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Three battleships underway during battle of Peleliu, Palau in Pacific.

Fletcher class destroyer. Three battleships underway during battle of Peleliu, Palau in Pacific. (The U.S. battleships: USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee, USS Maryland, USS Mississippi, and USS Idaho, were known to have participated.) Scene of aircraft carriers and destroyers through port hole. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, September 11
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034731
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) refueling USS Bullard (DD-660) while underway at sea during World War II

USS Bullard (DD-660) destroyer approaching the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) aircraft carrier. Most of the destroyer's crew are on deck. Superstructure of carrier seen. Sailors on the Bullard haul on support lines attached to fuel lines. Two fuel lines rigged. After refueling, view of the forward fuel line being released from the and hauled aboard the carrier. The USS Bullard (DD-660) pulls away.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040832
Various types of aircraft land on flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, during World War II

A United States Navy aircraft carrier underway in Pacific ocean during World War 2. Numerous carrier landings are shown, involviing F6Fs, TBMs, and SB2C aircraft . There are no mishaps, and only one aircraft is seen getting a wave-off and going around. The various aircraft approach and land in a mixed sequence of the different types.

Date: 1944, October 26
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042079
Highlights in career of Chester W Nimitz. U.S. naval campaigns against Japanese forces during World War II.

Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz speaks to naval officers and civilians, on third anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Sailors salute as he boards a ship. Admiral Nimitz with Admiral Halsey. Fleet of The United States ships underway to attack Japanese enemy. Battleships fire guns at enemy. Rockets being fired from U.S. ships. U.S. amphibious landing at Leyte. Japanese military show their commitment to fight. U.S. Navy crews at work aboard ships preparing to engage Japanese fleet at Leyte Gulf. Heavy U.S. naval gunfire. U.S. navy aircraft take off from carrier and engage Japanese in aerial combat. U.S. aircraft bomb Japanese ships and U.S. ships defend against Japanese air attacks. Japanese survivors floating on debris and life rafts in the ocean. U.S. wounded in stretcher. Dead Americans honored at sea by their comrades in an official ceremony.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042985
Crew members fight fire on U.S. Aircraft carrier struck by Japanese Kamikaze airplane in the Pacific

Damage control parties fight a blaze on flight deck of U.S. aircraft carrier struck by Japanese Kamikaze airplane. They employ hoses and throw torrents of water on fire. Heavy black smoke billows from the fire. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043695
U.S. Air Force dive bomber strikes at Japanese positions in hills, during Pacific campaign of World War II.

An American Air Force fighter bomber dives at a Japanese position in hills, during World War Two. The aircraft releases bombs that explode on the targets.

Date: 1944
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044907