United States aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) being attacked by a Japanese bomber in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A United States convoy underway in the Pacific off the coast of Japan. A naval gun being fired and smoke rises. A Japanese aircraft explodes in mid air and spins as it tumbles toward the ocean. Flak bursts in the air. A Japanese dive bomber descends and drops bombs over USS Franklin. Huge explosions and smoke rises from the ship. Crew aboard the ship fight fire as they spray water from hoses. Chaplain Father Joseph O'Callahan prays over a mortally wounded sailor. Injured being transferred onto another ship. A dead American sailor. Rescue ships take away wounded. Smoke rises from the ship. Sailors being transferred onto another ship and the ship pulls away.
German submarine U-234, after her surrender and capture by the U.S. Forces in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at the conclusion of World War 2 in Europe. U-234 underway on the surface with YT (tugboats) alongside. Portsmouth Lighthouse in the background. The submarine surfaces and is flanked by the tugboats. The submarine crew members stand on a dock while American sailors guard them with rifles. German Major General Ulrich Kessler and other officers exit a U.S. Coast Guard cutter via a gangway. The officers walk along the dock at Portsmouth. German prisoners walk along the dock. The prisoners carry their gear as they come onto the dock. U-234 had been carrying plans for advanced weapon systems and uranium oxide, and had been bound for Japan.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. United States Marines aboard a ship as they head towards Iwo Jima. A Catholic Mass being conducted aboard USS Talladega (APA-208). Marines with their heads lowered as a Chaplain conducts mass. Marines read from a holy book. Marines relax on the deck of the ship.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. United States Marines aboard a ship as they head towards Iwo Jima. Marines debark into a landing craft from a ship. Marines climb down a landing net and and get into small barges to go ashore to Iwo Jima. Marines come down the net and into a barge. Marines loaded in a LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) and in a LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) as they head towards the beach.
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) loaded with Marines of the 5th Marine Division underway towards the beach. Mount Suribachi and coast of Iwo Jima in the background. Point of view shots from camera position inside landing craft as it approaches beach landing. Close up views of Marines on board as they ready for beach landing. Smoke rises from Mt Suribachi as explosions occur. LVTs (Landing Vehicles Tracked) underway in water. Destroyer and battleships in the background. Coast of Iwo Jima as LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) comes close to the shore. Rockets burst on the beach in the background. Marines in a LCM as it hits the beach. Bow ramp of the LCM being lowered and Marines go ashore.
Causalities during the invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. United States 5th Marines Division, 5th Medical Battalion,C Company corpsmen transfer litter wounded on a pontoon barge from a LST (Landing ship Tank). A stretcher casualty hoisted from tank deck of LST through an open hatch. Casualties on litters being lowered to pontoon barge alongside the LST. Corpsmen load litters onto a pontoon barge. A crane operator operates a large crane on the deck of LST.