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Crew members are inspected aboard USS Franklin in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

A film to honor and remember the men who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A log book entry of USS Franklin (CV-13). Crew on the flight deck of USS Franklin in the Pacific Ocean. Fueling crew in red shirts, aircraft directors in yellow shirts. Men who load armor and aircraft in blue shirts. Men are reviewed by the executive officer. After the inspection men leave for their work. Aircraft taxi on the flight deck on 20th February, 1945. Aircraft of Air Group 35 and 75 take off. Aircraft in a formation flight. Aerial view of the Naval Air Station at Kanoehe, Hawaii. A ship loaded with supplies. Supplies loaded on trolleys. 'Outrigger Canoe Club' at a beach. Fliers on the beach. They sunbathe and enjoy rowing. Sailors board USS Franklin. The ship underway at sea to rejoin task force 58. Escort vessels sail alongside. Aircraft in flight overhead. The ship heads towards Ulithi island. A log book entry. A fleet of ships near Ulithi island. Carrier Hancock in the fleet. The fleet sails towards the island of Honshu, Japan.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050827
Floatplane OS2U Kingfisher in catapult ready for launch from the Cruiser USS Chester underway in the Pacific Ocean.

An American Cruiser USS Chester (CA-27) prepares to launch a scout plane in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A close up of the U.S. Navy OS2U Kingfisher floatplane in catapult ready for launch. U.S. sailors stand under the wing of the floatplane. A sailor climbs up a ladder. Aerial view of the USS Chester underway. Aerial view of Ulithi Island. Aerial view of Ulithi anchorage. Ships anchored at Ulithi. Aerial view airfields and ground installations at Ulithi.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945, February 11
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069340
Scenes of various atomic bomb tests conducted by America during a course of time.

Scenes of various atomic bomb tests conducted by America during a course of time. Shows the atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico(1945). Nuclear weapons tests for shot Able and shot Baker, tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Crossroads(1946). Close -up view of massive nuclear explosion at sea seen from shore with blast wave approaching unmanned ships near harbor and a palm tree on shore seen waving dramatically. Atomic bomb tests at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) In the Marshall Island as part of Operation Sandstone (1948). (World War II period).

Location: Marshall Islands
Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028987
U.S. Navy fighter and bomber aircraft from USS Yorktown strafe Japanese bases and positions on the Truk Islands.

USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.

Location: Truk Caroline Islands
Date: 1944, February
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021560
War Correspondents and photographers in PacificTheater during World War Two. Surrender of Japanese at Truk, Caroline Islands

American combat correspondents and photographers in Pacific Theater during Second World War. Close up of American flag flying over a U.S. military cemetery. A sailor kneels before a cross marking the burial site of a comrade. War correspondent types report on portable typewriter. Combat photographer loading film in his camera. Photographer developing film in dark room. Scene shifts to the event photographed, which is Japanese Lieutenant General Shunzaburo Mugikura, Commanding General, Japanese 31st Army, on board USS Portland (CA-33), signing document of surrender for the Japanese base at Truk, Caroline Islands, 2 September 1945.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053287
B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands after Test Able atomic bomb drop on Bikini Atoll

The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).

Location: Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034527
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