives Soong at the airport. Prime Minister Churchill smokes a cigar and President Roosevelt smiles. Allied military officers confer around a table. General George C. Marshal and others confer.
U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft bombard Japanese positions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A map of the area. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight over islands in the Pacific. The aircraft fly in formation. A Japanese cruiser underway at sea. The cruiser being bombed. A gun sight aiming point view of the cruiser being strafed. Explosions occur at sea. Enemy barges being attacked by the aircraft. Smoke rises at sea. U.S. aircraft bomb Munda Airfield. Smoke rises from the shoreline of the Munda island. Bombs being released over Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands. Bombs impact and columns of smoke rise.
A picture of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito in a Japanese newspaper. Two periscopes come above the water. A Japanese submarine surfaces in the center of a bay and abruptly turns to port. Officers stand on conning tower. Two men converse below deck in a lounge area.A launch comes alongside a floating dock. A crewman jumps down to secure the launch. Several Japanese officers leave the launch and ascend a ramp from the dock.
USS Ortolan salvages a Japanese submarine off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A man puts on a diving mask. He jumps into water. He removes the diving mask. U.S. Navy Captain Holland and Captain A.F. Loger at Japanese books. Holland thumbs through Japanese code books. The bow of USS Ortolan in the choppy sea.
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