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Crippled U.S. Navy bombers and fighters return and land aboard the USS Yorktown near the Mariana Islands in World War 2
'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The U.S. Assault Force battleships including USS Yorktown, USS Colorado, USS Tennessee and USS Pennsylvania advance towards the Mariana Islands. 'The Fighting Lady' crew watches as crippled U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft make landing attempts on their return after bombing the Tinian Island. The Landing Officer signals. Wrecked planes land on the flight deck. The flight deck emergency crew, fire fighters, rescue details and medical foremen rush towards the plane on fire. A torpedo plane on fire lands. Officers and crewmen watch as the emergency crew tries to DOUZE out the fire. Intelligence officers question the pilots in a Ready Room. Radio operators in the Radio Plotting Room send news about approaching Japanese torpedo planes and dive bombers from enemy aircraft carriers. The alarm sounds, crew activity on flight deck, sailors rush to their battle stations. Activity in the engine room and boiler room as USS Yorktown advances on guard. Commander Dixie Kiefer gears himself for action. The ship dog mascot named Scrappy is seen wearing a life jacket.
German soldiers tour an estate, bargain with natives and drink wine at the island of Samos in Greece.
German soldiers at the island of Samos in Greece. Scenes of the island. Life of common man of Samos. German soldiers tour an estate. They bargain with the natives. A soldier talks to a monk on Mount Athos, Chalcidice. The soldiers drink wine. A woman serves to the soldiers. A damaged building. Soldiers walk around it. Soldiers meet monks and move inside a building. A monk shows a photograph hung on a wall to the soldiers. (World War II period).
U.S. campaigns against Japanese in Marshal Islands, New Britain, and Rabaul, in the Pacific during World War II
U.S. offensives against Japan in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. A United States Carrier Task Force in the Pacific Ocean. Fighter planes and dive bombers on the deck of the Task Force. Sailors push trolleys containing bombs. A map shows Marshall Islands. Douglas Dauntless dive bombers take off to strike against the enemy. U.S. Navy fighter planes engage defending Japanese aircraft and down many of them, as seen in gun camera footage. The first wave of Douglas Dauntless dive bombers returns to its carrier for refueling, rearming, and debriefing. Sailors on the aircraft carrier man anti-aircraft guns to defend against attacking Japanese aircraft. Black flak fills the sky and a number of Japanese aircraft are destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire. A Japanese bomb explodes near the flight deck of a carrier. (Narrator notes that 85 Japanese aircraft were destroyed in this one operation.)An animated map shows New Britain Island. U.S. Major General William Henry Rupertus, Commander of U.S. Marines on a ship. He looks through a pair of binoculars as a U.S. planes (B-24 Liberators) drop bombs on Rabaul. U.S. warships launch an attack at the enemy positions. Fire and explosions. The Marines load into landing craft and move towards the shore. They land behind an intense naval bombardment. Marines head ashore from beached LCI-1 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), number 343. M 16 tanks, equipment, and artillery roll ashore from Landing Ships Tank (LSTs). . The tanks lead the way through the jungle terrain and the marines advance behind them. Marines fire mortars as they advance. They flush out Japanese from trenches and bunkers. A damaged Japanese Mitsubishi fighter plane and wreckage of others. Some dead Japanese soldiers. The Marines wade through deep water as they push on to Rabaul. Others advance through deep mud. More views of them slogging through mud.
American warship and destroyer fire at Leyte Island in Philippines during World War 2
American warship,destroyer and rocket ships fire at Leyte Island in Philippines during World War II. Smoke rising from the shores of the island.
U.S. Navy Task Force Maneuvers prior to invasion of Peleliu, Palau Islands in World War II.
U.S. Navy Task Force Maneuvers prior to invasion of Peleliu in World War 2. Ships of invasion task force making simultaneous turns as Navy TBF airplanes fly overhead in formation. Escort Carrier USS Marcus Island (CVE-77) cruising in calm waters. Aerial views from above of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft landing on the Marcus Island.
Operations of United States Coast Guard at Shannon Islands in Greenland during World War II
U.S. Coast Guard Cutters on patrol in waters off Greenland in World War 2. Views of icebergs. The cutter 'Northland' trapped in pack ice. A party of crew members drag a depth bomb across the ice to explode and clear the way ahead. Off the coast of Shannon Island, American guns fire at a German trawler. Coast Guardsmen launch an amphibious assault against Shannon Island, and capture Germans at an outpost on the Greenland site. High powered radio equipment and weather instruments captured from weather stations. Small boats carry German prisoners -- the crew of German trawler captured by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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