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Montage of several airplane crash sites in World War II, with Navy firefighters extinguishing flames in wreckage

Views of several different crash sites at U.S. Naval bases in World War 2. Firefighter in protective suit directs stream of foam on smoldering wreckage of what appears to be a crashed low wing single engine monoplane. Several sailors and an officer also help and are seen putting out the last remaining flames. An armed marine guard watches over destroyed parts of an engine, propeller and cowling sitting in a field. In change of scene, an officer directs a firefighter in protective gear as he hoses foam on the wreckage of a larger crashed aircraft. Shallow hole in ground is shown. Another scene shows sailors working around numerous pieces of aircraft wreckage laid out on the ground. Next sequence shows sailors running toward a smoking crash site.A vehicle with flag on it's bumper is parked nearby. Sailors direct hoses on the wreckage and smoke rises from it. Armed Marines walk about the area. The smoldering wreckage indicates this was a relatively small aircraft. In final scene, firefighters in protective gear, without helmets, direct hoses on another crash site. Flames persist.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035347
PBY-5 Catalina starts, taxis across ramp and into water during World War II. it taxis in water and returns again

Plane's Captain and a sailor check oil on engines of a U.S. Navy PBY Catalina amphibian before starting during World War 2. Plane Captain and sailor turn props through by hand in preparation for starting. Engines started on PBY-5 Catalina. This sequence is repeated from different angle. It taxis across the hard ramp, past a sandbagged antiaircraft gun emplacement. The aircraft proceeds down a ramp into the water, where it continues taxiing slowly. In next sequence, it is seen returning again.

Date: 1942, August
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035349
Attacks by Japanese aircraft as seen from the USS Yorktown (CV-10), during World War II in the Pacific

Glimpses of ship's island, deck crews, antiaircraft guns and F6F aircraft parked with wings folded on the USS Yorktown (CV-10), in the Pacific, during World War 2. A U.S. escort carrier and a destroyer nearby. Flak low on horizon as U.S. ships fire at a attacking Japanese airplane flying only a few feet above the water. Crew of the USS Yorktown stands watching as the attacking airplane turns and crashes at the stern of the Yorktown. Another Japanese attacker flies just over the stern and is hit by Yorktown's gunners, bursting into flames and crashing into the sea, with a huge explosion. An F6F recovers on the flight deck.The United States class light cruiser Cleveland.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049026
Amphibious training in Pacific during World War II. Medics treat several Marines injured during the exercises in World War II.

View from ship flying U.S. Navy church pennant above the American flag, during amphibious assault training in the Pacific, during World War 2. Several Marines injured during the exercises are given first aid and transported by Coast Guard crew of landing craft. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) pulls alongside ramp of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Navy personnel standing on ramp. A litter patient smoking a cigarette, brought aboard a LCVP. Litter patients on the well deck of a LCVP. Marine with face injury receives treatment.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020455
Fletcher Class Destroyer and amphibious vehicles during amphibious training exercises in Pacific during WWII

Amphibious training in Pacific during Second World War. Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVT) in the water. Ships at anchor. LVTs underway towards the beach. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) convoy anchored off shore. A view of the beach area. Explosions on the beach. Amphibious vehicles with United States Marines approach the beach. A United States Navy Fletcher Class destroyer and a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) off shore. LVTs, in column, heading for the beach. Hills in the background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020457
U.S. Marine baptized by Chaplain in ocean. Amphibious task force at anchor offshore.

A U.S. Marine and Chaplain stand on the loading ramp of a Landing Ship Tank (LST). Surf breaking over the ramp as the Marine is baptized by the chaplain. Destroyer Escort Silhouetted on the horizon. Variety of Navy vessels comprising an amphibious task force, anchored offshore.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020458