A World War II reenactment depicts four Kamikaze pilots on their farewell toast. The four pilots in flight gear stand holding glasses of sake, or Japanese rice wine, on an airfield in Chofu, Japan. They and their commander drinking sake during their farewell toast. (World War II; WWII; World War 2; World War Two)
Japanese people sit outside shacks in Tokyo, Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. Flimsy homes in the background with rugs, bedding, and laundry hung out on the house in the sun. Japanese people living in poverty amid rubble. Woman squats on ground and washes dishes using water from a pump well. Other family members help wash dishes that are laid out on the ground. Two young boy children are seen in the bombed out ruins, and operating a water pump.
An F9F-2 airplane with number 210 on wing lands on CV-37 (USS Princeton) flight deck off the coast of Korea, during the Korean War. It hits the barrier on landing. Deck crew run towards the plane. Pilot in the cockpit.
U.S. Navy F9F-2 airplane from VF-112 squadron is seen tipped on its side after a taxi accident on the deck of CV-37 USS Princeton, located off the coast of Korea. Crew gathered around the plane working to right it. (Korean War period.)
USS Wasp (CV-7) flight operations,prior to World War II. Slow motion sequence, from two different perspectives, of a Grumman F3F-2 Marine Corps aircraft landing on the flight deck. The airplane rounds out high, clips two restraining cables, and stalls, dropping nose first to the deck and falling on right wings, then balancing vertically on its nose, before falling back onto its wheels.
Aboard U.S. Navy CV-7, USS Wasp. SB2U aircraft lands on the flight deck. Pilot and copilots in open cockpits. It lands on the flight deck with its wheels up and skids across the deck.
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