USS Wasp flight operations in the Pacific Theater. F4F aircraft landing on the flight deck. It crashes as the wheel collapses. It crashes into barriers. Men running towards the plane. SB2U aircraft crashes into barrier aboard the Wasp. Another SB2U aircraft landing aboard the Wasp.
Slow motion footage of SB2C airplane landing on USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during Marianas campaign; Battle of Philippine Sea in World War 2. The carrier's island structure in view. The airplane hits restraint wires and noses over and flips, upside down, landing completely inverted on the deck. Other planes in the background. Men rush towards the crashed plane.
SB2C airplane is seen in slow motion as it jumps restraining cables, noses over, and flips completely upside down on deck of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during World War 2. Firefighters in protective gear respond and spray foam on the airplane to suppress fire.
U.S. warships off Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, during World War 2. An OS2U Kingfisher scout seaplane, from one of the ships flies overhead, circles, and lands on choppy waters. The aircraft porpoises in the chop before settling down to taxi. A small boat is nearby.
Shows the White Sands Proving Ground ( White Sands Missile Range), a rocket range in New Mexico. Sign on entrance fence reads "Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground". View of rocket test launch area, including an old rusted tail section of a rocket. Quonset huts and storage areas nearby. A white German V-2 rocket on its side on a wheeled carrier. Camera up close on rocket with painted lettering that reads 'German V-2 rocket,Ordinance Department, White Sands Proving Ground ,New Mexico'.
SH-3A helicopter flying above Guantanamo Bay surface during DesRon2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) hunter-killer exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Naval Destroyer, likely either the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) or the USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway. An S-2E aircraft is seen in flight, flying low over the ocean surface with mad boom extended. It drops a torpedo which splashes into the water. Signal flare seen burning on water, with smoke rising upward.
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