View of gunner inside a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft on patrol in World War 2. He demonstrates firing his 50 caliber machine gun, rotating it through various angles. The wind from the open canopy blows his clothing. Change of scene shows bombs dropping from under a PBY. The sequence shifts again, back to the gunner at his station.
Navigator, aboard a U.S. Navy PBY aircraft on patrol during World War 2, prepares to take Sun line readings with a sextant. A radio operator, wearing a headset, types a message, and hands an incoming message to another crew member.
U.S. Navy Grumman J2F Duck amphibian biplane flying in trail with a land version of Vought OS2U Kingfisher aircraft (fitted with fixed landing gear and tailwheel). The aircraft are flying over land, during World War 2. Altocumulus clouds are visible in background behind them.
Navigator aboard U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY aircraft lays out an over-water course on a navigation chart during World War 2. He refers to a mission folder containing orders for the flight. View of the pilot in cockpit, taken from the floor below him. View of copilot from same vantage point, as he looks through binoculars, and then passes them to the pilot, who speaks to crew on intercom. Scene shifts back to navigator at his plotting table.
United States sailors load ammunition and a machine gun onto a PBY Catalina amphibian plane parked on the ramp at a Navy base in the Pacific Theater, during World War 2. Sailors,standing on the aircraft wing, pull the number one propeller through before the engine is started.A sailor on the wing stands fireguard, as the number two engine is started.
Two mid-grade U.S. Navy aviation officers, one in a tropical pith helmet and the other in a side cap, discuss a 50 caliber machine gun with a Navy aviation Commodore, who handles the weapon. The scene is aboard a U.S. ship during World War 2.
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