Japanese kamikaze suicide pilot divers attack hospital ship USS Comfort (AH-6), during action off Okinawa, Japan. Damaged USS Comfort. A sign : 'U.S. Navy ship, USS Comfort'. Wounded nurses and casualties are carried and transfered to a van. Burial services are held at a military cemetery on Guam: coffins draped with the flags of the United States are carried to the cemetery. The nurses who treated the casualties shown mourning. The flag draped coffins. Graves of the Americans and the flag of the United States at the Guam cemetery. (World War II period).
British and United States carrier-based planes bomb Okinawa. United States Navy in action. Battleships at sea. Aircraft taking off from flight deck of the battleship. Men watch the planes. Aircraft drop bombs on the Japanese ships. Smoke arises due to the bombarding. Soldiers fire from battleship at the enemy planes. Enemy planes set in flames. Map points the target areas and the United States base for attack against Japan. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Bombing the air fields of Okinawa. High altitude view of the air fields. (World War II period).
Aerial view of shot Able, the first test of the United States Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll. Bright flash followed by rising mushroom cloud after bomb explodes. Blast wave seen overtaking unmanned test ships in the ocean.
During bombardment on Luzon, Philippines during Battle of Luzon, World War 2. U.S. Navy ships underway, supporting Lingayen Gulf landings. Ships at sea. Various views both close-up and distant of USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burning and consumed in fire and smoke following hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft. Huge clouds of smoke rising from the aircraft carrier. Aircraft seen on flight deck. Support ships attempting to render aid and fight fires on the USS Ommaney Bay as it burns.
Bombardment on Luzon, Philippines during World War 2. Destroyer underway at sea. U.S. sailors watch through binoculars. Various U.S. Navy ships in the background supporting Lingayen Gulf Landings early in the Battle of Luzon. Destroyers, LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) and battleships underway.
Clip shows several still images extracted from moving images of the USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) burning in the Sulu Sea off the shore of Luzon, Philippines, following a strike by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft during World War 2. The moving film from which the stills were extracted can be seen at clips 65675072050 and 65675072051. Several stills of the USS Ommaney Bay burning. Stills of navy sailors watching through binoculars and additional destroyer and support ships in the background.
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