United States Aircraft carrier anchored in the Pacific Ocean. Antisubmarine nets are deployed to protect swimmers from sharks. Crew members of the carrier relax. Many sailors swim. some sailors dive from the deck, 70 feet, into the water to swim. Some climb up the anchor chains. Later, aircraft are seen lined up on the flight deck. A destroyer that rescued three downed pilots, pulls alongside and returns the pilots to the Aircraft Carrier, via breeches buoy, while both ships are underway. Rescued pilots pose. The destroyer pulls away.
United States soldiers captured in Germany. The captured U.S. soldiers walk on a hilly terrain. Wounded U.S. soldiers in view. A large number of captured U.S. prisoners sit under a tree. A building in the background. (World War II period).
USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) in Korean War Theater. Aircraft warms up on flight deck of the carrier ship. United States fighter aircraft F4U Corsair on flight deck. F4U Corsair aircraft unfolds wings. Pilots seated in the cockpit. F4U Corsair taking off carrier. AD-1 Skyraider taking off from the flight deck. Signal officer in the foreground.
Church services on a field in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. Line of priests saying mass at makeshift altars rigged on hoods of several jeeps. Large group of people. Men attend mass. Rows of crosses and United States flags. Crosses in a cemetery with U.S. flags flying beside them. Priests kneel in front of makeshift altars. A U.S. marine and a man stand next to jeep at mass. A marine walks by crosses in the cemetery. A priest says mass and gives communion.
Medical aid to wounded natives in Okinawa, Pacific Theater. Natives walk past a hospital truck parked on the road. United States Marines carry wounded on stretchers. The marines put the stretchers into back of the truck. A boy on a stretcher. Tents with open flaps in the background. A woman bandages the hand of a small boy with an amputated arm.
U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King in Washington D.C., United States. Admiral Ernest J. King aboard the flagship. Two officers aboard the flagship greet him. Admiral King leaves the flagship. He gets into a car. Several men stand near him. A car in the background. Several cars move along the road. Naval officers salute aboard the flagship.
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