Flight deck officers giving launch signals. Launch of aircraft on deck of carrier ship. Ship Borne Dive-bombers (SBD) formation in view. Torpedo bombers TBM Avenger makes a deck launch. Curtiss SB2C Helldiver in a diving run. SBDs in formation. Enemy buildings and dock area being strafed. Coastal area of island seen. Wooden area being strafed. Blasted hangars on enemy held island. (World War II period).
Local Pacific Islanders are seen in wooden dugout boats in the vicinity of U.S. Navy warships, in a bay during World War 2. Closeup of a man in one canoe with an outrigger. A boy sitting in one carrying a box of fruit. U.S. military engineers aboard a ship, look at shore with binoculars. Sailors in stern of a boat flying Naval ensign. Sailors on a barge, transport the fuselage and float of a OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane to an island, where they bring it ashore amidst grove of palm trees. Sailors roll 55gallon drums of fuel shore from a barge. A jeep is lowered over the side of a ship and driven ashore. Supplies, including foodstuffs, are brought ashore. Cartons containing canned corned beef; canned cherries, and many other foods, are stacked up in a warehouse. Engineers chart water depth in a bay as they mark boundaries for construction of a seaplane base. Caterpillar tractors level trees and clear land for the base. Soldiers install a 155mm long tom gun in position for coastal defense. Marines prepare temporary shelters of palm fronds. A U.S. Navy PBY Catalina seaplane flies overhead.
Scenes filmed from attacking Japanese aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. View from Japanese aircraft strafing and bombing U.S. aircraft and hangars on the ground at Ford Island. Japanese Nakajima B5N (Kate) tail number 229, seen flying past the camera plane. Smoke rising from the ground below. White plumes erupt from torpedoes striking U.S. ships on opposite side of Ford Island. Japanese-captioned still photographs: Of heavy black smoke rising from bombed fuel tanks; Of a torpedo hitting the USS West Virginia; of other ships on battleship row, including the USS Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maryland, and California. (World War II period).
Operations aboard U.S. Navy's USS Constellation (CVA-64) at Yankee Station, Vietnam. A-4C aircraft moves onto catapult. Men on deck. Plane ready for launch. Aircraft in flight. A-4C aircraft launched from Number two catapult. Island in the far background. F-4B aircraft launched from angled deck. Catapult console operator with raised hands. He lowers his hands and presses a button. A-4C launched. RA-5C aircraft moves on catapult. Catapult crew under aircraft. Men hook up and check bridle. Men leave the area. RA-5C aircraft being launched from number one catapult. Catapult console operator on deck. F-4B aircraft ready for launch. C-2A aircraft comes in for recovery. Men wearing yellow shirt in the foreground. Plane rolls out with area. C-2A taxis toward in front of island. A-6A aircraft towed over deck by tractor. F-4B parked at deck edge between two other F-4B aircraft.
Physical damage caused due to atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan. Seven months after the blast, camera surveys area covered with rubble. Island between the Motoyasu and Kyobashi rivers with gas plant. Charred and flattened remains of buildings. Some buildings still standing but gutted. Various other buildings on the island. A crumpled steel frame building in the foreground. Various buildings affected by the atom bomb explosion.
Various landmarks in Hood Canal region in Washington, United States. Women on deck of the trim steamer ship S.S. Potlatch (active 1912-1917; scrapped 1937). View from ship of wooded shoreline areas in Hood Canal. Men and women aboard the ferry ship. Homes, dock areas are seen. Wooded shoreline in the background. Snow covered mountains of the Olympic Peninsula in the background, including Mount Olympus. A row boat approaches the ship. Views from ship as it heads northward through the Puget Sound to the San Juan Islands. Close views of the San Juan Islands shorelines seen from the moving S.S. Potlatch.
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