United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Planes on the deck of a carrier and one of them takes off. Japanese planes and installations on ground strafe. A Japanese ship strafes and burns. Plane lands back on the carrier.
Reconnaissance photographs removed from an aircraft on board United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Officers analyze the photographs. Ships in the rough sea as waves crash over the flight deck. Aircrafts take off from carrier in typhoons. Oil refineries bombed in Saigon, Vietnam as smoke rises from them. Japanese warships and ammunition ship burn after blow up. Plane makes a crash landing on board a carrier.
Preparations for Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by United States during World War II. Mechanic works on engines of U.S. Navy pb4y-1 (Navy version of USAAF B-24 Liberator bomber). A man cleans a detached nose gun. Another examines a gun aboard the pb4y-1 aircraft. An officer looks on as mechanics work on a pb4y-1. Officer talks to a mechanic. Men work on propellers of the aircraft as they rotate the propellers.
U.S. Navy PBM Mariner aircraft in flight during World War II. Interiors of airborne PBM Mariner aircraft. Navigator speaks into an interphone to pilot. Pilot speaks into an interphone to navigator. Gunner elevates and turns gun turret. Navigator seated and talks on interphone.
U.S. Navy PBM Mariner aircraft during World War II. Nose of ball turret of PBM. Gunner trains 50 caliber gun. Pilot at controls in the background. ADs work on engine of PBM.
Film taken from the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, CA-35 at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, during resupply operations in World War 2. .Time 04:00 to 00:15 the USS Indianapolis is tied up to the starboard side of a cargo ship which is supplying the battleship USS Pennsylvania, BB-38, on the cargo ship's port side. Time 00:17 to 00:51 shows the crew of the USS Indianapolis having fun near the bow of the ship and making the ship ready for getting underway. A sailor and an officer jokingly pickup another sailor and pretend like they are going to throw him overboard. Time 0052 to 01:01 shows the ships open bridge with officers at their duties. Time 01:02 to 01:07 shows an anchor detail raising the ships anchor. Time 01:08 to 01:19 shows the ships bridge and signal flags being lowered. Time 01:20 to 01:35 shows the port side of the heavy cruiser USS Louisville, CA-28, in measure 32/6d camouflage and a Fletcher class destroyer, in measure 21 all blue camouflage, moving between the view. Time 01:36 shows a crew member taking depth soundings with a line and plummet. The rest of the film shows the shore of a small island. APs (transports), AKs (cargo ships), DEs (Destroyer Escorts), and LCs (Landing Craft) offshore. An LCT (Landing Craft Tank) underway.
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