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U.S. Navy task forces combat Japanese fleet in battle of Coral Sea and Battle of Midway in World War II
Animated map shows Japanese massing for attacks against Australia, Midway Island, and the Aleutians in World War 2. U.S. naval forces prepare for the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. U.S. warships seen underway in the Pacific Ocean. Crewmen on the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-5) push a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft with folded wings. Senior officer on the carrier looking through binoculars. Ship's flight operations personnel are alerted by bugle over intercom to report to their stations. flight deck operational crews assemble on deck. Aviators assemble in ready rooms. They are told a Japanese carrier has been sighted and they are to attack its aircraft. Ready rooms are notified of enemy contact at 125 miles. The pilots scramble up stairs to the flight deck and their airplanes. They climb into cockpits Douglas SBD Dauntless planes, start engines, taxi, and take off one at a time. They form up in flights of 3 aircraft each and fly overhead. View of the Island on the Yorktown, as they wait for aircraft to return. Antiaircraft gunners wait in readiness for possible Japanese attack. A formation of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) aircraft is sighted. They dive at the Yorktown, as her gunners fire away at them. Black flak clouds fill the sky. An explosion as a bomb strikes the Yorktown. She lists and burns and is wracked by another explosion. An SBD dauntless rocks loose near the end of flight deck. USS Yorktown along with other ships in the task force battling Japanese aircraft. A Japanese torpedo plane is downed on the surface of the sea. Flames and smoke at forward port area of Yorktown's flight deck. Gunners hit wings of attacking airplane. Firefighters on Yorktown set up hoses on her deck. More U.S. aircraft airborne to attack Japanese force only 15 miles away. U.S. dive bomber dropping a bomb. An SBD dauntless lands on a carrier deck. Navy aviators pose on deck. Closeup of a Dauntless landing. "Scorecard" compares U.S. and Japanese losses in the two engagements.
United States prisoners of war at medical aid stations in the Philippines during Japanese occupation (WW2)
During occupation of the Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II. Maps of Manila Bay, the Bataan Peninsula, Corregidor and Caballo islands. Mountains in the foreground. A wrecked U.S. ambulance in Corregidor Island. A U.S. medical aid station. Medics treat wounded soldiers inside a tent. U.S. Army prisoners of war in Corregidor take salt tablets and eat at a field kitchen. A prisoner of war sweeps the ground. A wounded Filipino soldier walking with crutches. Prisoners of war are served with plates of rice. A heap of medical supplies. A man reads The Tribune newspaper. Headlines of the newspaper reads: 'Homma is head of Japan forces'. Soldiers seated inside a tent look at a map.
Damage and destruction at Fort Mills and Corregidor following battle between Japanese and U.S. soldiers
The Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippine Islands in World War II. An aerial view of Corregidor island. A map shows places. Rubbled buildings and destroyed trees in the area, including bombed Middle Barracks of Fort Mills. Mountains in the foreground. Japanese Soldiers dumping ammunition in gun pits. A destroyed rail road station and wrecked wagons and rails. Prisoner of war soldiers with some of the Japanese forces. Destroyed houses and buildings.
Wrecked U.S. gun emplacements and rubble on Corregidor after the invasion of the Philippines by Japanese troops.
The invasion of the Philippine Islands by Japanese occupying troops during World War II. A car drives past on a street. Animated map shows places. Wrecked U.S. gun emplacements including Battery Crockett on Corregidor after a battle. Japanese soldiers at a destroyed building. Wrecked U.S. Army guns on the island. Wrecked equipment and rubble amid detroyed buildings in the area.
WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.
Men aboard the ship underway at sea using the semaphore signaling system.
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The ship underway in the Pacific ocean. A map locates Philippine Islands and Leyte. The ship convoy underway. Men standing near the deck gun. The semaphore signaling system is being used. A man wearing earphones standing near the deck gun.
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