U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.
A U.S. Navy training film regarding destroyer rescue of a downed pilot. An aircraft carrier in the sea. A helicopter hovers over the aircraft carrier. A destroyer amidst the sea. Crew members and rescue equipment on the ship. including scuba divers. Small boats lowered in the sea. An officer watches through the binoculars. Another sailor talks on the radio. Various airplanes take off from the flight deck. Various landings on the flight deck. Actual footage of a U.S. Navy jet with number 5357 landing on flight deck and a fire burning beneath it. The plane continues past barriers, off the port deck, pilot ejects, and plane plunges into the sea. Pilot in the sea. The rescue ship comes nearby the pilot. It rescues the pilot with the help of a rescue sling.
From a U.S. Navy training film. Rescue operations of a destroyer in United States. A destroyer in the sea. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. A sailor talks on a phone. Sailors take out rescue equipment from a rescue locker. Rescue swimmers wear their dresses for the rescue operation. Small boat lowered in the sea. Sailors in the boat. A sailor talks on the radio. Rescue gear, rescue sling and other rescue equipment on the ship. Sailors check the equipment.
From a U.S. Navy training film. Rescue operations by a destroyer in rescuing downed a pilot in United States. Sailors stand on the deck. A sailor watches through the binoculars. The other sailor talks on a phone. Pilot in the sea. He sprays red and green flare in the water. For the rescue at night, the pilot can be noticed through the light on his helmet. A sailor watches through the binoculars. The pilot switches on the night flare. The pilot also uses the emergency whistle.
Rescue operations by a destroyer in rescuing downed a pilot in United States. An officer watches through the binoculars. Destroyer at the sea. Sailor points at the pilot in the sea. The commanding officer orders the swimmer to get into the water to rescue the pilot. A rescue sling tied along the swimmer's waist and he lowers in the water. Other swimmer ready for the help.
Rescue operations by a destroyer in rescuing downed a pilot in United States. Pilot in the sea. Swimmer arrives nearby the pilot. Parachute of the pilot in the sea. The swimmer attaches the rescue rope with the pilot and carries him. The sailors pull the rope. The pilot safely boards on to the ship. The rope again lowered and the swimmer boards the ship.
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