USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) units at Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. A USAF bomber in flight. A sign board reads 'Welcome to Ramey Air Force Base, Home of The 72nd Bomb Wing H, 72nd Combat Support Group'. SAC personnel board the USAF aircraft. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft taxis on an airstrip. Support and other crew personnel standing at the air base. An aircraft takes off. The building of U.S. Naval Air Station. Officers greet each other. An officer speaks to the Operation Duty Officer. Aerial views of the air base.
Rescue services of USAF Strategic Air Command in the United States. Views of flooding of Lake Darling and Mouse River and resulting devastating flood in North Dakota. Houses in flooded water. Aerial and ground level views of flood damage. A truck drives through the water. SAC personnel load sandbags onto truck. The personnel empty a warehouse filled with explosive ammonium nitrate fertilizers, before the flood water reach in. A house trailer, to provide food, clothing and blanket. Congressmen get into a U.S. Air Force helicopter. The helicopter takes off for an inspection trip. Views of the flooded area. The helicopter in flight to evacuate people and injured.
USAF Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, United States. U.S. Air Force cooks serve food. African American children in chow line. A sign on a boy's t-shirt reads "Project R.E.C." which stands for Recreation, Employment and Counseling (a domestic action program of President Nixon). The cooks serve food to the boys and girls in the youth program. Children eat food. A sign at entrance gate reads "Offutt Air Force Base." African American adult participants arrive for vocational training at the base. A man in the program replaces a light fixture on a pole. A sign reads: 'Airmen Swimming Pool'. Children dive from the diving board and swim at the pool. Group of school children visit the Offutt Air Force Base Museum and view exhibits while touring the facility. American flag is lowered and civilians of Omaha standing in the foreground during the flag lowering ceremony.
Slate begins film reading: Sante Fe alongside to take off wounded. (Refers to the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Sante Fe (CL-60) evacuating survivors from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) after it was bombed by Japanese aircraft during World War 2.) View of the Sante Fe starboard of the Franklin. Survivors are watching from the forward section of the Franklin as wounded are transported to from the Franklin to the Sante Fe by bos'n chair and similar means for transporting wounded on cots. Aboard the Franklin, sailors help an ambulatory wounded to a place where medics are giving first aid. They help him to a bed, of sorts that a medic quickly prepares on deck. Sailors passing a wounded to others who prepare him for evacuation. Back on deck, medics are tending to some wounded, bandaging injuries and preparing bed-ridden for evacuation. Intervening slate reads: Most terrific blast of morning.(Note; all explosions are made from ships distant from CV-13. Impossible to shoot film aboard during detonations.) (Indicates that subsequent scenes are filmed from other ships.) Distant views of huge fire ball and dense smoke coming from the USS Franklin. Slate reads: Sante Fe returns. Had been forced by explosions to shear off The Sante Fe seen starboard of the Franklin and closing with her fire hoses directing streams of water on the Franklin. Water running off the Franklin's deck. Small fire seen below decks. The Sante Fe inundating the Franklin with water from her hoses. View of aft deck of Franklin in pieces. Slate intervenes stating: Until dark Father O'Callahan, paying no heed to explosions and his own great peril attends the dying. Glimpse of sailors hauling lines on the Franklin flight deck. Then, Navy Chaplain, Father Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, is seen administering last rites to a dying sailor on the deck.
Japanese enemy bombs hit the USS Franklin (CV-13), aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. Explosions aboard USS Franklin. USS Hickox rescues personnel. Litter case is transferred from the carrier to USS Hickox (DD-673). Other U.S. Navy sailors jump from fantail of carrier to a waiting ship. Two sailors land in water and are rescued. (World War II period).
14th Armored Division (United States) in Gemunden, Germany during World War 2. Soldiers move down street, break doors and windows of buildings in search of snipers. Buildings in flames and smoke rising in the background. Ruins of buildings and fire burns. Soldiers capture a sniper. Sniper is being walked under guard by U.S. Army soldiers.
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