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Crippled planes attempt landings and crew pay homage to casualties aboard USS Yorktown during the Battle of the Philippines.

U.S. Navy filming aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U.S. aircraft return after an assault on the Imperial Japanese Naval fleet. Damaged and crippled planes make landing attempts on the flight deck. A dive bomber attempts a landing on one wheel, lands and falls over one side of the carrier into the water. Another plane lands and crashes. A U.S. Navy crew member helps the U.S. Navy pilot out of the burning plane. Crew members carry him away on a stretcher. Another crippled plane lands on the flight deck. Sailors put up the scores on a wall of the carrier including Japanese aircraft, ships and cruisers destroyed by the USS Yorktown crew. A pilot puts up his score on his plane, for the number of Japanese aircraft and Imperial Navy carriers hit. The crew collects on the flight deck for burial at sea. The deceased include Lieutenant Commanders and Lieutenants. Sailors give a gun salute and pay last respects to the U.S. Navy sailors killed in action. 'The Fighting Lady' underway, and her carrier planes in flight.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021567
Mission of Joint Assault Signal Companies during amphibious assaults in World War II

Montage of military footage assembled to describe Joint Assault Signal Companies, in World War 2. Some inserts are inconsistent and anachronistic. Scenes of U.S. amphibious assault on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific theater. Camera focuses on small fast-moving assault boat carrying Army and Navy personnel of a Joint Assault Signal Company. A Japanese Aichi B7A Ryusei "Grace" aircraft flying low over the water in background. U.S. troops leaving an LST (Landing Ship Tank) and wading ashore. Some pushing a jeep through the surf. Members of a Joint Assault Signal Company running ashore with a spool of communications cable. Others carrying small arms climb out of an assault boat. Signal company soldiers laying communications cable as they move through jungle. Sailor aboard a U.S. warship ostensibly communicating with the signal company via light blinker. Naval gunfire bombarding enemy positions. Narrator's mention of air support is followed by anachronistic insert of U.S. Army B-10 bombers in formation flight; of bombardier in nose; and views of bombs falling. Next, a formation of B-25 Mitchell bombers is seen in flight and bombs falling. Back in the jungle, signal company men string wire on palm tree. Field artillery firing. Soldiers hunkered down in a shell hole. Signal company soldier using SCR-300-A Radio set.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021727
U.S. soldiers watch a film at a foxhole theater and films made for workers by the Signal Corps during World War II.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Army Pictorial Service films including screen magazines and GI movies are delivered to war fronts in all Theaters during World War 2. An officer arrives in a jeep with the films. Officers and soldiers around tents at the base. Soldiers in camouflage rain coats and hats seated at a foxhole theater. The soldiers watch the latest Joan McCraken Broadway hit Bloomer Girl. Scenes from the film. US: Pictures shown to workers depict the use of products manufactured by them at the war fronts. A poster reads 'B-52 Super Bombers, Bell Aircraft'. Men working inside the Bell Aircraft Corporation plant in NY. Huge machinery, equipment and aircraft parts being manufactured. Workers near stands piled with equipment and parts. A foreign version of the films made for Chinese allies. A U.S. officer talks to soldiers. The film dubbed in Chineese.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021729
Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front during World War II.

Nazi Germany during World War II. Members of the Nazi paramilitary unit Hitler Youth train. An officer blows a whistle and supervizes the exercises. The youth at attention hold flags while they sing an anthem. Hitler Youth march. German troops cycle to the front. Hitler Youth members, old men and women dig trenches on the Russian front. The diggers with tools. An aerial view of the long trench.

Location: Eastern Front European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021773
A German convoy advances as troops capture a burning village on the Eastern Front during World War II.

German SS (Schutzstaffel) troops advance on the Eastern Front during World War II. A map depicts the Eastern Front. A German convoy including trucks, half-tracks, and artillery moves up on the Russian front. Camouflaged trucks, soldiers seated in half-tracks camouflaged with foliage. Panther tanks and infantry of 5.SS Wiking advance as artillery is fired. A German officer gives orders as soldiers load and fire artillery. Russian Prisoners of War (POWs) are marched to the rear. Officers and soldiers strategize using a map. An SS soldier fires an MG42 machine gun that is rested on another's shoulder. Soldiers amidst heavy firing and smoke from explosions. Soldiers in camouflaged helmets. A burning village is captured. Tanks and half-tracks advance into the village. Soldiers with guns cross a field, fire machine guns and artillery. An officer looks through binoculars. Bomb damaged and burning buildings.Soldiers among the ruins and rubble. Soldiers examine burning Russian tanks. Smoking tanks. German troops in discussion, drinking water and resting.

Location: Eastern Front European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021774
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler meet in Germany during World War II.

Room demolished by a bomb. A hole in the roof of the building. Interior completely wrecked. Fuhrer Adolf Hitler awaits arrival of Benito Mussolini at a train station in Germany. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini arrives and is greeted by Hitler and high ranking Nazi officers . The two leaders stroll in the company of Axis officials including Reichsfuhrer SS (Schutzstaffel) Heinrich Himmler, Luftwaffe Commander Hermann Goering, German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Naval Commander Karl Donitz, and Italian General Rudolfo Graziani. Hitler And Goering bid farewell to Mussolini at the station, as he departs. He waves from the window as the train leaves.

Location: Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675021795
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