Film opens showing sky full of black clouds from bursting flak as a Japanese Kamikaze plane dives down through clouds, in World War 2. It strikes an American Essex class aircraft carrier amidships and explodes in flames and smoke.
Historic scenes of early aircraft carrier development. Biplanes taking off and landing on the USS langley (CV-1). The launching of the USS Lexington (CV-2). View on flight deck of the Lexington. The carrier underway. Antiaircraft guns on the ship. View, from a ship, of the USS Lexington and a battleship in the distance. Closeup of the USS Langley (CV-1). Crew boarding the USS Hornet prior to her commissioning just before World War 2. View from Hornet's forward elevator as it rises from hangar deck up to flight deck. Entire ship's company, officers, sailors, and marine detachment, on deck in dress uniforms on flight deck during Hornet's commissioning ceremony in October, 1941. Sailors on shore wave as the USS Hornet leaves the harbor. Brief view of American carriers Lexington, Ranger, Yorktown, and Enterprise in line ahead in 1940, followed by view of Lexington.
Views in semi-darkness of U.S. Navy sailor survivors in life boats, from the USS Wasp (CV-7), approaching the Cruiser, USS Helena (CL-50) during World War 2. Smoke rising from the USS Wasp (CV-7) as viewed from the Helena. As night falls, the fires aboard the USS Wasp are all that is visible.
Life of U.S. soldiers under very difficult conditions during World War II. U.S. soldiers labor hard to deliver military supplies during the war. Troops rolling a log up a muddy hillside. Army soldiers unload and load boxes, equipment, and ammunition boxed in mountainous terrains, on beaches, and other places. Soldiers push heavy artillery guns. They carry ammunition boxes from an LCV (Landing Craft Vehicle) to a beach. Soldiers lash ammunition boxes onto backpack frames, hoist the boxes on their backs and scale elevated muddy paths.
From "He Has Seen War", shows U.S. Army soldiers and Marines carrying�wounded for medical treatment. Wounded assisted to walk and others carried on stretchers. African American soldiers carry a wounded and bandaged African American soldier on a stretcher. Bandages and IV intravenous drugs administered to wounded by medical personnel. Wounded straggling into camps being carried by fellow soldiers. Wounded carried atop jeeps. Wounded flyer assisted in exiting aircraft and carried away on stretcher. Navy fighter plane missing its tail, lands on aircraft carrier and swerves over the side. Sailors rush to rescue injured pilot. Injured U.S. Army soldiers receive medical treatment and surgery in the field. Medic sews wound on a soldier's face. Blinded soldier with bandage over eyes is guided in to a camp by fellow soldiers. Wounded and dead being hoisted aboard landing crafts and then aboard larger ship.
Japanese dramatized film depicting scenes inside a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine as it advances to attack Pearl Harbor in World War 2. Interior of the Japanese two-man midget submarine. Japanese navy officer looks into the periscope of submarine. Crew operates the control wheel while the commanding officer stands behind him. Scene shifts to Japanese Imperial Navy staff in radio room of the submarine's mother ship as they communicate positioning. Staff receive a message and hand it over to the Officer in the radio room. The message reads (translated) that they willl attack at dawn.
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