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Atlantic Coast Director, W W Schwenk in a meeting with other officials in War Shipping Administration Division headquarters (WW2)

View at War Shipping Administration Division headquarters in New York City. Atlantic Coast Director W.W.Schwenk discussing with other officials in a meeting. Schewenk discussing and looking into Secret War Administration Data Book. Door sign of 'OFFICE OF ATLANTIC COAST DIRECTOR - WAR SHIPPING ADMN ENTRANCE' can be seen. (World War II period)

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039403
American Board of Shipping President Lewis L. Luckenbach speaking before Board.

Shows entrance of American Bureau of Shipping building. Mr. Lewis L. Luckenbach (President of Board) speaking before American Board of Shipping. Various views of men listening and President speaking.

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039404
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) underway in the Pacific

Aerial views of the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) underway in the Pacific with numerous aircraft parked on her flight deck with wings folded. Several SB2C helldiver aircraft are lined up for takeoff. Views of two of the aircraft taking off.

Date: 1944
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039522
Japanese A6M Zero fighter aircraft strafes USS Sangamon.

Japanese Zeke fighter aircraft (Misubishi A6M Zero) strafes USS Sangamon (CVE-26) and bullets splash in water. Destroyer underway and flak bursts in air. USS Sangamon underway and Japanese plane burns in waters of the Leyte Gulf in background. Other vessels in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") seen in the footage. Shortly before the Battle of Leyte Gulf. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, October 13
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039536
USS Trathen (DD-530) approaches and transfers captured Japanese pilot to USS Sangamon (CVE-26).

Plane handlers lounge on flight deck of USS Sangamon (CVE-26) and eat ice cream. U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Trathen (DD-530) approaches and transfers wounded Japanese fighter pilot to USS Sangamon (CVE-26) via breeches buoy. (The guns of the USS Trathen had shot his plane down). Japanese pilot received on USS Sangamon and transferred to stretcher.

Date: 1944, October 17
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039537
Japanese zero makes kamikaze dive on USS Suwanee (CVE-27), and impacts deck, as seen from USS Sangamon.

During the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, a Japanese A6M5 Zero aircraft carries out one of the first kamikaze attacks of World War II, diving and attacking the U.S. Navy Escort Carrier USS Suwanee (CVE-27) in the Leyte Gulf of the Philippines. Clouds of black smoke billow from the hit carrier. Some Navy sailors from the hit USS Suwanee in the water, blown overboard by the explosion, approaching USS Sangamon (CVE-26), also in Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") for assistance. USS Sangamon underway.

Date: 1944, October 25
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039538