Hercules Flying Boat under construction at the Hughes Aircraft Company, California. Workmen seen with the flying boat. Hull of the seaplane under construction. The flying boat's stern. Interior of the Hercules hull shows immense size of plane. Dummy control panel with intricate dial system. A woman seen near it. Wing of Hercules under construction with eight engine mounts. Workmen on a wing. Man comes from wing front. Interior of the wing. Stern under construction.
U.S. Navy Training film' Air Crewmen of the Navy'. A U.S. Navy pilot named Lieutenant Grant Evans, played by Hollywood actor Robert Stack, enters a building. 'KTWM' written on the building. He is interviewed. Both men sit across the table. He talks about air crew of the U.S. Navy. He describes his work. A Navy Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft is inspected. The Navy pilot meets his crew members. Other planes in the background. The men talk to each other. The air crew climbs the plane and takes off. The pilot reaches the 'Naval Air Gunners School'. The gunners are trained. U.S. Navy Captain presents U.S. Navy aircrew wings to the trainees. Planes in flight. Planes land on flight deck.
Navy enlisted aircrew in their bunks aboard a ship. One reads a newspaper. Another reads a magazine and looks at a picture of a model and discusses it with other man. An emergency arises. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger planes are ready on the flight deck. The U.S. Navy pilots scramble and rush towards the planes. A flight of five aircraft takeoff and fly in formation towards the target. Reenactment of battles on ground between U.S. and Japanese forces. Navy aircraft bomb the Japanese forces. Japanese fire antiaircraft guns. Navy aircraft gunners fire at Japanese. The Aircraft piloted by Lieutenant Grant Evans, played by Hollywood Actor Robert Stack, is damaged by Japanese gunfire. As the aircraft and crew limp home, they are attacked by a Japanese fighter, but shoot it down and successfully return to land on their aircraft carrier. After recovering from his wounds, Lieutenant Grant Evans (Robert Stack) is interviewed in a building. Large numbers of Navy aircraft flying in formations.
Allied invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) underway in Pacific Theater. LVT underway towards beach. Landing Craft Infantry aboard LVT. Shoreline of Aguni Jima in view. Loaded Landing Crafts approach beach. LVT lands on beach. Control boat and auxiliary craft on beach. Destroyer ships in view. Landing Craft Infantry advances and disperses on the beach.
Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Bombardment on an open area by the Allied Troops. Smoke rises up in the sky. Japanese civilians gathered, including children, who are carried by adults. (World War II period).
Invasion of Aguni Jima in Okinawa, Japan. Japanese civilians sit on ground. A child with bandages on head. U.S. Marine Corpsman bandages small child's head. Another marine bandages a child who has his leg in a splint, and a baby with a wound to the leg.
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