A documentary titled 'Flight Deck'. Red light on flight deck of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt(CV-42) during air operation. Catapult crew rests. Launch of U.S. Navy jet fighters complete. Recovery of jets. Pilots gather in ready room after recovery. A jet fails to land in first three attempts by missing the arresting wires twice and bad approach. In the morning a helicopter brings the dead body of Comander Robert to the ship. Prayer ceremony is conducted by a priest.
Waves splash over the bow of a German Scharnhorst-class battleship, during World War 2. Her 28 cm (11 in) forward guns are clearly seen in two triple turrets. Scene shifts to a surfaced German submarine underway with waves covering its bow. The German U boat captain looks through binoculars from the boat's deck. German navy crew are seen at work stations below decks. Some are stripped to the waist because of the below decks heat. Various views of the churning waters as the boat makes way.
British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.
Activities aboard USS Randolph (CV-15). Ordnance man works on torpedo attached to side of SH-3A helicopter. Ordnance man secures depth bomb to helicopter. Tow tractor moves over flight deck next to island. Another tractor comes from left towing an S2F (aka ""Stoof" by sailors). This plane is from squadron VS-27. Side view of the aircraft with name 'USS Randolph' on engine nacelle. Ship's island in the background. Tractor tows another S2F on flight deck. SH-3A helicopters in the background.
Activities aboard USS Randolph. Two enlisted personnel talk and have coffee aboard USS Randolph. Face of crewman, in dress blues, seated at table drinking coffee. Two bunks in living space. Men in blues come with one of the ship's Master-at-Arms. They drop bunks to horizontal level and prepare bunks.
British destroyers battle German U boats and aircraft in North Atlantic during World War II. Depth charges launched by destroyers. One German aircraft downed. One British destroyer is torpedoed and seriously damaged. Crew abandons ship, except for volunteer crewmen who bring the stricken vessel safely to port.
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