As film begins, a Yellow shirt aboard the Aircraft Carrier, USS Coral Sea (CVA -43) clears a U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom fighter aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 15 for takeoff. Steam from the carrier's catapult is seen initially but dissipates as the jet takes off. Several more F-4s are launched and seen from different angles. Closeup of canopy closing as pilot LT. J.G. D.H. Rogers dons his oxygen mask prior to takeoff. An F-4 buzzes past as Rogers' aircraft sits on the port catapult. His aircraft joins up with two others and they fly in a formation toward a shore. Several views of the flight of three in different formations. They peel off and dive in sequence. View of one from behind and underneath showing collection of ordnance under its wings. The F-4s drop clusters of bombs that are seen exploding on the ground. Glimpse of Lt. J.G. Rogers in his cockpit. Aerial view of landing craft speeding though water below. Warships in an invasion fleet seen on the water. Glimpse of troops descending net from a transport ship and boarding a landing craft (Higgins Boat). Back on the Coral Sea, U.S. Marines are seen boarding UH-34D helicopters. Glimpse of landing craft heading toward shore in formation. An F-4 firing rockets. Explosion as rocket strikes a hut on sandy shore. More views of landing craft underway, and an F-4 firing rockets that explode in water along a shore. More Marines leaving the Coral Sea flight deck aboard UH-34D helicopters. More views of landing craft underway. An F-4 dropping bombs that explode on a shore. Marines rushing out of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTP-5s). Explosions on sand. View from inside LVTP-5 as Marines leave it for the beach. More explosions on sand. Views of LVTPs heading toward shore. Formations of Marine UH-34D helicopters landing and Marines starting to leave them. Aerial view of LVTPs reaching shore and Marines leaving them and assembling on shore. Flight of three F-4s in formation over the USS Coral Sea and then landing on her flight deck. (Note: Although scenes of bombing and amphibious assaults are shown, there is no evidence of enemy actions anywhere in this film, so such scenes likely involve training exercises or some other non-combat activities.)
Large U.S. navy convoy with Battleships at sea, Amphibious DUKWs leave LSM Landing ship in deep water and motor to shore. Some are loaded with 105mm howitzers. Other LSM (Landing Ship Medium) maneuvers to beach and DUKWs exit through the surf to drive away on hard ground..
U.S.Marine artillery units leave beach in DUKWs and proceed to prearranged positions on land. They unload 155mm howitzers using an A frame on one of the DUKWs. Marines unload all the howitzers in the battery and set up communications and instruments.
View of large buildings in Detroit, Michigan. Cars parked around a public park. Pedestrian traffic on the streets. Several buildings along a river beach. View of residential area and houses. Children on the steps of a large building. Boys play baseball. Exterior view of Detroit Public Library. Double Decker bus and automobile traffic on the street. Water truck washes street. Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant workers in plant yard. Truck and streetcar traffic-workers. People in Eastern Market. Boy buying chickens from a open air market stall. Men, some women, and some children approaching the ticket sales booths of Navin Field (home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and later renamed Briggs Stadium, and subsequently Tiger Stadium). Close up view of men at ticket booths buying tickets to game.
Celebration of Easter in different parts of the world. Christians during a Sunrise Service in the Cathedral-like majesty of Yosemite Park. A huge gathering in Hollywood Bowl for the Sunrise Service. President John F Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy and their two children attend a private service at Palm Beach. Pope John XXIII extends his blessings "To the City and to the World". Before that, around 500,000 devotees attended the Mass in St. Peter's Square. Easter Parade in Fifth Avenue of New York City. The street is jammed by a huge crowd of spectators.
African American man fishing in a small pond from a simple wooden dug out canoe. A boy on shore of a large lake as three women pass by on water skis pulled by a high speed motor boat. Group of young men surfing along a beach. A family in a wooden motor boat enjoying a ride and a person parasailing. Divers diving from diving boards at a swimming pool.
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