The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. Tanks, artillery guns and antiaircraft guns manufactured in big numbers at munition factories of Allied nations. Stacks of artillery barrels and railway engines at various factories. Cranes in operation at the factories. Military supply trucks at a factory inspected by a British Military officer. Tanks and artillery guns ready for the battle. Workers at a munition factory make and stack artillery shells. Guided bombs attached to planes at a base. Dogfights in the sky to keep German bomber way from the bases. Barrage balloons in sea above the fleet of warships. A sailor drops anti ship mine in the sea. Minesweepers seek and destroy such mines from the sea.
The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. Ships and war boats at British harbor carry ammunition and warfare materials. Landing Craft Vehicles (LCV) and DUKW ready at the harbor for invading France.
An F6F Hellcat ditches in the sea. It floats long enough to allow pilot to abandon it before sinking. Next an A-4 Skyhawk ditches. Narrator remarks about the short time for escape from such aircraft on the surface of the water. Views of tests conducted by the U.S. Navy to test the sink rates of jet aircraft from various heights and attitudes. A dummy is placed in the cockpit of a derelict F9F Panther, which is lifted by a crane and is dropped into water from a low height. It is seen floating. (Narrator states that even with no structural damage, it sinks in less than a minute.) Next an FJ-2 Fury is dropped from about 55 feet. Due to structural damage, narrator states such an aircraft may sink in a few seconds, and generally between zero to 55 seconds. View of crane operator and then of an airplane sinking rapidly. Scene shifts to James F. Roth of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron 42,(VA-42) the "Green Pawns," in the closed cockpit of a Navy jet airplane. Next, an F-4 phantom jet is seen being catapulted from an aircraft carrier. Animation shows that the airplane falling into the sea right after takeoff will sink ballistically and can descend as deep as 100 feet in 10 seconds.
Animation shows method of escape from a jet when it submerges in water. It shows how the pilot has to come out from the cockpit in case of emergency. Pilot tests the method of escape from the jet in case of emergency. He takes the model of cockpit in the water reservoir made for the purpose. Then he ejects himself from the canopy, leaves the cockpit and ascends to the surface. Information given to the pilot: disconnect yourself, leave cockpit, ascend to the surface.
Pilot in the cockpit. He stands to disconnect himself from the cockpit. There are three points which have to be disconnected. Cockpit submerged in water. Pilot disconnects himself.
Pilot disconnects himself from the cockpit. Cameraman recording the whole process. Pilot ascends to the surface. Pilot moves forward and tries to leave the cockpit.
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