Navigator, aboard a U.S. Navy PBY aircraft on patrol during World War 2, prepares to take Sun line readings with a sextant. A radio operator, wearing a headset, types a message, and hands an incoming message to another crew member.
Navigator aboard U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY aircraft lays out an over-water course on a navigation chart during World War 2. He refers to a mission folder containing orders for the flight. View of the pilot in cockpit, taken from the floor below him. View of copilot from same vantage point, as he looks through binoculars, and then passes them to the pilot, who speaks to crew on intercom. Scene shifts back to navigator at his plotting table.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific near the Panama Canal. Charles Lindbergh seen in a Boeing F3B-1 carrier based fighter bomber (BuNo A-7739) from Bombing Squadron VB-2B aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. Lindbergh visited the USS Saratoga on 8 February 1929. He was aboard for two days and while he was there he was invited to fly the new Boeing F3B-1. The VB-2B made him an honorary member of the squadron. U.S. Navy officers talk to Lindbergh on the deck of Saratoga, including Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves (aka "Bull" Reeves), A.P. Storrs, and W.V. Davis. Pilots pose for a photo with Lindbergh. Lindbergh seated in the aircraft. Squadron emblem of Felix the cat holding a spherical bomb is painted on side of plane. Plane takes off from the carrier deck. Lindbergh, U.S. Military and Navy officials aboard Saratoga talk to each other. Another naval ship can be seen in the sea. Bow of the aircraft carrier.
Views of U.S. Navy Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific near Panama Canal during fleet excercise "Fleet Problem IX". The Aircraft Carrier Saratoga steaming forward, seen from various angles. The hull and huge guns of the ship can be seen. A seaplane on the deck of the ship.
A Martin T3M-2 floatplane catapulted from deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3). The sailors aboard watch the plane taking off. Takeoff of a Vought UO-1 two-seat observation biplane from the deck of the USS Saratoga. Then landing of a UO-1 on the USS Saratoga. Crewman waves flags at edge of deck.
U.S. Iowa-class Battleship displays its 16-inch guns in triple turrets, during World War 2. The turrets rotate independently during the demonstration. U.S. Navy sailors riding on motorized dolleys transporting bombs on a Naval base. A flight of three U.S. Navy F6F aircraft, equipped with centerline gasoline drop tanks, is seen in formation. The flight leader, begins to dive. Partial closeup of a U.S. heavy cruiser, with forward triple turret guns elevated toward the port stern and next set of guns only slightly elevated in the same direction.
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