Film opens with aerial view of a U.S. Navy submarine squadron of the Asiatic Fleet, afloat, with approximately 20 submarines clustered alongside their tender, USS Holland (AS-3). Views from a small boat (unseen) circling the boats show the Hollsnd, from near the USS Shark (SS-174). Camera boat moves past submarine numbered P7 and the USS S-29 (SS-134) docked next to it. View on from deck of the tender shows submarines clustered around her. Sailors work on her lines, as they stand near one of her 5-inch guns. views of machine shop aboard the tender, showing sailors at work. One is machining a part on a lathe. Another is working on a saltwater depth guage. Sailors placing torpedoes into the tender's storage vaults. Scene shifts to sailors holding line on a diver under water doing repair work on the tender. Sailors placing supplies aboard the USS Permit (SS-178) as it prepares for a practice diving cruise. The USS Plunger (SS-179) is seen next to it. Submarines: USS Pickerel (SS-177), USS Salmon (SS-182),USS Seal (SS-183), and USS Pollack (SS-180), are also seen. The USS Permit moves to get underway. Several boats are seen maneuvering, including the USS Skipjack (SS-184) and the USS Sturgeon (SS-187).
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
A crew truck is pulled up in front of a parked F4U Corsair airplane (number 036) of the Marine Aircraft Group 11. ("MAG-11"is displayed on door of the crew truck.) A seat pack parachute sits on the truck fender. Plane captain straddles the cockpit of the airplane. Pilots gather next to the aircraft as the senior officer gives a last minute briefing after which they pick up their parachutes and head toward their respective aircraft. The pilot of aircraft number 036 climbs into his cockpit with help from his plane captain, starts the engine and taxis out for takeoff. F4U number 081 is seen taxiing out.Two F4U Corsairs are seen taking off.
Street scene in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, shows American Red Cross Service Club, next to a florist shop, on Shipquay Place, Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Civilians walk past on the sidewalk. A bicyclist passes in the street. Several U.S. sailors come out of the passage to the club. A U.S. Marine and a sailor stop to look in the florist shop window. Sign in window reads: "We Can Send Flowers by Wire to U.S.A. & Canada." A bus passes. Two men pass with a pushcart. A marine stops to chat with the sailors at the club entrance. Another bus passes. A bus stops and U.S. sailors and marines run to catch it as it pulls out, without success. They return to the sidewalk by the Northern Bank building. Later, sailors are seen boarding a another bus parked at the curb.
Lieutenant Donald Malmsten (by prop) and Lt. Jerome Jahnke (kneeling center) , of the U.S. 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group ((formerly Eagle Squadron number 71) talk with ground crewmen, beside Major Gerald Montgomery's P-51D named: "Sizzlin Liz." at Debden Airbase, England. Major Howard "Deacon" Hively briefing large group of ground crew members beside P-51. He dismisses them with good natured wave of his hand and they leave hurriedly.
Groundcrewman fueling tank of a P-47 thunderbolt aircraft of 8th Air Force in England. P47s and P-38s take off to escort B-17 bombers on mission to Emden, Germany. One P-38, tail number 42-67057, is from the 338th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group. Scenes of American B-17 bombers in formation, escorted by P-47 and P-38 fighters. B-17s from the 95th Bomb Group (13th Bomb Wing) at Horham, UK, and B-17s from the 305th Bomb Group (40th Bomb Wing) at Chelveston, UK. Gun camera scenes of German fighters being hit by P-47 gunfire. Planes flying over clouds. Flight of four P-38s joins the formation. P-38 gun camera views of German fighters being destroyed. Scenes of crew members inside B-17 bombers under attack by fighters and flak. German fighters attacking the formation of bombers head-on.
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