USS Saidor passes by. Four navy cadets play deck tennis and few others do routine physical exercises. Sailors fishing over side of ship. Two personnel sitting on deck reading letters.
'A' bomb explosion on Able Day during Operation Crossroads in Bikini Atoll. Night view of the explosion and smoke. A mushroom cloud of white smoke and dust moves upwards during the day. U.S. Navy personnel watch the explosion.
View of black smoke emitted from smokestack of Torpedo Boat 'Morris' running in water in Newport . Sailors with hats aboard. Torpedo boat discharges a white head torpedo.
U.S. Lockheed PV-1 Ventura airplane shooting touch and go landings in the Pacific during World War II. Several aircraft landing. PV-1 Ventura taxiing. Palm trees on each side of the runway. Weather instruments atop control tower. Pilot holding a chart and discussing matters with crew and passengers, as they stand in front of a Douglas R4D transport airplane. Writing on a PV-1 aircraft reads 'Blonde Blitz'. Pilot and co-pilot sitting in the cockpit. Palm trees in the background. The Douglas C-47 Sweet Leilani of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron, a.k.a. the Thirsty 13th, taxiing out for takeoff. Crew members unloading material from PV-1. Black Scottish Terrier (Scottie) dog chewing coconut. Crew loading material in truck. Two aircrew shake hands in front of an airplane with name "Scooters Dream" painted on its fuselage. Ground crew loading belt ammunition in a PV-1 airplane.
F4U Corsairs 13 and 14 of U.S. Marine Corps Squadron VMF-124 land at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, and taxi to park in front of the control tower, during World War 2. Pilot, Lieutenant Kenneth A. Walsh (future Medal of Honor recipient) climbs down from his Corsair 13, named 'Viva!' Pilot of Corsair 14 talks with ground crew after landing. The pilots are picked up by a jeep. Two F4F aircraft land at the field. Ground crewmen work on F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft. Crew works on 50 caliber gun on F4F plane.
U.S. Marines are hunkered down in sand on Eniwetok, as a shell fired by a nearby tank bursts. They then get up and follow the tank forward. Camera focuses on several Landing Vehicles, Tracked (LVT) AKA amphtracks moving across desolate landscape of broken trees and debris. Marine infantry moving across the area past an overturned vehicle and searching for remaining Japanese defenders. Two marines fire their rifles into a heap of debris. Four marines carry a wounded comrade on a litter. Others administer blood plasma to a wounded marine lying on the ground. An M3 Stuart light tank moving slowly with some marine infantry behind it. Slate is interjected reading: "Snipers are blasted from their holes." Marines are seen poking rifles into hiding places and preparing grenades for use. Grenade charges exploding.
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