Views from the adjacent Hammond Army Air Field, as U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 aircraft fly very low and engage in live fire training over the Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range. Antiaircraft gunners of the 55th Brigade AAA practice sighting and tracking these aircraft as part of their own training. Gun sight view from a 40 mm Bofors gun tracking incoming aircraft. Formation of U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder aircraft high above the training area (probably engaged in bombing training)..
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. aircraft carrier underway at sea. Smoke rises from near the carrier as it fires guns at the kamikaze aircraft Anti aircraft guns being fired. Japanese Kamikaze aircraft in flight is hit, on fire, and begins falling toward the ocean.
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Japanese Kamikaze aircraft in flight over a fleet of U.S. warships. Fire on a ship. An aircraft is hit and it spirals down.
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A Kamikaze aircraft in flight. It crashes into a U.S. warship. Thick black smoke rises from the ship after the collision.
Japanese Kamikaze pilots attack U.S. warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Thick black smoke rises from a burning U.S. warship. The mast of the ship burns. Crew members run on the deck of the ship.
Camera follows American troops as they comb through hiding places at the end of the battle for Saipan in World War 2. Small children hiding among some boulders. Next a Japanese woman and four small children are seen seated on the ground. A U.S. soldier bandages the arm of one child. A group of American soldiers searches for Japanese soldiers near a cave. Two soldiers seen firing at a suspected Japanese enemy position. Next, they search the underbrush and retrieve a box of canned goods next to the body of a dead Japanese soldier. A dead Japanese soldier floating in a stream. U.S. infantrymen continuing their search for Japanese holdouts. One retrieves an abandoned Japanese rifle. Another holds a Japanese grenade. One GI displays a Japanese long Arisaka Type 38 rifle with a Type 30 bayonet. (The rifle is 4 feet, 2 inches long and the bayonet 20 inches, making it almost 5-feet in overall length.) Camera pans across misty landscape near the shore, with so-called "suicide cliff" in background. A woman and small girl sitting beneath a rough shelter.
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