Artistic rendition: Diagram shows United States Destroyer Division 46 firing torpedoes at the Japanese enemy ships. Explosions as the enemy positions are hit. Task Force Division 46 and Division 45 ships advance towards the enemy target. The radar show friendly planes in range. Note shows results of the battle. (World War II period).
Bombing of Rekata bay (near Munda and Guadalcanal in the South Pacific) during August 24th 1943. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers of the 13th Army Air Forces in flight at a high altitude over the bay. Bombers drop bombs on Japanese targets at Rekata bay. (World War II period).
Helicopter lands on ground at Quonset Point in United States. President Eisenhower and his wife disembark the helicopter along with naval aide and other officers. Eisenhower removes his hat and is greeted by a naval officer. Eisenhower and party walk towards the Presidential plane Columbine. They walk up the ramp of the plane. The doorway is closed and the ramp is pushed away. Columbine in the parking area prepares for the take off. Crew pulls cable from the aircraft. Three naval Officers stand by. Navy plane director guides the plane. Columbine taxies for take off.
Napalm bombs, improvised from wing fuel tanks, installed under wing of a P-47 from U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) 318th Fighter Group, on Aslito airfield (Isley field) during the Tinian campaign of World War II in the Pacific. Airman fastening improvised napalm bomb under wing of the P-47 aircraft. Ground crews drop off 55gallon drums of fuel beside a P-47 and fasten a fueling hose to them. They pump napalm and gasoline, into the 165gallon suspended wing tanks (bombs) creating, gel gas,. Ground crewman shows a sample of the rubbery gel gas. After fueling them, the crewmen fasten detonators into the napalm bombs.
United States conducts nuclear test shot "Zuni" as part of Operation Redwing nuclear tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds. Bright flash appears due to the Zuni shot bomb blast, the first ever of a three-stage thermonuclear design. Huge fireball boils upward into the sky. Spots of fire in sky as darkness spreads. Zuni was a 3.5 Megaton Hydrogen bomb with 85% of its yield from fusion. This was a companion test to the "dirty" (87% fission) Tewa shot using the same bomb design.
Military policeman standing guard in front of a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-40 aircraft, on the Torokina Air Strip, at Bougainville, in World War 2. A convoy of fuel trucks driving along edge of the airfield. A caterpillar tractor towing a large fuel tanker trailer. A fuel truck stops in front of a P-39 Airacobra and airmen begin to refuel its drop tank. Seabees unpack sections of pierced steel plank (Marsden Matting) and lay it down on the airstrip.
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