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USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) refueling USS Bullard (DD-660) while underway at sea during World War II

USS Bullard (DD-660) destroyer approaching the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) aircraft carrier. Most of the destroyer's crew are on deck. Superstructure of carrier seen. Sailors on the Bullard haul on support lines attached to fuel lines. Two fuel lines rigged. After refueling, view of the forward fuel line being released from the and hauled aboard the carrier. The USS Bullard (DD-660) pulls away.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040832
Slow motion views of F4U Corsair mishap during landing on flight deck of USS Bunker Hill during World War II

Views from low on flight deck as a United States F4U Corsair of VF-17, comes in for a landing on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during shakedown cruise. It engages several restraining cables, and noses over. The plane rights itself and is pulled back by the cables. Smoke seen coming from engine cowling. Sailors including firefighters in protective gear, rush toward the aircraft. Sailor sprays extinguisher into cowling area of the Corsair's engine. The pilot is seen apparently unhurt, in the open cockpit.

Date: 1943, July
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040833
F4U Corsair landing mishap on USS Bunker Hill during World War II

F4U Corsair landing mishap during shakedown cruise of Navy Fighter Squadron VF-17, aboard the carrier, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during World War 2. The event is shown in seen in slow motion. A Douglas SBD Dauntless makes a normal landing. Next, a Corsair, marked 17-F-10, engages a restraining cable but noses over to completely vertical position, and then falls off toward left wing, before settling back. Smoke engulfs the airplane, but quickly clears. Sailors quickly respond, surrounding the aircraft.

Date: 1943, July
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040834
USS Bunker Hill shakedown cruise in World War II. F4U noses over while landing. SB2C Helldiver ditched next to the carrier

Mishaps during the shakedown cruise of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in World War 2. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair of VF-17, noses over but settles upright, while landing on the carrier. View from port stern of the Bunker Hill as she passes an SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from VB-17, in the water. The pilot and gunner climb over the sinking airplane to board their emergency life raft, already inflated next to the airplane. As the crew of the Bunker Hill watches, the air crewmen board their life raft, as the dive bomber sinks.

Date: 1943, July
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040835
A Chance Vought F4U Corsair of Navy Squadron VF-17 noses over during landing on USS Bunker Hill during World War II

An F4U Corsair airplane of U.S. Navy Squadron VF-17 is seen in slow motion as it attempts to land on the flight deck of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) during its shakedown cruise in 1943. The aircraft displays 17-F-28, on its fuselage. The pilot rounds out high, bounces, apparently missing restraining cables, and ends up nosing over into tail-high vertical position, falling slightly toward its right wing. It settles in about a 70 degree tail high position, as sailors run toward the aircraft as they respond to the emergency.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040837
Scenes from Battle of Midway during World War II. U.S. Naval Academy cadets graduating June 19, 1942.

Scenes from the Naval Battle of Midway, in World War 2. A helmeted sailor, on deck of a U.S warship, silhouetted next to a propeller blade. A Fletcher-class U.S. Navy destroyer in background. View from near top of a Curtiss SOC Seagull airplane on the USS Portland (CA-33),as she fires two of her 5 inch antiaircraft guns, amidship,during the battle of Midway. Air is filled with low-altitude black flak smoke. A Japanese G4M1 model 11 ("Betty") bomber flies close by at low altitude across the line of sight. Smoke rises from the Portland's gunfire. Another Betty bomber low over the water in far background. Aerial view of a burning Japanese cruiser, far below, maneuvering to evade American attacks. View from U.S. airplane circling closer to the smoking Japanese cruiser. Closeups of panned stills showing severely damaged Japanese warships. Scene shifts to a large formation of Navy personnel in dress whites, where U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz is decorating navy personnel who distinguished themselves in the battle. Nimitz sits, visiting a wounded sailor, at a hospital. U.S.Army Air Forces B-17 Crews, who bombed Japanese ships, are seen being interviewed on Midway Island. Scene shifts to war production workers assembling aircraft in factories in the United States. U.S. warplanes being manufactured. B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft being rolled out of a plant. Graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval academy, in Annapolis, Maryland. Spectators watch as the cadet corps parades. View inside the historic hall of the old academy filled with spectators, cadets graduate a year early due to the war. Graduating cadets shaking hands with Academy administrators. Cadets of the class of 1943 cheer and throw their hats in the air at end of commencement ceremonies on June 19, 1942.

Date: 1942, June 19
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040843