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Improving living conditions on U.S. Navy ships. The USS Meredith (DD-890)

The USS Meredith (DD-890) chosen as a "laboratory" for improving living conditions on U.S. Navy vessels. Poor living conditions on the ship. Crewmen face difficulties in adjusting to the living conditions. Animation shows the plans regarding the improvement of the living conditions. Improved conditions on the ship. Tidy and well managed beds in the compartment. Proper illumination in the compartment.Crewmen sleep on the beds. Proper spaces and places provided to keep personal items. Well furnished compartment. Sailors sit on chairs and play chess. Another man reads newspaper.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027612
Efforts to improve living conditions on U.S. Navy vessels. The destroyer, USS Meredith (DD-890)

Views of unsatisfactory living conditions aboard the USS Meredith (DD-890). Cramped messing facilities. Difficulties in access and egress. Improved furniture on the ship. Beds in the compartment. Crew sleep in the compartment. The interior design of the ship on a paper. Improved beds in the compartment. Crewman sits on a chair and writes something. Lockers in the compartment. Seamen converse amongst themselves.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027613
Atomic burst of 15 Kiloton weapon in Test "Grable" at Nevada Test Site on May 25, 1953

Rapid flash and rapidly rising mushroom cloud seen in this test of 15 kiloton weapon on May 25, 1953,called "Grable", at the Nevada Test Site. It was shot from a M65 atomic cannon mobile artillery piece, sometimes called Atomic Annie.

Date: 1953, May 25
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027692
U.S.Marine Artillery battery loads up in amphibious DUKWs and drives them from beach into water and on to Landing Ships

U.S. Marine artillery battery loads up and boards amphibian DUKW vehicles. They drive the DUKWs over land and beach into the water. Some board a Landing Ship (LSM) in the surf. Others board an LSM Landing ship in deep water, off the coast.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027735
Large naval convoy escorted by U.S. Naval warships including Battleships at sea.

Large U.S. navy convoy with Battleships at sea, Amphibious DUKWs leave LSM Landing ship in deep water and motor to shore. Some are loaded with 105mm howitzers. Other LSM (Landing Ship Medium) maneuvers to beach and DUKWs exit through the surf to drive away on hard ground..

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027736
Techniques used by a destroyer in rescuing downed pilot

A U.S. Navy training film regarding destroyer rescue of a downed pilot. An aircraft carrier in the sea. A helicopter hovers over the aircraft carrier. A destroyer amidst the sea. Crew members and rescue equipment on the ship. including scuba divers. Small boats lowered in the sea. An officer watches through the binoculars. Another sailor talks on the radio. Various airplanes take off from the flight deck. Various landings on the flight deck. Actual footage of a U.S. Navy jet with number 5357 landing on flight deck and a fire burning beneath it. The plane continues past barriers, off the port deck, pilot ejects, and plane plunges into the sea. Pilot in the sea. The rescue ship comes nearby the pilot. It rescues the pilot with the help of a rescue sling.

Date: 1962
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027763