Roles of U.S. Navy Task Force 58 and British Task Force 57 during the Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. An LCI (Landing Craft-Infantry) passes in front of the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45) as it fires its heavy guns. Explosions on Okinawa. Glimpse of Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in marine camouflage paint. Naval gun barrels firing and shells exploding on Okinawa. The USS LSM(R)-190, a Landing Ship Medium (Rocket) is seen firing barrages of rockets at Okinawa. Closeup of the rocket pods firing. At time 00:18-00:20 the U.S. heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis,CA-36 is seen firing her main battery. Numerous views of shells bursting on the ground. More views of rocket firing landing ships, with more closeups of the rocket pods firing. Change of scene to the south, where the battleship HMS King George V, flagship of Task Force 57, and battleship HMS Howe, are seen bombarding Japanese air installations on Formosa. British Navy Marlett fighter planes (equivalent to U.S. F4Fs) in formation flight. Anti-aircraft gunfire from British aircraft carriers and other warships. Closeup of British multiple Pom Pom gun batteries firing.
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt USS Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea. Two U.S. Navy F8U-1Crusaders fly low over water while dropping flares. The flares burst above the water making a stream behind the aircraft. Small clouds of smoke. U.S. Navy F3H Demon in flight refueling. Four Douglas A-3D Skywarriors in flight making a ripple drop. Splashes in the water due to the drop. Air burst in the clouds. An A-3D aircraft makes a rocket run on a towed sled behind USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). Rockets stream toward the water and create a splash. The aircraft make a low run over the tow target dropping a Napalm bomb. Smoke rising from the water at the stern of USS FDR. Two jets (A4Ds) being refueled from tankers. Four A-3D aircraft flanked by four fighter aircraft on each side in a fly-by.
Different types of military and civil aircraft of the U.S. at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 aircraft taxi. Vehicles cross a runway. U.S. Air Force RF-4C Phantom aircraft taxi. USAF C-130B Hercules taxi. Pan American 707 (cargo version) aircraft parked near C-46 Commandos and Douglas DC-3s. A tug pulls a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. A Douglas C-133 A Cargomaster aircraft parked near C-130 Hercules aircraft in revetments. A C-123K Provider aircraft taxis.
Different types of American and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 aircraft, Air Vietnam DC-6s, DC-3s, and C-46s Commando parked. A U.S. Air Force Martin B-57D Canberra taxis. Two B-57Ds and United States Air Force Douglas F-4C Phantom II wait for takeoff. USAF C-123K Provider and C-130B Hercules taxi past the intersection of a road and a runway. Pan American 707 (cargo version) aircraft taxi and are parked near Cathay Pacific Airways Convair 880 and Air Vietnam DC-6 aircraft. USAF AC-47 Spooky, C-47 Skytain and DC-3 transport aircraft wait for takeoff.
Different types of aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Most ot them are civilian aircraft. An Airlift International Airways Boeing 727 parked and then taxiing. Pan American Boeing 707 (cargo version) aircraft, Numerous Douglas DC-3s and one civilian Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked. A Thai Airways Caravelle jet taxiing. A Douglas DC-6 with "United States of America" painted on its side. A DHC-4 (C-7A) Caribou aircraft crosses the intersection of a road and taxiway. DC-3s and U-1A Otter aircraft taxi past the intersection. Yellow fuel truck and several vehicles holding short, waiting to cross active runway. Vortac transmitter in grass field beside them.
United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Fighter Squadron in France during World War 1. Lt Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a 94th Squadron Nieuport 28c.1fighter #12, as a ground crewman turns a propeller and the engine starts. The squadron's "Hat in Ring" logo is painted on the fuselage. Jump to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of a SPAD S.XIIIc.1 fighter. April 1918: Lieutenant Edwin Green seated in the cockpit of a Nieuport 28c.1 which starts to taxi. Another Nieuport takes off and climbs. Forward to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit turns around and points towards the ground. A mock dogfight between two WW I bi-winged aircraft. American Army aviator Captain Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a USAAS Dayton-Wright DH-4 bomber looks back and waves. Aircraft is in flight. Aerial views of the ground showing a coastline below. The aircraft climbing over the clouds. Captain J.A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of an airborne aircraft. Captain Rickenbacker in his SPAD S.XIII fighter #1 in flight over the clouds. (Note: This is a segment of a longer film described in Eddie Rickenbacker's 1919 book, "Fighting the Flying Circus." It was filmed by Capt.Cooper of the U.S. Army Signal Corps from October 18th - 21st, 1918, and contained reenactments of air combat, some of it with a captured German Hanover C.III observation plane.) (WWI,WW1, World War One, First World War)
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