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American Destroyer receives mail bag from another ship underway in the Pacific
American Destroyer underway off the Japanese coast. It approaches another ship from which the scenes are recorded. Crews set up lines and transfer a canvas mail bag to the destroyer. Scenes on the mail ship of a sailor writing in a journal, officers conversing, and a sailor napping on deck.
United States warships in the Pacific attacked by Kamikaze planes of Japanese Air Force, Pacific Theater of World War II.
The Pacific Theater of World War II. A United States Navy ship cruising towards Iwo Jima attacked by Kamikaze planes of Imperial Japan. Kamikaze planes dive bombing toward US Navy ships. Huge ship anti aircraft guns on warships fire at the Japanese planes. Explosions on the ships and in the ocean. View as kamikaze aircraft is hit by anti-aircraft fire but continues on its path and strikes the USS Saratoga (CV-3), causing large explosion and smoke billowing upward. US Navy sailors fight fires and try to extinguish fire.
Operations on Escort Carrier from Task Group 52.2, off Iwo Jima. Service crew fills belly tank of airplane. A TBF is catapulted
Aboard escort carrier with Task Group 52.2 during Iwo Jima campaign, in World War 2. Crew member on watch looks through binoculars. Another with him drinks coffee. Deck service crew install and fill belly tank on an airplane. View from hangar deck, below, as a Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft is catapulted, clearing end of the flight deck.
Personnel and mail exchanged between USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87) and USS Douglas A. Munro (DE 422) at sea
Aviator converses with another officer aboard escort carrier USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87) of Task Group 52.2, during World War II. Destroyer Escort, USS Douglas A. Munro (DE 422) approaches from starboard astern of the Steamer Bay. Lines are placed between the ships and a mail pouch is transferred from the Steamer Bay to the Munro. Two aviators transfer from the Munro to the escort carrier via breeches buoy. Several aviators standing on the Steamer Bay. Group of aviators climb catwalk from hangar deck to flight deck of Steamer Bay. A pilot in cockpit of FM-2 wildcat airplane. An FM-2 wildcat lands on the Steamer Bay. Crew member watches from side of flight deck. Crew members conversing.
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat bursts into flames during landing on USS Randolph. Another F6F gets caught in the flames
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat fighter aircraft, from Squadron VF-12, with the number 59 painted on its fuselage, bursts into flames during landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Randolph (CV-15), in the Pacific near Okinawa. The F6F, piloted by Ensign Lowell Rund, experienced engine problems soon after takeoff and returned to the Randolph. As his F6F snags an arresting cable on the deck of the carrier, his centerline drop tank shackles fail and the 150 gallon fuel tank flies forward into the propeller, bursting into flames that engulf the aircraft. F6F-5 number 58, from the same squadron, gets caught in flames sweeping part of the flight deck of the Randolph. Firefighters carrying hose, respond. Other fire on flight deck seen in the background. They successfully rescue the pilot of number 58, who is seen on deck, as crew members help him remove his flight gear. (Not shown: Ensign Lowell Rund of number 59 was also rescued. He suffered third degree burns on his face and arms.) (World War II period).
U.S. carrier-based fighters attack a Japanese aircraft and a Japanese warship in the Pacific Theater, during World War Two.
U.S. carrier-based aircraft pursue and fire upon a Japanese aircraft. They also attack a Japanese warship, which begins to burn and belch clouds of black smoke.