Radio facilities and broadcasts in Japan before World War 2. Japanese radio facilities in Tokyo. Broadcasting to South America. Radio towers and radio facilities in Tokyo, Japan. Building of Radio Broadcast Center. A Japanese radio announcer speaking in Spanish. Flag of Japan on the building. Interior of the building. A Japanese conductor walks to podium and prepares to conduct orchestra. Musical instruments or in-studio orchestra play. Animated map of Latin America and South America. Sign on the animated map. Animated map describes radio broadcast in Mexico and South America. Animated map of Japan shows Tokyo.
U.S. Invasion of Okinawa in World War 2. Several DUKWs underway loaded with personnel, equipment and at least one 105mm howitzer. The battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, in background. An OS2U Kingfisher patrol seaplane in a low approach. LSM(R)-194 launches 5-inch rockets at Okinawa. Smoke covered shore of the island of Okinawa. LSM(R)-196 and LSM(R)-197 launch 5-inch rockets at Okinawa.
Aircraft carrier landing training for Navy pilots at Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. View of North American T-2 Buckeye aircraft performing simulated aircraft carrier deck landing on a land runway configured with a mirror optical system to simulate a real aircraft carrier landing. North American T-2 Buckeye in flight over Gulf of Mexico with point of view shot from inside aircraft as it approaches carrier deck of USS Lexington (CV-16) to practice carrier landing. View from USS Lexington flight deck as T-2 Buckeye aircraft perform arrested landings. Pilot exits the aircraft having completed basic training. Next, during advanced jet training at Kingsville, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Grumman F-9 Cougar jet aircraft seen landing on airstrip. Pilots in class learn using working mockups and in a procedures trainer. Instructors and students in classroom training. View of student in cockpit simulator. He demonstrates control panel to them and gives training of jet flight procedure and its handling in odd situations. Pilot and instructor in F-9 Cougar on runway as wings descend into position for flight. Aerial view of F-9 Cougar aircraft in flight.
Naval aviator in training seen flying a F9 Cougar aircraft and practicing air to air gunnery and bombing and low level navigation. Aircraft landing on USS Lexington (CV-16) in Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi, Texas. Pilot Point of view (POV) shot from inside cockpit of aircraft as it descends approaching aircraft carrier deck for landing. Pilot performs arrested landing on deck of aircraft carrier. Two Grumman F-11 Tiger jet aircraft taking off from a ground runway, in tandem. Aerial views of formation of F-11 Tiger aircraft as they perform aerial rendezvous operations and fly in formation and in hunter-killer formation. Two F-11 aircraft perform strafing operations and aerial tactics and high altitude radar intercepts. View of pilot in cockpit of US Navy S-2 Tracker anti-submarine aircraft, and then aerial view of S-2 Tracker aircraft in flight over water. Pilots training in helicopters. A pilot flying a Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter at Ellyson Field near Pensacola. Close-up view of pilot and instructor inside Bell H-13 helicopter in flight. View of H-34 Seahorse helicopter in flight and landing. Pilots get their wings pinned on during ceremony. African American naval aviator has his wings pinned on him by his wife. Senior captain representing chief of naval air advance training pins wings on pilot's uniform in a ceremony. View of P-3 Orion aircraft parked on airfield and pilot walking away from aircraft. View of P-3 Orion aircraft taking off directly overhead of viewer at end of runway. SH-2 Seasprite helicopter taking off and in flight out of Key West, Florida. F4B Phantoms. Navy pilots in briefing on an aircraft carrier learn about a training operation.
Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande on border patrol mission between United States and Mexico.
An animated graphic shows Japanese gunfire near Naha Okinawa pounding U.S. 420th Group artillery positions located on the small island of Keise Jima, near Okinawa. Also animation of the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Tuscaloosa, moving in to provide counterfire against the Japanese batteries near Naha. Actual views of U.S. warships provide a floating mobile artillery to support the ground troops. U.S. warships firing on Japanese artillery positions near Naha Airfield. Details seen include: At time 00:36, the battleship USS New Mexico, BB-40, firing a starboard mounted 5in/25cal gun. Time 00:40 is the battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43 in camouflage Measure 32v1, Design 1D earlier in the war. Time 00:52 is the battleship USS Colorado, BB-45, in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3D and in the background is the battleship USS West Virginia in camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. (World War II period)