Starboard beam view of a Russian Kresta class cruiser (No. 542) underway in the Mediterranean Ocean. Russian missile submarine of Juliett or J-class underway. Sonar bulge can be seen on bow of the submarine. Russian "F" class or Foxtrot class submarine on surface. "J" class Russian submarine on surface.
P-38 planes attack and strafe buildings, railways, and roads in Germany. Use of P-38 as F5B reconnaissance plane. Performance as fighter bomber and as rocket launcher. Smoke after explosion forms clouds. Scenes of destroyed areas. (World War II period).
Gulf of Tonkin during Vietnam War. Several U.S. Navy pilots walk on the deck area near the ship's island. 200th mission for Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas P Anderson, who walks away from the ship's island. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island. LTJG Anderson walks towards an A-4F Skyhawk, inspects the entire aircraft, climbs up, lowers the canopy and takes off. Commanding officer Robert J Thomson congratulates the pilot on landing. Both men walk across the deck area.
U.S. aircraft during on the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam during Vietnam War. U.S. Navy pilots walk with different equipment on the deck. Number 65 in bold written on the lower portion of ship's island. Lieutenant Commander Paul D Stephenson walks towards an A-4F Skyhawk parked near the island. LCDR Stephenson gives his bag to crew. Pilot inspects the engines, climbs up and puts on oxygen mask. Pilot Stephenson lowers the canopy and takes off as the crew shows signal. On returning Commanding officer J L Nicholson congratulates Stephenson and both of them walk away.
Fire crews work to extinguish smoldering remains of multiple aircraft destroyed by fire on the deck and fantail area of the USS Enterprise in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Fire fighters hold fire hose and spray water over burnt aircraft. Two men climb up the aircraft and inspect. Some of the destroyed aircraft are A-7A and F-4J. Men walk and run all over the deck area. Several A-4FSkyhawk aircraft parked in background. Sailors observe several gaping holes on the bulkhead and deck from bombs that exploded during the fire. Fire hoses and water spread allover the flight deck while ship is moving slowly in the water with light visible wake. Portions of the deck sides are destroyed and crumbling. A forklift works to push aircraft debris off of the fantail and overboard.
On the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during a fire caused by detonation of a Zuni rocket. Scores of sailors manning fire hoses and working to put out fires raging on multiple aircraft parked on the deck. Thick black smoke in the air. F-4 Aircrafts parked on the deck shrouded in smoke.
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