A medical aid station of the U.S. Army Japanese-American 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Belmont, France during World War II, during operation to rescue the Lost Battalion in the Vosges Mountains. A soldier with a bandaged head is given blood plasma. Another soldier with bandaged head wound, on a litter, is determined to be dead. Bodies of two fallen soldiers on litters, covered completely in blankets
U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy A4D-2 Skyhawk aircraft parked at the base. A pilot walks towards the aircraft. He climbs up a ladder into the cockpit. He dons his hard hat. The aircraft takes off from a runway.
USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. Flight deck personnel on a catwalk handle levers for arresting gear. United States Navy AD Skyraider aircraft parked in the background. Men on a catwalk tend to arrest cables during the landing of aircraft. Men look across the flight deck at the landing of aircraft. United States Navy A-4D Skyhawk aircraft makes an arrested landing. The aircraft stops. A U.S. Navy F-8U Crusader aircraft makes an arrested landing. The A4D aircraft taxis over the deck after making the arrested landing. The F8U-1 aircraft makes arrested landing. The F8U taxis up the deck.
Oceanographic Prediction Systems in the United States. An interpreter scans aerial photographs. A stereo viewer is used by the photo interpreter to scan two aerial photographs. The photo interpreter marks the two aerial photographs. The stereo viewer in the foreground. The man moves the photographs in line under the viewer. An enlisted man sitting at a console works on small buttons at the base of the console. He jots down information on a small pad.
A convoy to resupply allied troops at Mindoro, Philippines, seen underway, as it comes under attack by Japanese Kamikaze planes, during World War 2. Opening scene shows a burning Japanese warplane trailing smoke as it falls and breaks up before crashing into the sea. Flak clouds seen in the sky from the antiaircraft fire of the U.S. battleship, USS South Dakota (BB-57) seen low on the horizon in the background. Several ships are seen in the convoy. Suddenly a huge explosion occurs as a Japanese kamikaze (unseen) strikes the 14 thousand ton Liberty ship, SS John Burke. She is carrying a cargo of ammunition that explodes, raising a wall of water around the ship and creating a mushroom cloud of smoke that billows high into the sky.
The strafing and bombing of Japanese installations in the Pacific Theater by U.S. aircraft during World War II. Aerial view of the target area. Explosions in a building on the island. Smoke rising up from explosion.
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