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Aircraft take off from the USS Midway (CVA-41) underway and crew watch Napalm bomb explode in South China Sea.
United States Navy 7th Fleet operations in South China Sea during the Vietnam War. A United States Navy aircraft A-3B Skyhawk rolls to a stop. The wire is released and wings are folded. Aircraft taxis off to the left. A-4E catapulted from starboard. Others wait in the foreground. United States Navy aircraft A-4E Skyhawk taxis up to deck. United States Navy aircraft A-3B Skywarrior parked in the background. A United States Navy aircraft F-8D Crusader being catted from catapult. A-4E Skyhawk on a catapult. A-4E Skyhawk catted from catapult. Blast fence being lowered in the foreground. F-8D Crusader catted. A-4E Skyhawk on fly by past the ship during air demonstration. Napalm bomb hits the water in far background making a fireball. Several crew members on flight deck watch. Smoke rises from water as Napalm bombs explode.
Aircraft parked on the deck of USS America (CVA-66) and ships refueled from USS America in the Mediterranean Sea.
Refueling from Kitty Hawk class supercarrier USS America in the Mediterranean Sea. The stern of Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23) off the starboard quarter of aircraft carrier USS America while being refueled. Aircraft parked on flight deck. Gearing-class destroyer USS William R. Rush along USS America being refueled. United States Navy A-3B Skywarrior, Douglas A-4C Skyhawk and F-4B Phantom aircraft parked in a group on the flight deck. USS America refueling USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23) and USS William R. Rush (DD-714). The port side of the carrier. The flight deck is clear.
U.S. 1st Marine Division invades the Palau Islands during World War II.
Film opens with animated map showing places in the Pacific near the island of Palau. A formation of U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Glimpse from the air of the Palau archipelago. Aerial view from a B-24 of its bombs exploding on the center of a Japanese airfield below. Aerial view of a U.S. Independence-class Aircraft carrier of Task Force 58. Officers and sailors on carrier island watch as a Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft takes off .from the aircraft displays geometric marking on its tail, known as a "G-symbol." In this case it is a large white diamond containing the airplane number inside another diamond. (The United States Navy Pacific Fleet, assigned G-Symbols to the CV and CVL class carriers of Task Force 58. These were assigned to each carrier and appeared on all aircraft operating from it. ) A formation of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft flying above clouds. Closeup of one with diamond G-symbol and number on its tail. Broad view from the air of TBF Avenger aircraft in flight and Navy warships maneuvering in waters below. Sea level views of some warships in the Third Fleet. One is a Portland-class Cruiser. Wide aerial view of ships in the task force. Cruisers and battleships bombarding Palau and nearby targets. Closeup of heavy cruiser USS Louisville (CA 28) firing her port side 5 inch 25 caliber guns and 40 mm A/A guns from the stern.. A TBF Avenger dive bombs a shore target. More views of warships with shells bursting in background. Shells bursting at the shoreline. Closeup glimpse of marines in landing craft U.S. Marine Corps LVT(A)4 Amphibious Tanks heading toward the beach on September 15, 1944. An LCI(L) Landing Craft Infantry (Large) firing close to shore. Shells striking shoreline installations. View from aircraft of landing craft speeding toward the beach and many more maneuvering offshore. Closeup of marines moving about on the shore of Palau with smoke rising and sounds of gunfire. A marine running through foliage at the shore. Marines manning a command post and communications center in the jungle. Marines firing rifles from a tree line. One firing a Browning M1919 machine gun and another throwing a hand grenade. Marines firing rifle grenades. Marines move forward and encounter a dead Japanese soldier lying next to his flame thrower. They reach the edge of the airfield, where two Japanese aircraft are just barely seen. They walk past dead Japanese at a machine gun emplacement. More views of Marines fighting at the edge of the airfield, and entering into the open area of the field, where fires are burning. .Wrecked Japanese aircraft are seen on the field. Marine infantry cross the field behind an M4 Sherman tank. Barges are seen carrying construction cranes and equipment to the island. A tracked crane drives onto the airfield. Bulldozers work on the edge of the airfield. A power shovel fills trucks with coral deposit material for resurfacing the airfield. Trucks dumping their contents at the field. Bulldozers and earth scrapers level the airfield surface. A TBF Avenger aircraft is the first to land on the unpaved airfield.
Joint British-French Naval Exercise in the Mediterranean Sea in 1950
Ships underway during Joint maneuvers of combined British and French Naval units in the Mediterranean Sea. British Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten and French Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Robert Lambert, on the deck of the French Aircraft carrier "Arromanches (R95)." (This is the British HMS Colossus -R15, renamed while on loan to the French.) A British-made Seafire aircraft of French Aéronavale Flottille 12F, rises to the deck on an elevator. Next, with engines running, it takes off under direction of a French signal officer. Several more Aéronavale Flottille 12F Seafire aircraft take off in succession. Aerial view of Seafire aircraft in formation. Aerial view, looking down on the aircraft carrier. Planes in the formation of Seafire aircraft peel off one at a time and descend to landing pattern altitude. The first buzzes the Carrier and goes around. Three more are seen making landings on the carrier under guidance of French controller using paddles
U.S. Marines launch amphibious assault against Japanese forces at Betio, Tarawa Atoll, in the Pacific during World War II
Scene is dawn viewed from deck of a troop transport ship off the coast of Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, on D-day (November 20, 1943) for the amphibious assault by U.S. marines against the Japanese- held atoll, in World War 2. Marines loaded into a Higgins boat at the side of the transport ship. Several such landing craft maneuvering off the ship's bow. Benson-class destroyer bombarding the coast. Closer view of the destroyer with landing craft nearby. Glimpse of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber above. Two bombs exploding in water near the camera ship. U.S. Navy F4F aircraft flying low bombing and strafing. Glimpse of Navy warships bombarding after Navy planes depart. Then many landing craft are seen, some from the USS Sheridan (APA-51). Mixture of quick views showing naval gunfire, Marines in landing craft (including closeup of two marines looking out from inside one). U.S. Naval aircraft bombing inland, close to the shoreline. A derelict Japanese ship, displaying battle damage is seen in the surf. (Narrator notes that Japanese machine guns were set up and fired at landing craft from this hulk.) Closeup of radio operator on deck of invasion vessel. Views of amphibious landing vehicles tracked (LVT) moving toward shore. All American Higgins boats and LVTs subject to heavy Japanese machine gun and mortar fire, as well as bombing by Japanese Aichi D3A dive bombers. Burning landing craft in the surf. Landing craft arriving at the beach under heavy fire. One is marked, "KA 20-11" indicating it is from the USS Virgo (AKA-20). Long shot of Marines strung out on section of beach. Closeup of marines wading ashore from wrecked LVT. Several marines move along a concrete pier. Many marines are hunkered down behind it. Various views of marines pinned down on the beach. Some sheltered behind an LVT.
Marines of 9th Regiment, 2nd Battalion engaged in Operation Thor, during Vietnam War.
U.S. Marines of "F" Company , 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, near Xuan Hai, Vietnam during Operation Thor. Weary marines trudge back from a scouting mission. A marine with a 35 mm still camera around his neck. A marine with an M-16 rifle stands guard near unit packs and gear piled on the ground. A marine with an M-16 rifle walks in the foreground. Marines in the grassy area in the far background. A U.S. Marine Corps F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber dives on a target and fires rockets. Explosion from the rocket strike. A jet aircraft in flight high above.
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