Sailors responding to General Quarters call, run across deck of a U.S. Navy Landing ship Tank (LST) during World War 2. Many are donning their personal life vests as they run. One gun crew sets up at a Oerlikon 20mm auto-fire anti-aircraft cannon that uses drum ammunition. Scene shifts to sailors running, amidships to General Quarters assignements. Closeup of several removing tarpaulin cover from a gun position. Sailors jumping over obstacles on deck as they rush to General Quarters assigned positions.
Several U.S. sailors (or Coast Guardsmen) test fire hose and other fire fighting equipment aboard a Landing Ship Tank (LST) in Portland England, during World War 2. LST is tied up to pier and Verne Citadel and Radio mast are seen in the background. Sailor holds fire hose over the side. Group of soldiers sit on deck of LST eating a meal from their individual mess kits. Amphibious barge goes across harbor. Fuel storage tanks seen on beach in the background, as well as Naval fuel depot at R3 Hard embarkation point.
Film opens showing a Japanese Nakajima B5N (Kate) torpedo bomber flying low over the water through hail of bullets fired from Allied ships, during World War 2. Glimpse of the plane flying past a U.S. Iowa class Battleship. Next, it flies past a U.S.New Orleans Class Cruiser. As it continues flight, away from the camera, a U.S. Mahan class destroyer appears from the left. Flak puffs of black smoke are in the air. Scene shifts to smoke rising from a bombed ship in the distant background. Change of scene shows a U.S. Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft recovering on an aircraft carrier.
U.S. Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-4C Phantom II fighter aircraft, tail number 63-3688, takes off away from the camera. A Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter jet takes off toward the camera . F-105 aircraft dives over dirt target area and another makes high speed low pass over encampment in snow, leaving cloud of condensation behind. An F-105 climbing out at high speed. Another F-105 flies low over an Army M113A2 Armored Personnel Carrier driven on road in desert. Glimpse of an F-101 Voodoo aircraft maneuvering overhead. View from inside reconnaissance aircraft making a low level night flight. Camera on aircraft. Photo interpreters in control room. A C-130 lands on a dirt runway. Fully armed combat troops rush out of the aircraft. Aerial view of C-133 Cargomaster airplanes operating on dirt airfield. One takes off, raising a cloud of red dust, and maintains low, flat, flight path, with very little rate of climb. Views of F-105 aircraft in formations and one flying over snow capped mountains. Several C-130 Cargo aircraft flying in trail formation, low over jungle terrain. Closeup top view of an F-105 hooked up to a refueling tanker aircraft. Next, it is seen dropping away from the refueling boom. Armorers loading tactical aircraft with missiles, bombs, and rockets. Bombs and rockets mounted beneath wings of an F-105 and an F-4 aircraft in flight. Ground crews tending to F-101 Voodoo aircraft in a cold arctic environment. An F-100 aircraft illuminated by the sun while in flight. A pair of F-4 aircraft in flight. A formation flight of three F-105 aircraft flying over an island fort in the sea.
Interiors of U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) 57th Fighter Group officer's club at Alto Air Base, Corsica, France, during World War 2. Officers relaxing. They drink and sing as one man plays an accordion.They clink their glasses together from time to time, as the song calls for it.
A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) P-47 of the 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, taxis, raising dust on unpaved Alta airfield, Corsica, during World War 2. A 65th Fighter Squadron P-47, tail number: 42-75988, named "Dixie Doodle." Its Pilot carries his parachute and places it on wing of an adjacent P-47. Several French AF & USAAF 57th FG P-47s take off over hayfields.
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