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U.S. Navy engages Japanese fleet in Battle of Midway during World War II

Battle of Midway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2.Opening scene shows fires burning and destruction on Midway Island while Japanese bombers are attacking. U.S. marines firing machine guns and antiaircraft guns, creating numerous black flak clouds among attacking Japanese aircraft. A burning aircraft descending to crash in the sea. Japanese bombs bursting nearby and Marines in a jeep driving past burning aircraft. More bombs exploding. A Marine medical corpsman wearing a Red Cross armband. A Japanese plane streaks low across the sky and a drops a bomb that explodes raising a huge cloud of black smoke from a petroleum fire on the ground. Camera focuses on the huge flames and smoke rising from the oil fire. Closeup of Marine firing heavy machine gun. A Japanese aircraft is struck and the sound of a failing engine is heard. Fire and smoke is everywhere. Next, the sound of a falling aircraft intensifies and a Japanese plane is seen crashing with a huge explosion. Closeup of a burning wing from the aircraft with Red ball insignia visible. Scene shifts to the sea, where American aircraft are flying cover over U.S. warships maneuvering below. View from a U.S. warplane taking off from an aircraft carrier. A loose formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft in flight above clouds. Aerial closeups of some in the formation, including one showing pilot in front cockpit and gunner in the rear. Next, Navy F4F Wildcat and Douglas Dauntless aircraft are seen being launched from a Carrier, where sailors are firing 1.1" quad AA guns, creating numerous black flak clouds in the sky. A 5-inch gun creates a huge ball of fire as it fires. More shots of quad AA guns and 5-inch guns firing, as aircraft continue to launch from carriers. Brief view of the U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-5) obscured by smoke from Japanese bombs hitting her boiler. The Japanese aircraft veering away from it after their attack. More views of anti aircraft guns firing from the camera ship (an aircraft carrier) and of Japanese aircraft attacking. Another brief glimpse of the USS Yorktown clouded by smoke. Sound of an airplane crashing into the sea and glimpse of pleased American Navy officers and sailors. More glimpses of the Yorktown billowing black smoke.

Date: 1942, June
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071187
Aftermath of the Battle of Midway in World War II

Views of U.S. Navy pilots, their aircraft, and aftermath of Japanese bombing of Midway Island, in World War 2. Opening scene shows a formation of U.S. Navy Douglas Dauntless aircraft in flight. A U.S. Navy pilot climbs from the cockpit of an F4f Hellcat airplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. His aircraft displays symbols for two Japanese aircraft downed. Another pilot in cockpit of his airplane that displays symbols for 7 downed Japanese aircraft. He climbs from his cockpit. Other pilots climbing out of their aircraft. One displays symbols for 6 kills. Three of them pose in front of an airplane. Scene shifts to Midway Island where a hangar is still burning from Japanese bombing. Glimpse of Gooney birds. Sentries stand on the airfield, with black smoke rising in the background. Closeup of wing from a downed Japanese airplane. Marines look through tangled pieces of crashed airplanes. One leans on a bent propeller blade. Heavy black smoke from petroleum fire is seen in background. Scene shifts to a PBY Catalina flying boat in flight, searching for survivors of the Battle of Midway. A U.S. Navy aircraft is seen floating in the sea, as a Navy warship heads toward it. A survivor is seen being helped from a PBY aircraft. Earlier picture of him smoking a cigarette inside the PBY aircraft. Sailors help him to a waiting ambulance. Other rescued survivors are seen standing about. Sailors place a litter aboard a PBY and use it to transport another survivor to sick bay. (Narrator states this is the 13th survivor rescued by the pilot of this PBY Catalina.) Ambulatory survivors being covered with blankets as they sit in the back of an ambulance, that then drives away with back door still open. Views of destroyed hospital on Midway Island. Red cross markings on are shown in the debris.

Date: 1942, June
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071188
Assembly of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs and mounting of bombs on USAF F-4D at Ubon RTAFB in Thailand during the Vietnam War.

