U.S. Forces shoot down enemy airplanes and submarines in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Task Force underway at sea off the coast of Saipan. Three Japanese aircraft attack ships. Naval guns being fired at the airplanes. The airplanes being shot down. An aircraft bursts into flames and falls into sea. A U.S. aircraft attacks a German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean. The U boat being strafed and sinks into the sea.
Activities aboard USS Lexington (CV-16) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) shows U.S. Navy SBD Dauntless dive bomber planes being towed. Crew members moving bombs on hand carts. Armorers pull bombs off the bomb elevator. Man wheels depth charge on small cart. Two men arm machine guns.The aircraft displays a miniature Japanese flag, painted beside the cockpit, to indicate an enemy kill. Men raise 500 lb. bomb into TBF. Men load depth charges into TBF. Man wheels 500 lb. bomb down the flight deck.
The growth of the United States Navy in the United States during World War II. Animation depicts the growth of the navy. Many thousands of ships in the navy. The ships of the navy served in the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
U.S. battleships of Ninth Division, anchored deep in the Firth of Forth, close to the cantelever Forth rail bridge, during World War I. Soldiers in life vests looking over stern at the wake of a ship underway. Sailors in the Pacific, sitting around a gun on deck of a warship. Sailors in foul weather gear fire a 5 inch deck gun on warship in the Atlantic. Sailors run to gun stations. Several gun crew carry shells for the gun. Sailors in cold weather gear on a different ship, in the Atlantic, firing a 5 inch gun near a lifeboat on davit. Line of battleships underway in Atlantic.
Discharged employees stand outside the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company in Cleveland, Ohio. The companies got closed due to dispute between employees and the striking warehouse men.
Aerial views of Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the Panama Canal Zone. Lush green fields, tower and buildings in the Canal zones. Shoreline, a ship anchored at the canal, vehicles move along the border between the Panama Canal Zone and Republic of Panama. Fort Gulick on the Atlantic side of the Canal. Palm trees, buildings, cars move along the border. Cars parked alongside of the road that forms the border between Republic of Panama and Canal Zone.