Sailors relaxing on flight deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in final days of World War 2. An F6F behind them with wings folded. Ship's Island displays numerous nautical signal flags. Sailors in bathing suits watching some activity taking place below, on the hangar deck.
Activities abroad United States aircraft carrier, USS Wasp (CV-18) in Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Sailors play basketball. in a court set up on hangar deck of the ship. Captain W.G. Switzer and several crew members watch the game from guard rail at the flight deck, above. F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft of VF-81, with wings folded, are parked behind them.
Four F6F aircraft in pairs, fly over the Aircraft Carrier, USS Hancock (CV-19) with their landing gears down, preparing to recover on the carrier. Scene shifts abruptly to a spash off to starboard, where an SB2C Helldiver has ditched, or crashed, in the water. The aircraft submerged almost completely with only parts of it seen above the water surface. It sinks rpidly out of sight.
Attack on Japanese Destroyer (DD), battleships and cargo vessels by U.S. aircraft in Manila, Philippines during World War II. A Japanese DD under rocket attack. Rocket runs on Japanese cruiser ship and battleship. Strafing attack on anchored Japanese ship and carrier. Large bomb explosions near a Japanese tanker. U.S. aircraft strafes wooden Japanese cargo vessel. Bombing attack on a large tanker. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat Fighter plane strafes and fires rockets. U.S. Army aircraft SB2C Helldiver in flight fires rockets.
U.S. Army Air Forces VIII Fighter Command Operation in the European Theater during World War II. 1st LT. A F Blunt from 334 Sqdn., 4th F.G.trails a German fighter aircraft Focke Wulf 190 (FW-190). The aircraft explodes. Grasslands seen.
Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Wounded Marines lying on stretchers are loaded aboard an aircraft. A walking wounded is helped to board an aircraft. A soldier loads shells in an 81 mm mortar. The mortar being fired. U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat and TBM Avenger aircraft strafe Iwo Jima. Litter patients being loaded onto an aircraft for evacuation.
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