Activity aboard USS Los Angeles (CA-133) in Yokosuka, Japan. United States sailors remove a gangway with the help of a crane. A group of sailors pull a rope. The sailors scrub the deck aboard USS Los Angeles while officers watch them perform their task.
Activity aboard USS Los Angeles (CA-133) in Yokosuka, Japan. United States sailors start a drone power unit which is placed on a stand. An auxiliary power unit is used to start the drone. The engine starts with front propeller in motion. A group of sailors observe the drone power unit. They adjust gas mixtures after the drone is started.
Activity aboard USS Los Angeles (CA-133) in Yokosuka, Japan. United States sailors mount 30 caliber machine guns on a helicopter. They fire Quad 40mm guns rotating the turret in various directions. The sailors secure the helicopter in rainstorm on the wet deck. The pilot and other officers board the helicopter and strap themselves. The helicopter takes off from USS Los Angeles deck.
Activity aboard USS Los Angeles (CA-133) in Yokosuka, Japan. Turrets of Quad 40mm guns aboard USS Los Angeles. The ship sails smoothly on the water surface.
From a 1943 newsreel covering the Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942. United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in Japanese waters. B-25 Mitchell medium bomber planes lined up on the deck of the carrier. Lt. Col. James Doolittle and Hornet skipper Captain Marc A Mitscher with the 80 volunteers seated near a 500lb bomb on board. He ties a Japanese medal (awarded to U.S. officers for humanitarian aid to Japanese people) on the bomb. The carrier in heavy seas 800 miles off the Japanese coast. A Japanese patrol boat is sighted and sunk. The survivors are taken prisoners. The crew readies the loaded bombers. General Doolittle in the cockpit as he leads the takes off. The planes take off in rough weather to bomb Japan. The Yokosuka Naval Base bombed and ablaze. The planes bomb armed plants, rail yards and oil refineries all over Japan. Soldiers examine a wrecked B-25 in Japan. U.S. pilots hold traditional Chinese umbrellas and pose with a Chinese man. Chongqing: Soong May-ling, better known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, awards General Doolittle and his men for the gallant raid. (World War II period).
U.S. troops with captured Japanese suicide bomb rocket in Okinawa. Japanese suicide bomb (Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka) is described and disassembled. Tail section is detached by men showing the rear units of bomb. Man works on cockpit of bomb. Men disarm bomb. (World War II; WWII;World War 2; WW2)
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