United States Navy planes land on USN Task Force 38 carriers in Gulf of Leyte during World War 2. CVL (Light Aircraft Carrier) underway. Formation of planes. A Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver airplane is waved off during approach and executes go-around before landing on USS Essex. Crewmen examine battle damage on wings and around cockpits of an SB2C-5 aircraft (pilot Lt. Roger Noyes) parked on the flight deck. Pilot in F6F Hellcat fighter (with four rising sun flags for enemy kills on fuselage) awaits signal for takeoff. Formations of other aircraft returning to the carrier.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations at "Fighter Two" strip, on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in World War 2. P-38 comes in to land, with left engine feathered. Airmen take temporary refuge under wing of 339th Fighter Squadron's P-38G-13 aircraft, #127 "Fran III," during tropical rainstorm. Mechanic in rain gear, works on P-38 named,"Little Jo"!. More P-38s parked on water-soaked ramp. A P-38 taking off, and another landing, and taxiing to the ramp. P-40F Warhawk, number 256, of the 44th Fighter Squadron (painted white band behind cockpit) lands, followed by another P-40.
Flag raising ceremony by U.S. Army at Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Troops at attention and salute the flag. Soldiers take pictures. Commander-General of USAFPOA (US Army Forces Pacific Ocean Area) Lieutenant General Robert Richardson, Jr. talks to other U.S. officers. Army jeeps parked.
Japanese air attack on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Smoke rises from a burning ship in the background. Flight deck personnel on carrier. Planes parked on deck of a carrier in the foreground. Large column of smoke rises from a burning carrier in the background. Smoke rises from USS Hancock (CV-19) underway. Cleveland class CL (Light Cruiser) underway. Column of smoke rises from a ship in the background.
A formation of Douglas SBD-3 aircraft is seen flying overhead. Pilots of U.S. Navy Fighter Squadron (VF-3) on their Aircraft Carrier, the USS Yorktown (CV-5), after a mission during the Battle of Midway. They are seen climbing out of their aircraft after parking on the flight deck. The Squadron Commander, Lieutenant Commander John S. Thatch, in cockpit of his F4F aircraft with 7 Japanese flags painted on its fuselage. in out of sequence, earlier shot, he holds up four fingers in response to question of how many Japanese aircraft fell to VF-3, on this mission. Other VF-3 pilots climbing from their aircraft. Three pose in front of an F4F.
Japanese women wear Western fashion in a park. Two Japanese women wearing Western-style dresses walk toward the steps and talk. A Japanese woman wears a geometric dress puts her handkerchief inside her purse. Two women walk past a fountain. One woman poses in the garden. Trees in the background. Two women wearing hats walk and talk together. Women in hat and with umbrella pose in the garden.
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