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Slow motion views of F4U Corsair mishap during landing on flight deck of USS Bunker Hill during World War II

Views from low on flight deck as a United States F4U Corsair of VF-17, comes in for a landing on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during shakedown cruise. It engages several restraining cables, and noses over. The plane rights itself and is pulled back by the cables. Smoke seen coming from engine cowling. Sailors including firefighters in protective gear, rush toward the aircraft. Sailor sprays extinguisher into cowling area of the Corsair's engine. The pilot is seen apparently unhurt, in the open cockpit.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040833
F4U Corsair landing mishap on USS Bunker Hill during World War II

F4U Corsair landing mishap during shakedown cruise of Navy Fighter Squadron VF-17, aboard the carrier, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during World War 2. The event is shown in seen in slow motion. A Douglas SBD Dauntless makes a normal landing. Next, a Corsair, marked 17-F-10, engages a restraining cable but noses over to completely vertical position, and then falls off toward left wing, before settling back. Smoke engulfs the airplane, but quickly clears. Sailors quickly respond, surrounding the aircraft.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040834
USS Bunker Hill shakedown cruise in World War II. F4U noses over while landing. SB2C Helldiver ditched next to the carrier

Mishaps during the shakedown cruise of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in World War 2. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair of VF-17, noses over but settles upright, while landing on the carrier. View from port stern of the Bunker Hill as she passes an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from VB-17, in the water. The pilot and gunner climb over the sinking airplane to board their emergency life raft, already inflated next to the airplane. As the crew of the Bunker Hill watches, the air crewmen board their life raft, as the dive bomber sinks.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, July
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040835
U.S. Navy F4U-1 Corsair aircraft, of Squadron VF-17, noses over during a carrier landing in World War II

View of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) at sea during its shakedown cruise in the Pacific, in 1943, during World War 2. An F4U-1 Corsair aircraft of U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron 17 (VF-17) lands on the carrier deck,and appears to successfully engage its tail hook. However, it bounces, and, noses over, smashing its propeller. The aircraft has a small skull and crossbones painted on its engine cowling, and 17-F-26 painted on its fuselage. In a slow-motion sequence, the aircraft, is seen to be dragged backwards slowly,by arresting gear, along the deck. Responding ship's crew members run towards it. One grabs the right wing to stabilize it.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040836
A Chance Vought F4U Corsair of Navy Squadron VF-17 noses over during landing on USS Bunker Hill during World War II

An F4U Corsair airplane of U.S. Navy Squadron VF-17 is seen in slow motion as it attempts to land on the flight deck of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during its shakedown cruise in 1943. The aircraft displays 17-F-28, on its fuselage. The pilot rounds out high, bounces, apparently missing restraining cables, and ends up nosing over into tail-high vertical position, falling slightly toward its right wing. It settles in about a 70 degree tail high position, as sailors run toward the aircraft as they respond to the emergency.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040837
United States rushes to build new military bases in the Pacific during World War II

Local Pacific Islanders are seen in wooden dugout boats in the vicinity of U.S. Navy warships, in a bay during World War 2. Closeup of a man in one canoe with an outrigger. A boy sitting in one carrying a box of fruit. U.S. military engineers aboard a ship, look at shore with binoculars. Sailors in stern of a boat flying Naval ensign. Sailors on a barge, transport the fuselage and float of a OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane to an island, where they bring it ashore amidst grove of palm trees. Sailors roll 55gallon drums of fuel shore from a barge. A jeep is lowered over the side of a ship and driven ashore. Supplies, including foodstuffs, are brought ashore. Cartons containing canned corned beef; canned cherries, and many other foods, are stacked up in a warehouse. Engineers chart water depth in a bay as they mark boundaries for construction of a seaplane base. Caterpillar tractors level trees and clear land for the base. Soldiers install a 155mm long tom gun in position for coastal defense. Marines prepare temporary shelters of palm fronds. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina seaplane flies overhead.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040839
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