USS Chowanoc (ATF-100) at Point Loma in San Diego, California. USS Chowanoc tows USS Philippine Sea (CVS-11). Three Large Harbor Tugs in view. USS Midway in the far background. Bow of the USS Philippine Sea. Tow cable lead to the bow chock. Four Large Harbor Tugs follow behind the USS Philippine Sea. Channel of San Diego in the background. Large Harbor Tugs at port side of the USS Philippine Sea. USS Chowanoc in the background. North Island in the background. Automobiles at the port.
Setting: North Field, Tinian Island in Mariana Islands, South Pacific, almost a week after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan, August 8, 1945, during World War II. Public Relations Officer, Major John F. Moynahan (not seen) is interviewing members of the Crew of the B-29, Enola Gay, from which the bomb was dropped. Here he interviews Captain William Sterling "Deke" Parsons of the U.S. Navy who was weaponeer aboard the Enola Gay, during the mission. and who now serves as Scientific Head of the Atomic Bomb Project in the Pacific Theater. Captain Parsons describes the events of the mission from their early morning departure through the actual bombing. He notes that the actual bombing went smoother than earlier practice missions.
U.S. Navy vessels in the Philippines. American float plane OS2U lands in slick. Destroyer underway at sea. Many antiaircraft bursts in air in the background. Battleship fires 14 inch guns at Japanese enemy targets. Many auxiliary ships and Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) in Lingayen Gulf on "S" Day. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) and many other landing crafts underway. Destroyer bombards beach, LCIs in background. LCIs near beach fire. An island in the background. (World War II period).
The sea voyage of the victory ship Hannibal Victory from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands during World War II. The locomotive on a railroad station. Men seated in the engine of the locomotive. A man standing near the locomotive and talking to them. The engine moves on the railroad station. A ship underway at sea.
Japanese installations in the Philippines during World War II. Corregidor island in the background. The coastline of Bataan and mountains in the background. Generals walk on a dock. Two Generals look over harbor and skyward while walking. Wrecked Japanese installations. A fortress on a hill in the background. Wrecked Japanese equipment on the dock.
The invasion of Mindanao in the Philippines by United States soldiers during World War II. Soldiers of the 31st Division on the deck of a Landing Ship Tank (LST) off the coast of the islands. They rest, read, and talk on the deck, under tents and tarps erected for protection from the sun. One soldier holds a carved wooden artifact that the soldiers examine.
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