Flight deck activities aboard a United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. 20 mm guns aboard an aircraft carrier being fired from the gun gallery. An air carrier on horizon as it fires. A covered motor launch comes alongside. U.S. Navy F6F, F4U and TBF warm up as they taxi along the flight deck. Aircraft take off. An aircraft lands on the flight deck.
Troops and sailors lining the the decks and rails of a U.S. Navy transport ship in the Pacific at start of naval bombardment campaign agaist Iwo Jima in World War 2. A collection of nautical flags displayed on the ship. Antiaircraft gun position at top of ship. Formations of U.S. Army Air Force aircraft overhead headed toward Iwo Jima. Deck area covered in gunpowder storage containers (each holding 3 bags of powder for 8-inch guns). Sailors offloading the gunpowder storage tanks by means of a slide from the ship. A triple battery of 8-inch naval guns firing at Iwo Jima.
A U.S. C-54 transport aircraft approaching Honolulu to land, with faint rainbow visible behind it. The aircraft lands and taxis in with outboard engines shut down, to the Military Air Transport Terminal on the airfield. An anchor and four stars on field of blue are displayed below the pilot's window. The aircraft parks and sailors quickly form an honor guard as the cabin door opens. Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, wearing a tropical pith helmet, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Rear Admiral John Towers and other officers. Secretary Forrestal is accompanied by Admiral Towers across the tarmac to a waiting car. He stops briefly to converse with Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, before he and Admiral Towers enter the car.
Aerial views of Allied air attack in Italy during World War II. Aerial views of an open field as an aircraft strafes it and smoke rises. A railroad train strafed, smoke rises. A radio station strafed. Buildings on a farm. Railroad trains strafed. A building strafed, a large explosion occurs.
Aerial views of the Allied air attack on Italy during World War II. Aerial views of a railroad train being strafed, smoke rises. Railroad trains strafed, a large explosion occurs. A train burns on a track. Coastline of an Italian town.
U.S. Major General Curtis LeMay in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Lieutenant General Nathan F Twining and Major General LeMay board the U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 aircraft. General Nathan Twining and Major General LeMay look outside a window from the aircraft. General Twining and Major General LeMay talk near an aircraft hangar as they smoke. Two B-29 aircraft parked nose to nose. Airmen outside and inside the hangar.
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