The U.S. Navy battleship, USS Tennessee (BB-43) passing the camera while conducting trials on Long Island Sound, in October, 1920, after being fitted out following her commissioning at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on on June 3, 1920. Her triple turret 14-inch guns are clearly visible as is the name, Tennessee, on her stern. She is seen again, raising plumes of black smoke as she steams in the opposite direction. All four of her triple 14-inch gun turrets are visible in silhouette. She is making good speed in very calm waters. (The camera ship is challenged to keep pace.) The Tennessee maneuvers to port in a fairly sharp turn, and the camera ship moves into her wake. A civilian, in hat and overcoat, is seen momentarily on the camera ship. More views of the Tennessee, include some from a distance as she maneuvers and heads toward the camera ship.
Fleet of United States Task Force 39 ships approach Empress Augusta Bay. Diagram depicts the distances of ships and the aircraft. View of a radar on screen. Diagram shows the direction and formation of ships follow. Fleet of on going ships. Cruisers open fire and explosions occur. Radar shows the range of Northern, Southern and Central groups. (World War II period).
Radar on screen. Diagram depicts the Northern Japanese group firing on 46 Division. Destroyers Thatcher and Spence collide. Fleet of on going ships and explosions on the target. USS Columbia open fires. Diagram shows the distance of Northern Southern and central groups from the range of torpedo fire by 46 Division. Fleet of aircraft bombing on ships below. (World War II period).
Artistic rendition: Naval gunfire attacks by the Japanese on United States cruisers. One of the U.S. cruisers is destroyed by the attack. Star shells fired by the Japanese enemy. Diagram shows the Task Force Division 46 and Division 45 ships advancing toward the Japanese Northern Enemy Group. Division 46 fires torpedoes at the cruisers. CIC personnel check graphs. Heavy bombing on the enemy ships. (World War II period).
View from boat in the water as a U.S. F6F Hellcat aircraft takes off from Torokina fighter strip, Cape Torokina, Bougainville, during World War 2. The aircraft climbs out directly overhead. A small boat is seen at the beach and military vehicles move along the airfield roads. A P-39 aircraft taxis onto the runway and takes off in the opposite direction from the just-departed F6F. Military engineer equipment is seen working on the airstrip. A number of P-39s are parked beside the runway, close to surrounding trees. An F4U Corsair aircraft takes off towards the water (and camera), passing directly over a construction tractor working on the field. Another Corsair takes off over the heads of two armed sentries, and yet, another takes off immediately afterwards. View from the water, as an F4U flies low overhead toward the field for landing.
U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Heligoland island in Germany during World War II. B-17s in flight. Several aerial views of the island and another island next to it. Smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks on Heligoland island. A runway on the island in the background. Heavy flak. German coastline: Heligoland and Friesian islands. Bomb craters and smoke from burning oil storage tanks. Bombs are dropped from Allied aircraft. The aircraft are in formation over clouds.
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