A 1950 United States Naval Training Film about the 1942 Battle of Coral Sea in World War II. Film titled 'The Battle of The Coral Sea'. Diagram shows the location of Coral Sea on the globe. Phase I of the battle from 1st to 4th May described. II Phase from 4th to 7th May explained. III Phase 7th to 11th May, of the battle that saw double action from both sides discussed. Animation shows the area captured by Japan after the battle. Japanese cut communication between United States and Australia. Japanese battleship at sea. Japanese troops in field. Doolittle raid on japan, U.S. plan described through animation. Bombing of Tokyo. Japanese Commander in Chief Admiral Yamamoto on ship. Location of Commandant 4th Fleet. Japanese Commander gives information about U.S. planes. He talks about plans and strategies of U.S. for war. Allied forces on Japanese land. United States submarines in Japan. Japanese plan of defense explained. Two invasion forces of Japan, Moresby and Tulagi described through animation. Allies counter attack Japanese targets. Allied TF 17 and TF 11 in Japanese province. Allied attack on Tulagi, Japanese counter attack.
Wingless P-38 plane under assembling process in Australia.Assembling of P-38 plane in Australia. Soldier mechanics clean the outer body of the plane. Wingless plane carried out. Huge crane lifts the wingless plane completely. (World War II period).
Troop transport ships loaded with American Expeditionary Forces troops at dock in Australia during World War 2. Troops wave and cheer. A line of U.S. Army women from the Women's Nurses Corps waves from a ship as it docks. A rescued Japanese pilot talks with U.S. soldiers on the deck of an American vessel. The pilot is offered a cigarette. He smokes the cigarette and talks to American sailors. Army nurses at an American base in Australia. View of a hospital wound dressing station at the base. Patients in waiting room and on beds in the hospital. A surgery is performed inside an operating room. The nurses play with koala bears and kangaroos at a local zoo. American antiaircraft (AA) units on full alert. Troops take positions inside camouflaged gun emplacements and sandbagged bunkers. Antiaircraft and mortar crew take their positions. American fighter planes take off from an airfield. AA gun are fired on Japanese planes.
Assembling of P-38 plane in Australia. Soldier mechanics clean and grease various engine parts. Several other soldiers open boxes and take out the parts of wing section and assemble them together. (World War II period).
Partial P-38 plane on lake freighter in Australia. Huge crane lifts the wingless plane completely. P-38 plane is loaded on the lake freighter. Freighter moves. Wingless P-38 plane is off-loaded from the freighter. Tractors pull wingless P-38 planes along a road.
Assembled P-38 plane in Australia. A pilot walks towards the plane. Puts on the parachute pack and climbs up in the plane. He then checks the plane while people gather around the plane outside field.