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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.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021560
Bombing over secret enemy dispersal base in Beauvis, France.

Mission over secret enemy dispersal base: bombing in Beauvis, France. U.S. Army Air Force bomb group in flight to hit bombs over target. Aerial views of targets in city. Smoke rises over targets. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 3
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024659
Demonstration of military free fall parachuting at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.

Date: 1958
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027978
P-38 planes complete mission and land at base, including crash landing

P-38 planes over German targets. U.S. Pilots destroy enemy targets by firing aircraft machine guns. A P-38 plane pilot contacts U.S. Air Force Base for crash landing. P-38 plane hits the surface and burns. Other P-38 plane contacts for emergency landing. Ground officers observe the burned P-38 plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030618
The return of the Barbarigo submarine of Italy to an Italian Atlantic Naval base.

The return of the Barbarigo submarine to an Italian Atlantic Naval base. Barbarigo inscribed on a submarine. Measurements of Maryland and Mississippi submarines and dates written on hull of submarine. A band playing on ship. Formation in air by planes. The barbarigo submarine comes. German and Italian sailors greet officers and crew of Barbarigo. Italian ambassadors, Alfieri and Buti, together with Admiral Donetz are the first to congratulate.

Date: 1942, November 12
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675034749
Mechanics stand on hoists to repair engines of B-29 bomber at U.S. Army base in Japanese island Iwo Jima, during World War II.

United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. Mechanics on hoist work to repair engines of a B-29 bomber while other plane takes off. Man rotates the fan of engine to check its condition. Airmen talk near the planes. Hoist kept in a jeep and then mechanics stands on it to reach the engine.

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036219