Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation during World War II. German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt bf-109 in flight. Lt J B Dickson from the 358 Sqdn.,355 F.G. attacks the Me 109 aircraft. Part of the tail section of the aircraft blows away.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation during World War II. German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt-110 in flight. 2nd Lt A Roberson from 362 Sqdn.,357 F.G. attacks the Messerschmitt-110.The aircraft explodes.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation during World War II. German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt-110s in flight above the ocean. 2nd LT R E Pagels from the 363 Sqdn.,357 F.G. attacks the aircraft. The aircraft explodes after the attack.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation during World War II. Capt G V Davis from 364 Sqdn.,357 F.G. attacks the German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt-110 (ME-110). The fighter aircraft Focke Wulf-190 (FW-190) taxis and leaves the ground. FW-190 under attack. Grasslands seen.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation during World War II.Maj T L Hayes from 364 Sqdn.,357 F.G. attacks the German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt-110 (ME-110) and Heinkel-111. The aircraft strafes buildings and small town. Parked aircraft and aircraft hangar seen.
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