Three U.S. Marine Corp UH 34D helicopters from the USS Spiegel Grove (LSD 32) are viewed from a fourth one while engaged in practice maneuvers while underway to support the Mercury-Atlas 7 NASA orbital mission. Views of helicopters in formation and the USS Spiegel Grove underway in calm seas.
The USS Vicksburg (CL-86) in camouflage paint, is seen still in the water, providing support with her 5 inch and 6 inch guns during the invasion of Okinawa in World War 2. Views of American dive bombers striking Japanese targets nearby, inland. As the camera follows the diving planes, it gives closeup of the superstructure of the Vicksburg.
An amphibious vehicle (DUKW number 284) carrying U.S. wounded from Okinawa battlefield during World War 2. It ties up to a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) aka Higgins boat, from the Attack Transport, USS Callaway (APA-35). Coast Guardsmen in the Higgins boat work with crew of the DUKW to transfer the wounded to their boat. The next sequence shows the Higgins boat tied up to the USS Callaway and wounded being tranported aboard on stretchers. The Callaway deck is fulled with troops and equipment, some of which is being moved by cranes, to a landing craft at her side. Another transport ship is seen in the background, and several U.S. Navy warships in the distance.
U.S. Officers seated at a planning table aboard a U.S. warship during World War 2. They refer occasionally, to a stack of papers (battle plans or intelligence reports) as they point to a relief map of Iwo Jima. They discuss various places on Iwo Jima.
Voyage of President Woodrow Wilson and Paris Peace Conference delegation en route from France back to the United States in June 1919. Delegation poses together on the deck in three rows. View of one of the ship officers of the USS George Washington leaning on a railing and talking. Another of the ship's officers smiling and talking. Various civilian delegation members standing in a group talking. In an elaborately posed scene, ship's Officers and Crew pose with President Woodrow Wilson. Sailors are positioned across the ship's superstructure, like circus performers. Seated in the center of the photograph (from left to right, just to left of the line running from the mast to the deck) are: Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, USN (MC), the President's physician; Captain Edward McCauley, ship's Commanding Officer; and President Woodrow Wilson.
Gun crew of the German commerce raider, Auxiliary Cruiser 'SMS Möwe (Seagull)' preparing to torpedo British steamer "Georgic, " during World War 1. The Georgic was bound from Philadelphia to Brest and Liverpool with cargo of munitions. The Moewe intercepted her in the Atlantic sea, and after removing her crew, prepares to sink her. Crew of the Möwe fire a torpedo which hits the Georgic. Explosion seen at waterline. The Georgic begins to sink and then capsizes and goes down. View as she slips below the surface of the sea.
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