Japanese air attack on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Crewmen throw bombs in ocean from USS Enterprise (CV-6) after it was attacked by a Japanese suicide kamikaze aircraft. Debris on the deck. Ships in the far background and explosions in sky and water are seen in the distance as battle against Japanese aircraft continues.
American warships firing antiaircraft guns at Japanese aircraft attacking the fleet. Black flak bursts seen in air. A Navy aircraft, with wings folded, dangling off flight deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Smoke around fire fighters who have hoses spread on the deck. Flight deck filled with sailors manning hoses. Four sailors carrying injured sailor on stretcher, across the deck. Crews directing water hoses into gaping hole in flight deck where the forward elevator used to be before it was blown out of the ship by the explosion of the Kamikaze's bomb. (Note: As a result of this attack, the USS Enterprise was forced out of service for the remaining 3 months of the war.)
Japanese air attack on U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Men running on the deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6) after it suffered a Japanese air attack on 14th May, 1945. It was hit by a kamikaze Zero, piloted by Lt. J.G. Shunsuke Tomiyasu, destroying her forward elevator, killing 14 and wounding 34. View of damage to number one elevator from the suicide airplane attack Fire fighters try to douse the fire. Burned aircraft on the deck. On hangar deck, fire fighters plays hoses on bulkheads. Ammunition and damaged airplanes are jettisoned over the side. An aircraft on its nose on the deck. Debris strewn all around.
U.S. ships underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A motor launch underway. Men aboard the motor launch.
U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. Japanese civilians who surrendered seated on the side of a hill. Ocean in the background. Civilian prisoners including women and children walk up the side of the hill under the guard of the Marines. A Japanese prisoner comes up the hill. A Marine searches the prisoner. A Japanese prisoner and a Marine walk up the hill towards other marines. A Marine searches the prisoner. A prisoner walks up the hill. Two Marines frisk a Japanese prisoner.
U.S. 4th Marine Division in Tinian, Mariana Islands during World War II. A group of Japanese civilian prisoners walk up the side of a hill towards a cliff. Ocean in the background. The prisoners walk towards a Marine. A group of Japanese civilian prisoners coming up the hill. The prisoners with their hands raised. A Marine searches them. A tank rolls past downhill.
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