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F4F aircraft crash on aircraft carrier, USS Wasp (CV-7) prior to U.S. entry into World War II

Crash of a Grumman F4F-3 aircraft from U.S. Navy Squadron VF-42, on the carrier, USS Wasp, early in 1941. In a slow motion sequence, a U.S. Navy F4F-3, with F-42-17 painted on its side (BuNo 2537) is seen rounded out too high for landing, above all arresting cables, and drifting into the carrier's island, where it impacts, losing its right wing, and flipping over to crash inverted on the flight deck. Sailors stand in the background. After the aircraft settles, a sailor runs across the deck to render aid. (Note: Navy Squadrons VF-42 and VF-71, assigned to the USS Wasp, received their F4F-3 Wildcats in January and February of 1941 under Bureau of Aeronautics contract C-68219, order number 48-020. These aircraft were painted overall aluminum with VF-42 having willow green tails and VF-71 having black tails. Later in 1941 the aircraft were repainted overall light gray.)

Date: 1941
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027774
Fleet Oiler, USS Neches (AO-47) fuels an aircraft carrier during heavy seas in World War II

U.S. Fleet Oiler, USS Neches ( AO-47) is seen refueling an aircraft carrier during heavy seas and weather in the Pacific in World War 2. At one point the rudder of the USS Neches is seen exposed as she pitches. In final part of the sequence, the number 47 can be seen clearly on the bow of the Neches as viewed from a covered deck on the carrier. Note: A crew member on the Neches added the following inforrmation: "This fueling of the fleet was just days before we sailed into an inlet off the island of Okinawa. Several days later we shot down a suicide plane while anchored there in the inlet. I was the sightsetter on the 5 inch gun that shot the plane down. We hit it on our third shot and it splashed into the water just shy of an LST, its target. The plane's original target was our Neches but, after the first shot, it turned and headed toward the LST. My memory tells me it was on April 7th."

Date: 1945, April 2
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027917
Saga of a U.S. Navy Task Group, the USS Guadalcanal and escorts, that captures the German U Boat (U-505) in World War 2

Historic U.S. Navy capture of German submarine (U-505) during World War 2. Crew assembles on flight deck of the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). Its Captain, Daniel V. Gallery, looks out from deck above. A Task Group of the Atlantic Fleet, consisting of the Guadalcanal, and five Destroyer escorts: the Pillsbury, Chatelain, Pope, Flaherty and Jenks, proceeds to operate against German submarines West of the Cape Verde Islands. Aboard the Guadalcanal, men train to capture a submarine, intact, if possible. The boarding team includes: Chief Photographer's Mate, Clifford Werler; Chief Pharmacist, Raymond Jackson; LTJG Mylo Keck; Ensign Fred Mittaugh; and Electrician First Class, William Stein; Ensign James Griffin; Machinist Mate 2nd Class, Walter Waller and Commander Earl Torcino. On June 4, 1944, the USS Chatelein makes sound contact with a submarine. The Task Group attacks it and forces it to surface under heavy gunfire. The German crew is rescued. Task Force boarding party successfully occupies and prevents the U-505 from sinking.

Date: 1944, June 4
Duration: 9 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027930
Holland type submarine of the Plunger class being tested by civilian technicians of Electric Boat Company.

Holland type submarine of the Plunger class tied up at the Electric Boat Company at New Suffolk, Long Island , New York circa 1902. Civilian technicians standing on deck of the boat.. They load a torpedo aboard, using a block and tackle.. It goes down into the hull of the submarine. The Holland type submarine running at periscope, fires the torpedo. The torpedo runs just below the surface, leaving a visible wake. The submarine rises and runs along a conning tower depth. It dives again and rises again.

Date: 1904
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027950
Holland type submarine of the Plunger class undergoing trials at Electric Boat Company

Holland type submarine of the Plunger class undergoing trials at the Electric Boat Company, New Suffolk, Long Island, New York. Submarine running along at periscope depth. Periscope of the submarine. Several times the boat disappears below surface and rises again (porpoising). It makes way on the surface. Civilian testing crewmen in business attire climb out of conning tower and walk on the deck. They start back down into the conning tower. Men on the deck as the submarine runs along the surface. Submarine tied up at the pier, men walking around on deck and using a plank to walk to the pier..

Date: 1904
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027951
Crash of a SB2C airplane on USS Bunker Hill in Pacific Theater during Marianas campaign in World War II

Slow motion footage of SB2C airplane landing on USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during Marianas campaign; Battle of Philippine Sea in World War 2. The carrier's island structure in view. The airplane hits restraint wires and noses over and flips, upside down, landing completely inverted on the deck. Other planes in the background. Men rush towards the crashed plane.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027954