Views of the rocky barren terrain of Iwo Jima, in final phases of battle by U.S. 4th Division marines against Japanese defenders, during World War 2. Mount Suribachi in the background. A U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat airplane flies overhead. Closeup glimpse of a marine eating. A marine Sherman tank moving along a path through the rocks. A tank parked near marines preparing defensive positions in a valley. Two U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldivers attack Japanese positions in successive passes. Huge clouds of smoke arise from each bombing pass.
U.S. Air Force Firefighters spray foam on burning McDonnell-Douglas RF-4C-30-MC Phantom Reconnaissance jet aircraft, serial number 66-0411, that crashed during attempted landing at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin Texas. The aircraft on a routine night mission hit a power line and crashed into a house during its landing approach. The house can be seen in background behind the flaming wreckage of the RF-4C. Although the two aircrew were killed, the narrator states the eight residents of the house were miraculously unhurt.
4-H club members return to United States from Europe, arriving in New York aboard an ocean liner. American farm which is being visited by an English girl Alison Reeve. Girl shown printed information pamphlet by a county extension agent, beside his parked car by the house. Man outside a farm building tells young boys and the girl about a bull. Young farmers learn modern agricultural techniques at the 4-H club camp. They drive tractors on the farm. The girl watches them. Farmers eating food at a large outdoor table picnic. Exterior view of a rural church. Farmers sitting in a church during a church service. Farming community sings and dances a square dance as a band plays and a man calls the dance steps. Farmers stand in the farm and look at the machines.
USS Wasp (CV-7) flight operations during World War 2. Slow motion footage shows Grumman F4F-3 (BuNo 1066) of Navy Squadron VF-72, "Blue Wasps," rounding out high during landing. It catches an arresting cable, but the cable snaps and the F4F rolls into the barrier and noses over, remaining in a tail high position. Superstructure in the background. Deck crewmen run towards the crashed plane.
USS Wasp flight operations. F4F's and SB2U's aircrafts landing on the flight deck. Aircraft flying over the sea and landing on the flight deck. F4F landing aboard ship. Men standing on the flight deck. Other men standing with artillery on the flight deck and waving signal boards towards the planes. Aircraft lands. Superstructure in the background.
Slow motion footage of an F4U Corsair airplane rounding out too high as it lands on the USS Bunker Hill during World War 2 Battle of Philippine Sea and Marianas Campaign. The F4U bounces over all visible restraining cables and continues to crash further along the flight deck. Final impact is obscured from view by deck crew personnel who step onto deck to respond to the crash.
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