U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) aboard Landing Ship Tank in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Sailor paints a pin up girl on the bulkhead. Sign 'Lady Amber' in the background. Sailors examine fixed machine guns aboard a LST (Landing Ship Tank).
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) construct Bailey bridge in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Seabees construct a Bailey bridge. They install metal beams. Seabees lay planking on deck of Bailey bridge. Seabees pull Bailey bridge into position.
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) work on construction in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Seabees construct buildings. They hammer a wooden board. They use hand tool. Seabees carry wounded on a litter. Seabees fill sack with sand. Sandbag in the background. A crew man work at machine. A crew man works with electronic device.
U.S. Navy Seabees (Construction Battalion) aboard LST in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Stern view of LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway in heavy seas. Crewman talks on radio device. Radio operators and gun pointers aboard LST. U.S. flag at mast on the LST. Men on deck of LST play cards and lounge. LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) underway.
USS Franklin (CV-13) arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Ships underway at sea, an American aircraft flies in the foreground. USS Franklin (CV-13), aircraft carrier, arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Men unloading from the carrier.
Slate begins film reading: Sante Fe alongside to take off wounded. (Refers to the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Sante Fe (CL-60) evacuating survivors from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) after it was bombed by Japanese aircraft during World War 2.) View of the Sante Fe starboard of the Franklin. Survivors are watching from the forward section of the Franklin as wounded are transported to from the Franklin to the Sante Fe by bos'n chair and similar means for transporting wounded on cots. Aboard the Franklin, sailors help an ambulatory wounded to a place where medics are giving first aid. They help him to a bed, of sorts that a medic quickly prepares on deck. Sailors passing a wounded to others who prepare him for evacuation. Back on deck, medics are tending to some wounded, bandaging injuries and preparing bed-ridden for evacuation. Intervening slate reads: Most terrific blast of morning.(Note; all explosions are made from ships distant from CV-13. Impossible to shoot film aboard during detonations.) (Indicates that subsequent scenes are filmed from other ships.) Distant views of huge fire ball and dense smoke coming from the USS Franklin. Slate reads: Sante Fe returns. Had been forced by explosions to shear off The Sante Fe seen starboard of the Franklin and closing with her fire hoses directing streams of water on the Franklin. Water running off the Franklin's deck. Small fire seen below decks. The Sante Fe inundating the Franklin with water from her hoses. View of aft deck of Franklin in pieces. Slate intervenes stating: Until dark Father O'Callahan, paying no heed to explosions and his own great peril attends the dying. Glimpse of sailors hauling lines on the Franklin flight deck. Then, Navy Chaplain, Father Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, is seen administering last rites to a dying sailor on the deck.
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