The Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific Ocean during October 1944 in World War II. Aerial view of the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. aircraft takes off from a carrier. The aircraft in flight. Naval guns being fired from ships underway in the Pacific. Animation depicts lack of communication between American forces. Ships underway. Animation depicts the cause of surprise enemy attack on American forces. U.S. Navy officers and crew look at radar monitors tracking enemy forces. Japanese ships underway in the Pacific. U.S. 7th Fleet ships underway. Animation depicts positions of U.S. Task Forces. Commander of U.S. 7th Fleet Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid receives a dispatch from Commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet. Battleships underway in the Pacific Ocean. Animation depicts organized Task Force 34 and Task Force 38 pushing on. Animation depicts the various possibilities of American Task Force attack over the Japanese forces.
Recovery of Marine wounded in Saipan during World War II. United States ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during the battle of Saipan. Naval guns aboard the ship bombard the coast. United States troops aboard transport ships. Landing crafts loaded with Marines move towards the shore. Troops land at the coast amidst heavy firing. Medical Company arrives at the beach and looks after the wounded Marines. Marines fire machine gun and tanks roll. Injured Marines on stretchers being carried away. Litter patients being placed into ambulance jeep and carried away. Medical officer examines the wounded and provides first aid to them. Litter patients being placed in a jeep and walking wounded being helped to get into the jeep. Jeep carries the injured Marines to Regimental aid station. Doctor checks the injured Marines and treats them. Tags being prepared for each patient. Records being maintained. Wounded being loaded onto a jeep and the jeep is driven away to a collecting station. At the collecting station Marines at work.
The film 'The Saga of the Franklin' to honor and remember the men who served in the U.S. Navy during during World War II. A board reads USS Franklin (CV-13). The log book of the ship. An entry from the log book. The ship leaves San Francisco, California in February 1945. A U.S. flag flutters on the ship. The ship in the western Pacific Ocean. A fleet of ships underway at sea. Aircraft take off from the deck for a mission on July 4th, 1944. The target is Iwo Jima, Japan. Other ships nearby. Guns are fired. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft crashes on a ship. An aircraft in flight. Explosions on the ground below. A Kamikaze aircraft is hit by guns fired from USS Franklin by Air Group 13. Rocket equipped aircraft struck Japanese ships. Aerial view of burning ships in water. Kamikaze aircraft in flight. A Kamikaze aircraft which has been hit, falls downwards in a mass of fire. It crashes into water. A Kamikaze aircraft crashes into water near a ship. A ball of fire rises up. A Kamikaze aircraft crashes into USS Franklin on October 30, 1944. After being repaired, USS Franklin reaches Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A band plays to welcome the ship. U.S. Navy WAVES ( Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) on the ship. A U.S. Navy Vice Admiral decorates sailors. Air Group 75 and 35 aboard the ship. Aircraft on the deck. An aircraft takes off from the deck of the carrier. An aircraft prepares for a take off. A white diamond painted on the tail of an aircraft in flight. An aircraft comes in for a landing. An LSO ( Landing Signal Officer ) signals using flags. He makes a signal for an aircraft to cut off its engine while landing. The aircraft makes an arrested landing. An aircraft lands on its nose. Men sunbathe in Hawaii. A party abroad USS Franklin. A cake to celebrate the 9000th landing on the carrier. Ensign A. W. Graf who had made the landing cuts the cake.
American strike at Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Cape Engano of World War II (during Battle of Leyte Gulf) in October 1944. Animation depicts U.S. Task Force 38 in three groups and contact with enemy forces. Animation depicts Task Force 38.3 and Task Force 38.4 concentrating on Task Force 38.2. Task Force 38.1 diverted for battle and Japan's attack on Task Force 38.3. Japanese aircraft in flight. Naval guns fired from U.S. battleships. Japanese aircraft which are shot down plunge in water. USS Princeton (CVL-23 ) catches fire. U.S. soldiers spray water on the ship. USS Birmingham (CL-62) and USS Irwin (DD-794) attempt to extinguish the fire. The ship explodes. Animation depicts Task Force 38.3, Task Force 38.2 and a search airplane locating enemy carrier force. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr. who is the Commander of U.S. Third Fleet studies a map with others and makes an estimate of Japanese forces. Animation depicts the strength of Japanese forces. Animation depicts the strength of the Japanese Navy in the central region. Animation depicts U.S. plan of attack on Japanese forces.
Japanese suicide bomber plane crashes on deck of USS Franklin (CV-13) underway in the Pacific Ocean on 30th October 1944 during World War II. Japanese kamikaze plane approaches in flames. Planes burns on flight deck of Franklin due to suicide crash. Men fight fire that breaks out on deck and among the on deck aircraft. Smoke billows up through flight deck from fire on hangar deck. Men fight fire on hangar deck. Injured man. Crew with fire hoses directed at hole on flight deck. Body of burned crew man. Navy crew fight the fire. Crew push a destroyed aircraft off the carrier into the ocean.
17 February 1944, during World War 2, off the coast of Truk Island in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. aircraft from the USS Cowpens (CVL-25) attack the Japanese Sendai class light cruiser Naka. Scenes of the bombing attack on the Japanese cruiser. Explosions on and around the Naka, which turns to starboard in an evasive maneuver.