Naval Battle of Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. View from The USS Enterprise (CV-6) during attacks by Japanese airplanes. F4F aircraft parked on her flight deck. A U.S. Destroyer is steaming aft and firing its guns. Battleship, USS South Dakota seen in distance. Black Flak bursts in the air. The Enterprise makes swerving defensive maneuvers while underway. A Japanese airplane flies overhead, aft. View from the ship's island of sailors gathered on flight deck and then running to an F4F that has collapsed with wing over antiaircraft gun positions. Sailors begin to right the airplane but abandon the deck when a bomb hits somewhere aft starboard. Smoke rising from the strike area. Enterprise making severe defensive maneuvers as her antiaircraft batteries fire. Anti-aircraft cruiser, USS San Juan CL-54, visible astern as Enterprise turns hard to starboard. Sky filled with black flak bursts. Black smoke rising from two downed Japanese aircraft in the water. Smoke drifting across the flight deck.
United States Army Air Forces aircraft at an airbase in the United States during World War 2. Airplanes parked. Nose of P-47 Thunderbolt. Names on the names of various P-47 aircraft, including "Spittin Maggie", "Coleen", "Honey Chile", "Ginnia 367" and "Hattie Hawgmeat" written on the planes. A man standing near a P-47.
U.S. Navy personnel in the United States during the Battle of Midway of World War II. Air crewmen standing in front of the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. Other airplanes parked at the beach. Crewmen standing on the wing of PBY. They work on the nose blister. Side blister of the PBY. Men working on and under the wing of the airplane.
U.S. Navy PBY Catalina at a beach in the United States. Air crewmen standing in front of the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY going down a sea plane ramp. The airplane taxiing in water. PBY in flight overhead.
Activities of the U.S. Navy at the Pearl Harbor during World War II. Salvage activities aboard U.S. Navy USS West Virginia battleship. Part of the salvage crew aboard the ship. Sign boards reads: 'Air raid alarm will be tested', 'All hands lug one case of empty cokes to the beach.' Also 'No Smoking' and 'No visitors allowed'. Men working on the ship. Damaged equipment on the ship. The mountains in the background. A diver climbing out of water via ladder.
Parachute training in the German army during World War II. An airplane in flight. Newly trained German paratrooper soldiers jump out of the airplane. Close up views of German soldiers as they jump from aircraft. They descend towards the ground. Many parachutes open in the air as paratroopers descen. The parachute troops insignia. A German officer explains a model of an enemy town to the soldiers and a target demolition area. He explains a diagram on the board. They discuss a document.
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