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Trained crew of Patrol Torpedo Boats battle the enemy at sea in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

A Patrol Torpedo Boat crew is ready for a battle against the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. An officer hands out certificates to trainees on the graduation day. The trained crew arrives at an island to fight the enemy. The crew disembarks from a ship and gets on a Patrol Torpedo Boat. 'Waldorf Astoria' written on the door as a sailor shuts it. A gunner named Richard comes next to the man on the wheel. Richard removes a kitten from under his shirt. An officer looks through binoculars and spots an enemy tanker. The crew comes on the deck and prepares to battle. The gunner fires at the enemy ship. The crew fires a torpedo at the enemy ship.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064952
Men wearing diving masks dive underwater in the Pacific Ocean to salvage a Japanese submarine during World War II.

USS Ortolan salvages a Japanese submarine off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A man puts on a diving mask. He jumps into water. He removes the diving mask. U.S. Navy Captain Holland and Captain A.F. Loger at Japanese books. Holland thumbs through Japanese code books. The bow of USS Ortolan in the choppy sea.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1943, June 2
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066728
A Japanese submarine comes up alongside USS Ortolan in the Pacific Ocean during a salvage operation.

USS Ortolan salvages a Japanese submarine off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Sea going tug USS Ortolan underway at sea. A two man Japanese tug alongside USS Ortolan. The conning tower of the submarines protrudes above the water surface. A diver with a diving mask surfaces alongside the Japanese submarine.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1943, June 2
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066729
Sailors aboard USS Ortolan catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

USS Ortolan underway off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. sailor aboard USS Ortolan catches a fish with the help of a fishing rod. The fish being pulled aboard. A sailor holds the fish. In a humorous moment, Navy sailors throw two of their fellow sailors into the ocean, while having fun.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1943, June 2
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066730
TBM Avengers in flight and coming in for landing over the flight deck of a carrier aircraft in the Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. Task Force advances in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Two U.S. Navy torpedo bomber TBM Avengers in flight. A TBM with wheels down in flight. A Battleship underway in the background. A TBM coming in for landing over the flight deck. The bomber crashes into island aboard an unidentified carrier.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069332
U.S. Navy Department develops ships and boats for amphibious assaults during World War II.

Film opens showing the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. Next are views of the U.S. Navy and Munitions building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC (Sign on building reads: "Navy Department.") View of Senior Naval officers in a conference room in the building. Next scene shows a group of military planners discussing a three dimensional model of a Pacific island with landing ships and landing craft near the shore. A group of Army and Navy officers discuss documents as they stand in front of a huge wall map of the world. They walk together and point to the Mediterranean portion of the map. A large sign points toward "Naval Research Lab." Inside a Navy Commander and Lieutenant Commander confer over some maps with two civilians. Next, a room full of draftsmen (including a woman) are seen bent over drawing boards. Two engineers bend over an instrumented cutaway of a ship's hull. Senior military officers sit around a conference table. American and British flags are placed at the end of the room. Closeup of two British officer attendees. Civilian engineers and designers gather around a table. Workers at a shipyard gather on and around a Navy ship that displays a battery of four antiaircraft guns. Men in a foundry preparing to pour molten metal from a ladle into a mold. A milling machine taking a deep cut on the edge of a steel plate. A large engine being moved by an overhead conveyor in a factory. Men fabricating boats in a factory. View, from a moving platform, of men painting a newly manufactured Higgins boat (Landing Craft vehicle personnel, LCVP). A new Landing Ship Tank being launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. USS LSTs 340 and 341 at their launchings in Portsmith.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071822
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