United States aircraft come aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A United States Navy Task Force underway at sea. Aircraft on the deck of the ship. An aircraft takes off as a signalman waves. The aircraft in flight. The fighter bomber aircraft return to the carrier after striking Japanese positions in China, Formosa and islands off the coast of Japan. The aircraft land and taxi on the flight deck. An aircraft lands and falls over the side of the aircraft carrier while taxing. The pilot is rescued and carried away on a stretcher. An aircraft takes off from the deck.
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.
USS Intrepid aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A sailor examines a hole on the deck of the aircraft carrier made by Japanese aircraft. Flight deck of the aircraft carrier. An island in the background and foam on the deck in the foreground.
USS Intrepid aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A battleship and an aircraft carrier underway as aircraft carrier burns in the background. Men fight fire on the deck of USS Intrepid. Smoke comes up between cracks from hangar deck below.
USS Intrepid aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Hospital Corpsmen treat the wounded on the flight deck of USS Intrepid. A Corpsman gives artificial respiration to a wounded man. Wounded being administered blood plasma on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
USS Franklin (CV-13) underway in the Pacific Ocean after being severely damaged by Japanese bombing during World War II. A group of African American stewards in white pants and T shirts sing during a Church service aboard the USS Franklin. They sing from hymn books. Other African American sailors on the deck as they sing hymns with bomb-damaged bulkhead in the background.