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A large number of visitors board the USS Wasp at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington

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.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055306
Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific after explosion of TBF Avenger on deck

Fire fighting aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Western Pacific Ocean off the coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Sailors direct fire hoses on a burning TBF Avenger and hole in the flight deck. The TBF Avenger had returned from a sortie, landed on the deck, taxied near the island and then exploded. 50 sailors were killed and 75 injured. Corpsmen carry wounded man on stretcher across flight deck. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, January 21
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055312
Bodies committed to ocean and Marine rifle salute in mass funeral ceremony aboard USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean.

Mass funeral aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean. Bodies committed to ocean in Mass Funeral Ceremony. Multiple crews of six men each carry dead sailors, wrap each in the U.S. flag, place them on a board and tip them into the ocean. Marines fire rifle salute. View of sheet covered bodies on lower deck awaiting burial at sea. The 50 men were killed in a January 21, 1945 accident when a TBF Avenger returned from a sortie in the area of Formosa (Taiwan). It landed on the deck and taxied near the island, and then exploded killing 50 men and injuring 75. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, January
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055313
USS Hancock CVA-19 approaches to port of USS Mattaponi AO-41Oiler for refueling in the Pacific

USS Hancock CVA-19, on patrol at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War, approaches port side of USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler for refueling. Fuel line from USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler to USS Hancock CV-19. Men wear life jackets on the ship. Crew of second division handles lines. One man of second division holds the line during refueling. A man high lined from USS Mattaponi AO-41 Oiler to USS Hancock CV-19 during refueling. He reaches the Sponson deck.

Date: 1965, February 12
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055331
U.S. F8E Crusader in flight fires rocket during an air strike in South Vietnam.

United States aircraft in flight for an air strike, South Vietnam. U.S. F8E Crusader in flight low fires a rocket. Plane pulls up from the target area. It banks off to left and moves on the run. It moves for attack at Tay Ninh. A rocket fired and explodes on the ground. Plane in flight banks off to its right on its attack on the Viet Cong Concentration. A rocket explodes in a patch of woods. Plane over a jungle. It banks in and strafes the area. Smoke rises from the target area. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, March 29
Duration: 4 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055336
Deck crew men work on damaged U.S. F6F Hellcat Fighter plane on the deck of USS Hancock CV19 in the Pacific Ocean.

Activities aboard USS Hancock (CV-19) in the Pacific Ocean, during World War 2. Opening scene shows remains of a General Motors TBM Avenger aircraft from Torpedo Squadron Seven (VT-7) that crashed on landing. The forward cockpit area appears intact, but behind that, the fuselage is torn off and sits separately on the flight deck. Sailors move the the tail section closer to the edge of the deck. Sailors and some flight crew stand on the deck, as the Hancock appears to be underway at high speed, judging by the water in background. Scene gets dark (underexposed) as sailors move the wreckage. Next, a crane is seen erected and lifting the main wreckage. But the load drops back down on the deck. Filming is interrupted, but picks up again, as the mobile crane carries the wreckage to the edge of the deck and drops it into the ocean.

Date: 1944, December 14
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055343