USS Balao underway in the Pacific Ocean. The submarine underway. Bow of the submarine. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat in flight. U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver ditching and landing. Men standing on the bow of submarine. Submarine approaching men on life raft from SB2C. Men taken aboard the submarine. They discuss. F6F airplane in flight. Lookout aboard the submarine.
A film titled: 'Fighter Photo-Eyes of the Fleet' on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A board reads: "Composite Squadron Sixty One - VC-61" outside a building of Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, United States. F9F Panther aircraft in formation fly by. A jeep arrives. A pilot gets off the jeep. The pilot arrives near the building. Men load cameras in an airplane. Interior of an office. Officers seated at a desk in the office. The pilot shakes hands with the officers. They look at a model of an aircraft. The pilot walks with his luggage. A jeep arrives near him. He shakes hands with the man driving the jeep and talks to him. He sits in the jeep. The jeep drive away. Buildings along the sides of a street. The jeep comes to a halt and the man gets off. Man enters building with sign "BOQ Office". Inside a man loads film into a camera. The man seated with other crew members inside a building. An officer instructs them on aerial reconnaissance photography techniques in the classroom. View of three Republic F9F Panther aircraft in formation flight overhead. The man looks at the aircraft. He writes a formula and explains to the crew.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A U.S. Navy pilot plays table tennis with other man. A friend of the pilot arrives and says that they would be going to Korea together for a mission. A Grumman F9F Panther aircraft takes off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. A crew seated in a briefing room. An officer briefs them. The pilot is not sent to the mission. Men standing along the sides of the aircraft carrier. Another F9F aircraft takes off from the carrier. The pilot looks at the aircraft. The aircraft flying in formation.
Carrier activity aboard USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) in United States. U.S. Navy aircraft F9F-5 Panther on the flight deck. Aircraft launched from port and starboard catapults. F9F-5 aircraft taxied towards catapult. Bow of USS Philippine Sea. Two aircraft on catapult. Officer gives signal for catapulting. Another plane positioned.
Two F9F-2s of VF-112 are catapulted from the deck of the USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) during the Korean War. Deck crew seen attaching bridle under aircraft. Two F9F-2s, of VC-61, Unit C, are set on the catapult, given signals, and catapulted, successively.
F6F aircraft being recovered on the deck of the USS Hancock (CV19) during World War 2. One F6F Hellcat simply flies past, overhead, and drops a message on the deck. A crew man collects the message and runs back across the deck, with it.
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