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Task Force 16 with Doolittle raiders underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II
U.S. ships of Task Force 16 underway in the Pacific Ocean carrying the Doolittle Raid crews of World War 2. The bow of the USS Salt Lake City, CA-25, as it goes through heavy seas. Water breaking over the bow. Various ships of a task force on the horizon. The bow of the same cruiser receives another breaker. The camouflaged Gleaves-class destroyer USS Meredith (DD-434) seen off the starboard of CA-25. A signalman raises flags. He sends blinker signals to carriers. A single stack destroyer of the Benham Class comes up alongside the cruiser. The task Force including USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, destroyers and two tankers underway. Aviation detail on the well-deck preparing to catapult a U.S. Navy SOC Seagull aircraft. The SOC aircraft is catapulted. A signalman sends a semaphore message. Signal flags on the ship. Several SOC scout planes are launched.
Omaha Beach, after the Allies secured the beachhead, during the invasion of Normandy, France, in World War Ii
Scenes on and around Omaha Beach after it had been secured, following the Allied D-Day amphibious invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers move along the beach in a DUKW amphibious vehicle. A bulldozer seen in the background. About 25 German prisoners of war are seen awaiting evacuation, behind barbed wire on the beach,guarded by a U.S.military policeman. As a shell whines overhead they all instinctively drop to the ground and the shell explodes somewhere out of sight. An 83 ft. U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter looks for Allied survivors in the water. The British Hospital ship "Prague" and others are seen at anchor, ready to receive patients. Wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers to a landing craft on the beach. A wounded man being transferred from a damaged LCI to another one. Wounded being hoisted in groups of 4 each, from the crippled and sinking LCI(L)85. The are lowered to deck of the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Navy Rear Admiral, John L. Hall, Jr., observing the transfer of wounded. Sweeping views of Omaha Beach after the beachhead was secured. Numerous support vessels are seen close offshore. Trucks move along roads; war materiel is stockpiled in open areas; barrage balloons fly aloft; and soldiers move everywhere. Closeup of the LCI(L) 92 ,on the beach,showing the holes blown in her. The LCI(L)553, beached sideways in the sand. Seen beached and damaged, is LCI(L)87, flagship of Coast Guard Captain Miles E. Imlay, deputy commander of the Coast Guard's Omaha Assault Group O-1. Mechanics working to repair the screw from a boat.
Officers inspect a blue jacket platoon and order it to perform drills in the United States.
A film titled 'Personnel Inspection of Field Photographic Branch' on inspection of a platoon in the United States. U.S. soldiers stand at attention in a building. Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Jack Pennick, personnel officer, lines up a blue jacket platoon for an inspection. The officer inspects the platoon. Lieutenant E.R. Kellogg takes the salute of Lt. John English, division officer, and the inspection party forms. After the officers have been inspected, Lt. Kellogg and his party turn to Chief Petty Officer Ralph Densmore, skipper for his squad of chiefs. The officers inspect men standing at attention. Men take off their hats for haircut inspection and replace them when ordered. The chiefs are dismissed and CWO Pennick puts the men through some drills. The Army and Marine Corps soldiers fall out and the U.S. Navy sailors give a demonstration of close order drill. (World War II period).
Atrocity victims and war crimes in the European Theater in World War II.
A film titled 'That Justice Be Done' on preparations that are made for prosecution of war criminals shortly after the end of World War 2 in Europe. The statue of the third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, United States. Flashback of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people at a Nazi Nuremberg Rally. Many German officers and soldiers seated in a hall and cheering with Nazi salutes. Views of civilian atrocity victims, killed by Nazi German soldiers during the war. Corpses of men, women, and children victims of mass shootings and killings. Mutilated bodies of several people on a field. Women crying. Bodies of U.S. soldiers in uniform shot in the back, in violation of established rules of warfare. Victims of Nazi prosecution. Dead bodies of emaciated concentration camp victims piled up on carts drawn by mules for burial, led by a man wearing a gas mask. View of a Nazi night rally with soldiers carrying torches. A Nazi book burning event, with brownshirt SA Nazi soldiers and civilians throwing books into a burning outdoor fire at Bebelplatz in Berlin in 1933.
Crewmen help in the transfer of cargo from a boat to a ship at Sao Miguel Island in the Azores Islands.
U.S. ships at Sao Miguel Island in the Azores Islands. Crewmen in a boat underway. A crewman holds a walkie-talkie in hand. Two men in the background. The crewmen are wearing life-jackets and hard hats. USS Compass Island underway at sea in the background. USNS Mizar underway. A boat crew in a whale boat underway. USS Compass Island in the background. A small boat along the beam of USNS Mizar on the starboard side. A utility boat alongside the starboard side of USNS Mizar. A cargo net loaded with cargo is hoisted from the boat. Crewmen and a civilian using a dolly move equipment on the deck. An ocean bottom scanning sonar is situated on the deck of the ship.
Guns fired from USS Essex underway in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Navy carrier operations in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Men firing guns from the aircraft carrier. Smoke due to the firing. USS Essex underway. Aircraft parked on the deck of the ship. Guns fired along the port catwalk. The tracers head skyward. The flight deck personnel move a U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat, with wings folded, across the deck.
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