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U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-5) firing anti-aircraft guns and launching aircraft during the Battle of Midway in World War II

View of the USS Yorktown (CV-5) underway in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway in World War 2. Two quad-mount 28 mm anti-aircraft guns being fired by sailors on the ship. Quad mount 1.1 inch gun being fired. The flight deck of the USS Yorktown. U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes of Bombing Squadron Five (VB-5) are parked on the flight deck. Black puffs from Flak bursts seen in the air. The remainder of the film shows 14 aircraft of VB-5 launching, one after the other, taking off in sequence.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1942, June
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062938
Scenes from World War II Battle of Midway documentary film

Segments of film, shot under direction of John Ford,for documentary on Battle of Midway in World War 2. Two U.S. Navy F4F-4s take off successively from deck of an aircraft carrier. A Douglas Dauntless (SBD-3) takes off. Man in steel helmet strains to look directly overhead through binoculars, as a flight of five Japanese zeros peels off overhead and dives. One is seen releasing a bomb. The Five aircraft fly away in trail formation and then reappear flying toward the camera and dropping bombs. Flak clouds hang low in the air. Objects stike the water with splashes. Antiaircraft fire, with tracers visible, is directed at low flying airplane. Two Japanese zero fighters zoom low toward the camera and pull out overhead. A flight of three Douglas Dauntless aircraft in formation.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1942, June
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062996
Scenes shot for Battle of Midway documentary in World War 2

Segments of color footage shot for John Ford's wartime documentary on the Battle of Midway, during World War II. Sailors near a gun aboard a U.S. warship. Individual Douglas SBDs repeatedly fly overhead. An SBD dauntless ditches in the sea. A destroyer approaches to rescue the crew.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1942, June
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062999
U.S. Marines of 1st Tank Battalion en route to Peleliu on the USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) in World War II

U.S. Marines of the 1st Tank Battalion aboard the USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) headed toward Peleliu in the Palau Islands during World War 2. Marines work on their M4A2 Sherman tanks aboard ship. They use tar and tape to seal places on the tanks as they prepare them for amphibious assault.They clean a hatch on one. A Marine points out water proofing points on tank. A slate reads "motor trouble" on September 12th. Another reads: "Passing Army Convoy." Then a long line of ships is seen on the horizon in the distance.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, September 9
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063837
The USS Gunston Hall arriving in waters off Peleliu as part of an invasion task force during World War II

The USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) in the waters off Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War 2. Officers reading orders and briefing Marines on deck. Closeups of marines and officer reading the orders. Sailors shooting the sun with sextants. Other invasion task force ships seen from the Gunston Hall

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944, September 13
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063839
USS Tennessee struck by Kamikaze , off Okinawa, during World War II

A United States New Mexico class battleship (believed to be the USS Idaho) is seen underway off Okinawa in World War 2. Heavy flak (antiaircraft gun fire) in the sky. Japanese Kamikaze (suicide dive bombers) in the skies under heavy flak fire. Kamikaze dives and strikes a battleship that appears to be the USS Tennessee (BB-43) throwing up a ball of flame. In the background is a smoking Destroyer, probably the USS Zellars (DD777) which was already hit by one or two Kamikazes. The Zellars and Tennessee were a short distance ahead of the Idaho during the attack. The Zellars was dead in the water as the Idaho passed it.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945, April 12
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029816
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