U.S. Navy hospital ship USS Tranquility carries USS Indianapolis survivors at sea, following the Indianapolis' sinking by Japanese torpedo attack. The ship moored alongside dock. The ship enters Apra Harbor at Guam. Long line of ambulances waits on the dock. Fantail and midships of tranquility alongside dock. Ambulatory causalities from USS Indianapolis line rails. Ramp runs from gangway to platform on dock foe discharge of causalities from ship. Ambulatory causalities file down gangway ladder to ambulances on dock. Stern of the Tranquility with its name written on it. United States flag flying from staff. General activities on dock as men take the survivors on stretchers to ambulances. Gangway ladder as ambulatory causalities descend to dock.
Korean War footage: Aircraft lands on the flight deck of USS Essex in the Japanese sea, Korea. U.S. Navy F2H aircraft lands on the flight deck first. TBM aircraft lands next. AD lands on the flight deck. F9F lands the last. Men watch the planes.
F2H aircraft crashes while landing on the flight deck of U.S. Navy ship USS Essex (CV-9) in the Japanese sea, during the Korean War. It hits the barrier, crashes and burns. Heavy columns of smoke arise from burning. Fire fighters with fire hoses and foamite. Other airplanes in the background.
United States officers arrive at the flight deck of US Navy ship USS Essex (CV-9) in the Japanese sea off Korea. Helicopter in flight. Officers come out of the helicopter. They discuss amongst themselves. An officer wears a uniform. They walk on the flight deck and enter the superstructure. United States flag over the superstructure. Officers talk to sailors. They board helicopter and the helicopter takes off. (Korean War period.)
Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.
Animated map depicts principal positions of British and French forces on the French-Belgian border in September, 1939 at the start of World War 2, It shows assembly and movement of some forces in Belgium and Holland. Adolf Hitler looks over a planning map with Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and other officers. Animated map illustrates the disposition of German forces under Generals Bock and Von Rundstedt, and their plan of attack across the Rhine River into Belgium. At German headquarters communications center switchboard operators connect military units to send orders. German soldiers and equipment starts moving with motorcycles, trucks, halftracks and other vehicles. General Franz Halder, Commmander-in-Chief of all German forces, climbs into an open army utility vehicle, after arriving by plane at an airport. An aircraft engine being started. Marshal Hermann Goering, Chief of the airforce (Luftwaffe) converses with an officer at an airport. Junkers Ju 88 bombers taking off and flying in loose formation high overhead. Views from inside one of the aircraft. Closeup of a Heinkel He 111 bomber in flight. View from greenhouse of the aircraft. German paratroopers in the cabin of a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane. Two Ju 52s flying overhead. View from inside a Ju 52 of Belgium and Holland waterways below. Pilot informs the troopers who stand and begin the parachute from the plane into Rotterdam. Closeup of the troopers exiting with chutes starting to open. Three Ju 52s dropping paratroops. Shots of troopers descending under fully open chutes. Aerial view of Rotterdam. German troops running along street and discarding border obstacles with sledge hammers.Military vehicles crossing the border. Tanks used to destroy obstacles. A Stug III crossing the border. German infantry moving cautiously through wooded area. A group drops down to the ground as a shot is heard to ricochet past them. German soldiers firing machine gun. Infantry under fire moving across fields flanking a village. German soldiers under small arms fire, scurry along a deserted steet in a town and seek shelter in doorways. Two carry a wounded comrade. A soldier fires an MG 42 machine gun resting on the shoulder of another soldier. German soldiers stand over two wounded. More German troops running close to buildings for cover.
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