USS Bayfield, APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Two FM 3 aircraft fly above the Bayfield.
USS Bayfield APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. A naval officer briefs coxswains. The coxswains listen to the briefing. A terrain model of the beachhead at Iwo Jima. The officer and enlisted men talk.
USS Bayfield APA 33 underway in the Pacific Ocean prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. A marine officer comes on the bridge of the ship and looks through a stadiometer. The officer stands looks through binoculars. A conning officer takes bearing with a bearing circle on the peloris. A gunnery officer, with binoculars, works at a control station. The Gun Battery control.
A convoy of U.S. warships, including aircraft carrier, destroyers, and other ships, underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flak bursts are seen above the aircraft carrier, and then several bombs explode in the water off to her starboard. Tracer rounds are seen marking antiaircraft fire at Japanese airplane, which is hit and dives into the sea. The convoy continues on course at high speed. Four U.S. carrier-based fighter aircraft appear overhead, and one lands on an aircraft carrier. (World War II period).
Several sailors are seen behind a gunwale watching a replenishment ship, off their ship's stern, to starboard, underway in choppy seas, as part of a convoy of U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean, during World War II.
U.S. Destroyers USS Newcomb (DD-586) and the USS Leutze (DD-481) attacked by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Sailors on ship observe damaged parts of a ship. Water splashes on a ship. A sailor loads gun. Sailor seated at a damaged ship.