The mounting of assembled Laser-Guided Bombs on USAF F-4D fighter-bomberat Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Airmen attach laser unit (DCU-141/B) on the front of Mark 84 Laser-Guided Bombs (LGBs) mounted on USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II fighter-bomber. The airmen attach canard fins to the unit and insert tail fuse in the bomb.

Date: 1969
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071234
Air Operations aboard the Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) immediately prior to the entry of the United States into World War II

Aerial view looking down at the U.S. Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) underway below, just before America's entry into World War 2. Her deck is filled with aircraft. Camera view from on the flight deck shows it filled with Grumman F4F Wildcat planes. Pilots are scrambling to some of the planes. Two deck crew sit at the wheels of an 4F4 (as if ready to pull chocks). The engine starts and runs. Several F4Fs have engines running and begin to taxi. One is given clearance to take off and commences its roll with considerable wing flap extension (short takeoff technique). The aircraft takes off and banks right as it clears the carrier deck. Next, two F4Fs are seen in flight above some clouds. Next, a large formation is seen, and individual planes bank and dive from it. Back on the carrier deck, more F4Fs have their engines running. A gunner is seen setting his machine gun into the rear cockpit position of a plane, the narrator calls a versatile scout-bomber. Closeup of the aircraft (a Douglas SBD Dauntless) as engine starts, deck crew pull chocks, and the pilot gets clearance to take off. Next, camera shoots from rear cockpit, with the plane's tail in center of the images. Views cover the complete takeoff and flight away from the carrier. Next an SBD is seen in flight with both front and rear cockpits open. A flight of three SBDs in formation. Closeup of two SBDs in formation. Extreme closeup of SBD with pilot and gunner both clearly visible in open cockpits. The gunner is maneuvering his machine gun. Two SBDs demonstrate rapid descents as in dive bombing. Back on the carrier, an SBD, with wings folded, is maneuvered by sailors, on the hangar deck. Next sailors accompany a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber on an elevator up to the flight deck. With its wings still folded, they maneuver it into position on the flight deck. An armorer, using a dolly, rolls a bomb to a TBD where two others secure it in a bomb rack under the center of the aircraft. Other armorers distribute machine guns and ammunition to gunners in cockpits of aircraft on the deck. Several TBDs begin taking off. View from hangar deck, of one airborne and departing. A formation of 9 TBDs in flight. (Note: This clip was probably shot in November 1941, based on the aircraft markings in use at the time. Life magazine did a series of stills, and these clips look like they came from that photo session. Enterprise wears Measure 1 camouflage, which she wore from mid-1941 to a month or two into 1942. The flying units aboard are all designated "6" the same as their carrier, CV-6. Thus they are VF-6; VB-6; VT-6, etc.)

Date: 1941, November
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071274
Interment of U.S. soldiers killed in action, at cemetery in Bastogne Belgium. Generals Taylor and McAuliffe converse.

U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium in World War II. Soldiers dig trench graves. Covered bodies of dead U.S. soldiers lie in the snow, awaiting burial. Demolished vehicles on a snow-covered road. Soldiers examine damaged vehicles. One points out various holes in a vehicle. U.S. Commander of 101st Airborne Division, Major General Maxwell Taylor, congratulates the Division's Artillery Commander, Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe for the defense of Bastogne. They stand on a snowy street in front of a sign on a building, reading Bastogne .

Date: 1945, January
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071304
Engineers use construction equipment to level the land and work to prepare the Operation Sandstone nuclear test site at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands..

U.S. Army Engineers and their role in preparation for the nuclear bomb tests on at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, during Operation Sandstone. Bulldozer being driven up, large crane hoists construction material in the background. Engineers use construction equipment to level the land for atomic bombs testing. An engineer pushes construction material on metal conveyor. Engineers throw sacks on site from a truck trailer. They shovel soil. Front end loader levels the land. Engineers use hand tamper. Engineers work to construct an airstrip and parking area.

Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071371