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A group of citizens visits the U.S. Aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal.

The USS Forrestal is seen tied up at a pier in her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. View of a metal plaque reading: U.S.S. Forrestal CVA-59. Rear Admiral, Charles D. Griffin, Commander of Carrier Division 4, welcomes the visitors aboard the Forrestal (his flagship). Scene shifts to the aircraft carrier deck, where numerous McDonnell F3H-2 Demon aircraft are parked. View of visitors on the flight deck near the Island with many aircraft parked with wings folded in background. The narrator visitor seen with his guide, Lieutenant Kirk Carter. Nose view of an A4D-2 aircraft of VA-72 (Hawks), being worked on by plane captain. Hawks painted on the nose. Red shirt armorers loading ammunition. The civilian guests conversing with ship's personnel. Ship's captain, Richard E. Kibbe, talking with a visitor. The order to cast off being sent from the bridge. Ship's company lined up in formation in dress whites. A group of Blue shirt flight deck crewmen conversing. View of a landing mirror landing aid. View from the air, of the Forrestal underway. Some AD-6 Skyraider aircraft start engines, with wings folded. A Piasecki HUP-2 helicopter preparing for takeoff. Several Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aircraft are catapulted from the Forrestal. The Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Boston (CAG-1) passing the Forrestal.

Date: 1958
Duration: 4 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042339
Douglas A4D aircraft from the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) demonstrates Loft bombing technique

View from deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Forrestal (CV-59) as a U.S. Navy Douglas A4 D aircraft demonstrates Loft bombing (AKA tossed bombing). The aircraft pulls up as if beginning a loop, and then releases the bomb as the aircraft starts to reverse direction inverted. The bomb is seen in flight leaving a condensation trail.

Date: 1958
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042340
A U.S. Navy Douglas AD-5 aircraft tosses a bomb at a ground target

A United States Douglas AD-5 SkyRaider releases a bomb toward a land target after taking off from United States aircraft carrier Forrestal. The bomb drops leaving a pink colored smoke trail behind. Bomb impact and an explosion occurs.

Date: 1958
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042341
Regulus missile being launched from submarine USS Barbero (SS-317)

The surfaced submarine USS Barbero (SS-317) seen from the deck of the USS Forrestal, with a U.S. warship behind it. The Barbero prepares and fires a SSM-N-8A Regulus missile. Closeup of a regulus missile with launcher on deck of the Barbero. it launches with smoke streaming from its twin rocket booster engines.

Date: 1959
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042345
The USS Coral Sea practices radiation washdown at sea

The Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CV-43), is almost totally obscured by water and vapor clouds during a practice atomic radiation washdown, at sea.

Date: 1956
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042346
View of the USS Nautilus, underway on the surface of the sea.

USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, is seen from an overflying aircraft, as it plows ahead at high speed, on the surface of the sea.

Date: 1956
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042347