Bombardment of Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan as seen from the deck of an American destroyer underway off the Iwo Jima Coast. Large smoke columns obscure island and Mount Suribachi. Gun flashes in the foreground. Turrets of USS Wiley fires. Mount Suribachi under bombardment. Gun flashes and tracer fire in the foreground. U.S. battleships and destroyer off Iwo Jima bombard the coast. (World War II period).
World War II in the Pacific. American aircraft carriers underway off the coast of Okinawa on May 14, 1945. Japanese Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber) flies through heavy antiaircraft gun fire. One of the Kamikaze gets hit and crashes just ahead of the carrier. Several other kamikaze planes are shot down. Damage control party aboard the USS Enterprise carrier deck fights fires from a Kamikaze strike.
World War 2. Damage control party board an American U.S. Navy aircraft carrier off the Japanese coast, fights fire caused by a Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber). Kamikaze aircraft on October 30, 1944 dives toward USS Franklin (CV-13) passing just overhead and crashing into the ship with explosion and flames. Heavy fire and smoke on the deck. Wounded aided on the deck.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's vacation cruiser USS Houston underway at Panama Canal in Cristobal, CZ. Roosevelt emerges out of his cruiser and takes salute of thousands of troops assembled at the dock area. Troops fire artillery in President's honor.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in conversation with President Arias of the Republic of Panama at dock in Balboa, CZ. President Arias bids Roosevelt farewell before he leaves in his vacation cruiser USS Houston. Houston underway in the canal.
Port of Lisbon, Portugal. Portuguese refugees embark the transport ship Serpa Pinto, during World War 2. Men, women, and children boading the refugee transport ship. The transport ship leaves the port into setting sun, as people wave at it from shore. Clip ends with separate shot of American Export Line refugee ship, the Excalibur at the dock. (This ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy during World War 2 and renamed the USS Joseph Hewes, AP-50)
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