View of a motorboat heading toward an Japanese Imperial Navy Niagra-class light cruiser anchored near a submarine, in waters off Kiska,in the Aleutian Islands, during World War 2. Scene shifts to Japanese naval guns firing. A U.S. Army Air forces B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in flight overhead. Explosion and smoke fills scene next to Japanese camera ship, and then another bomb explodes in the water nearby. A Japanese submarine and destroyer are in the background. Japanese ship fires anti-aircraft guns at a U.S. PBY-5 Catalina in flight overhead. Camera follows flight of the Catalina past ship's funnel which is emitting black smoke. Another bomb hits water near the ship. More anti-aircraft fire is seen from the ship. The Catalina turns away, with a slight trail of smoke behind. Next, a large explosion is seen from a bomb striking near the shore. A Catalina, flying toward the camera ship, passes over a hill, through black flak clouds, and is struck. It descends, emitting trailing puffs of black smoke and strikes the shoreline in an explosion and black smoke.
U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy officers in Palomares, Spain after a United States Air Forces Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber crash incident and during aircraft salvage operations of 1966. Civilians stand around outside a command tent at Camp Wilson. U.S. RADM (Rear Admiral) William A. Guest, USAF Major General Delmar E. Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, Spanish Minister of Health and Spanish Minister of Air come out of the command tent and get into cars. A car pulls away. A group of officers approaches a helicopter pad area. A civilian with a Spanish high ranking officer. A civilian photographer photographs the group. A Spanish helicopter in the helicopter area. Several dignitaries alongside the helicopter. Women guests get off the helicopter assisted by the Spanish officer. A group of Spanish teenagers looks on. A large group at the helicopter area. Dignitaries including RADM Guest, Major General Wilson and many civilians depart from tent. They walk down a road at the USAF Command Post.
Salvage operations in the Mediterranean Sea by a U.S. ARS (Salvage Ship) after 1966 Palomares B-52 crash incident. An ARS underway. A large group of civilians and USAF (United States Air Force) personnel in the hold of an LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized). Cameramen and reporters tour the search area with U.S. Deputy-Commander Strike Force South Rear Admiral William A Guest on board LCM. Rear Admiral Guest talk to the reporters. Rear Admiral Guest in a long, leather coat points out matter to the reporters. USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) in the background. Photographers take pictures of USS Fort Snelling.
Salvage operations off the coast of Palomares, Spain by the United States after the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash. A small boat in water. Line handlers aboard an LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) tending lines attached to divers, being towed through water during salvage operations. A man on the stern of the LCM holds a tow line attached to divers underwater in the far background. A small boat patrols in the background. Men on stern of the LCM grouped around. A diver swims towards the stern of the LCM. A piece of gear is brought aboard by the men on the stern. The man on the stern of the LCM holding onto the line extended out into water. Four men on the stern of the LCM tend lines which are extended out into the wake of a boat.
Salvage operations off the coast of Palomares, Spain by the United States after 1966 Palomares B-52 crash incident. The helmsman of a U.S. LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) at controls. U.S. personnel on the stern of the LCM. A diver swims towards the LCM. The diver in water talks to men on the LCM. Men on the stern of the LCM pull in on a line from water. A kite being brought aboard. The diver in water in the left background. A man works with lines and gear on the deck of the boat. Men unfastening lines attached to the kite on the deck. A man holds lines extended in the wake of the LCM.
Salvage operations off the coast of Palomares, Spain by the United States after 1966 Palomares B-52 crash incident. A diver comes aboard a U.S. LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) from the water. U.S. personnel assist the diver in taking off his tanks. The diver talks to men on the LCM.
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