U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) burns during World War 2 following torpedo hit. USS Wasp underway at sea in the Pacific Theater. Heavy black smoke rises up. A destroyer ship underway near the stern of the USS Wasp. USS Wasp enveloped in smoke.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) burning in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Survivors stand on the deck and bridge of a Destroyer ship. Several men sit on the deck. USS Wasp enveloped in smoke following torpedo attack. Surviving sailors swimming in ocean. Life boats in water.
Lines stretched between the U.S. battleship, USS North Carolina (BB-55), and a destroyer, to facilitate transfer of personnel. Heavy smoke billowing from the USS Wasp (CV-7) after she is struck by three torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-19, in World War 2. A U.S. destroyer moves into position near the Wasp. Views, from a nearby ship, of the Wasp, listing, and of severe damage to her hull. Oil burns on the water ahead of Wasp. Lines extend from her deck and sides as her crew abandons ship. Fire and explosions continue and consume the USS Wasp.
Views in semi-darkness of U.S. Navy sailor survivors in life boats, from the USS Wasp (CV-7), approaching the Cruiser, USS Helena (CL-50) during World War 2. Smoke rising from the USS Wasp (CV-7) as viewed from the Helena. As night falls, the fires aboard the USS Wasp are all that is visible.
Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright and staff sit opposite Japanese General Masaharu Honma and officers during surrender after fall of Corregidor. General Honmu enters Manila greeted by crowd gathered on the street. People carry large banners. The banners read in Japanese language. The crowd carries Japanese flags. Two WAC's (Women's Army Corps) talk about the situation in the Pacific Theater. Railroad train filled with U.S. army trucks. A United States naval fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean. Soldiers disembarking troop ship overseas. Naval guns in view on U.S. warships near wharf. . A P-38, Lightning fighter plane being offloaded onto the dock. A P-38 taking off from a pierced steel plank runway, in the Pacific. (World War II period).
During World War 2, the new Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland is dedicated by the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (NBMS ) on its 100th anniversary. New hospital building. Guards out front marching. Patients on hospital beds. Pharmacists in a sterilization chamber. A nurse at work with equipment. A group of doctors in an operation theater performs a surgery on a patient. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at the hospital in a chauffeur driven motor carriage with other personnel to address the patients on the occasion. Patients in wheel chairs with their attendants. A large gathering of doctors, nurses and other staff and patients of the hospital outside the hospital building. President Roosevelt addresses the gathering. He says that there is a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Medical, surgical and nursing care should be given to every civilian. To allow use of medical staff for the war effort, he also cautions Americans to be cautious and safe, citing those civilians who drive recklessly and those who do not take preventive measures in industrial plants.
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