An AJ Savage aircraft lands on the USS Midway (CVB-41). Another is seen in a landing pattern around the ship. Two F2H banshee aircraft land on the carrier. One is seen taxiing on the deck after landing.
View of gunner inside a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft on patrol in World War 2. He demonstrates firing his 50 caliber machine gun, rotating it through various angles. The wind from the open canopy blows his clothing. Change of scene shows bombs dropping from under a PBY. The sequence shifts again, back to the gunner at his station.
Navigator, aboard a U.S. Navy PBY aircraft on patrol during World War 2, prepares to take Sun line readings with a sextant. A radio operator, wearing a headset, types a message, and hands an incoming message to another crew member.
Navigator aboard U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY aircraft lays out an over-water course on a navigation chart during World War 2. He refers to a mission folder containing orders for the flight. View of the pilot in cockpit, taken from the floor below him. View of copilot from same vantage point, as he looks through binoculars, and then passes them to the pilot, who speaks to crew on intercom. Scene shifts back to navigator at his plotting table.
View of wave structure from the rear side of a U.S. Navy war vessel in World War 1. The navy sailors locate an underwater target. The commander orders to destroy the target. Mariners drop depth charges into the water. A big blast in the sea and water impulse waves seen.
President Harry S. Truman, in shirt and tie, without his jacket, and wearing a sailors hat, strolls along the deck of the heavy cruiser, USS Augusta(CA-31) as she makes way in the Atlantic headed toward Europe, following the end of World War 2. A member of his party points out something of interest on the deck. The Augusta test firing her 5 inch guns. Turret 3 main battery 8 inch 55 caliber guns fire one salvo. Views of bow waves and ship's wake astern, as the Augusta and accompanying ships proceed at 27 knots.
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