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Activities aboard USS Saginaw Bay.
Pilot climbs aboard TBM. TBM catapulted. Another pilot boards TBM. Pilot signs clearance sheet. TBM spotted on a catapult. TBM lands on carrier deck. TBM pilot dismounts from airplane. Gun crews lounges near guns.
Aircraft takes off from CVE.
Destroyer underway at sea. Aircraft takes off from CVE (aircraft carrier).
Strafing by United States fighter planes
Strafing by United States fighter planes during World War II. Explosions seen. Smoke rises up to the sky.
Aircraft of U.S. Navy Task Force 58, attack Kyūshū and Japanese home islands in World War II
Film begins showing sailors in battle gear manning Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns beside flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier, during World War 2. Navy Task Force 58 ships, including a cruiser and another aircraft carrier, are seen in background. View of SBD Douglas Dauntless dive bomber aircraft on the carrier flight deck. Two have engines running.The rest are parked with wings folded. Next, the aircraft are seen being sent on takeoffs by a white shirt on deck. The number "6" on her flight deck identifies her as the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Views of several Douglas Dauntless aircraft flying off her deck. Glimpse of aircraft in formation from a different Squadron, bearing checkerboard markings on their tails. View from above of 5 of the aircraft in formation above the sea below. Gun camera views of U.S. aircraft strafing Japanese ships. One explodes in fireball and smoke. U.S. aircraft firing rockets that strike a Japanese carrier, setting it on fire, and causing an escort ship to blow up. Task Force 58 aircraft strike Japanese coastal installations and strafe several Japanese airfields destroying parked Japanese aircraft. They attack industrial sites causing fires and explosions. Gun cameras show aircraft firing rockets at lines of communication and striking more Japanese airfields.
U.S. Flamethrower tanks fire at Japanese caves on side of cliffs used as fortifications in Naha.
U.S. 1st Battalion 1st Marines fight Japanese troops in Naha during their advance to Shuri. Marines fire bazooka. Marines dig on side of hill and move towards it. They move out through a small valley. Tanks move up and machine guns fired at caves used as fortifications by Japanese troops. Flamethrower tank fires at Japanese caves on side of the cliff causing explosions. Hillside burns after assault from flame throwing tanks. Large columns of white and black smoke arises from hills. Tracers from tank fired into Japanese cave positions. Flamethrower tank fires into enemy cave. (World War II period).
U.S. Marines of 22nd Marine Regiment advances on the double in fields through demolished buildings, Naha.
U.S. 22nd Marine Regiment pass through ASA ruins under fire, Naha. Marines advance across hilly terrain. Smoke rises from hills in the background. Marines run up to demolished building and stop. Other Marines keep coming up behind them all on the double. Large stone pillars in the foreground. Marines run from demolished building towards the foreground. Marines zig-zagging and on the double. Many of them in large scattered formation run across field through ruins of building. (World War II period).