U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.
Large U.S. navy convoy with Battleships at sea, Amphibious DUKWs leave LSM Landing ship in deep water and motor to shore. Some are loaded with 105mm howitzers. Other LSM (Landing Ship Medium) maneuvers to beach and DUKWs exit through the surf to drive away on hard ground..
U.S. Marine artillery battery firing 105mm howitzers. Smoke arises due to the firing. Marine watches through the binoculars. View of buildings being destroyed by artillery bombardment. Montage of artillery, machine guns, troops advancing at end of film. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy F9F aircraft crashes while landing on deck of the USS Princeton (CV-37) off the coast of Korea, during the Korean War. Aircraft hits the edge of the flight deck. It bursts into flames. Black smoke arises. Firefighters and men run towards the plane. Men with fire hoses try to control the fire. Injured pilot lies on the flight deck. Men carry the pilot on stretcher.
From a U.S. Navy training film. Rescue operations of a destroyer in United States. A destroyer in the sea. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. A sailor talks on a phone. Sailors take out rescue equipment from a rescue locker. Rescue swimmers wear their dresses for the rescue operation. Small boat lowered in the sea. Sailors in the boat. A sailor talks on the radio. Rescue gear, rescue sling and other rescue equipment on the ship. Sailors check the equipment.
From a U.S. Navy training film. Rescue operations by a destroyer in rescuing downed a pilot in United States. Pilot in the sea. Swimmer arrives nearby him. He ties the horse collar around the pilot. He attaches the horse collar with the rescue rope. The sailors on ship pull the pilot and he is boarded on the ship.
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