View of hangar deck aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34). Sailors place flag-draped coffins on a pallet. A Catholic Chaplain (Fr. Conall Richard Coughlin, who is stationed at Subic Bay) shares duties with the Ship's chaplain (a Lt. Commander) as they officiate during the solemn activity. Sailors secure the coffins and roll the pallet across the deck where they fasten it to a crane. On the pier below, a Marine honor guard salutes with rifles as sailors accompanied by clergymen carry the coffins aboard a waiting C-130 aircraft.
View from pier below as crane moves pallet of coffins from deck of the USS Oriskany (CVA-34) to the pier. (These are coffins of those who lost their lives in a fire aboard the Oriskany, on October 26, 1966.) View from behind two clergymen on the pier. Sailors carry coffins as clergy walk with them. Marine honor guard salute with rifles. Sailors load coffins on waiting C-130 transport airplane.
Attacking Japanese aircraft overhead of Task Group 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II. Navy Captain M.E. Browder of USS Sangamon on bridge, talks into radio and scans skies. Gun crews in 20MM gun pits. Japanese planes overhead and many flak bursts over water. Ship on horizon activating signal blinker.
Battle of Corregidor fought between U.S. troops and Japanese troops in Corregidor, Luzon Island, Philipinnes during World War II. Japanese troops lower the U.S. flag and raise the Japanese flag after the fall of Corregidor in 1942. U.S. troops in Japanese prison camps. Invasion of Corregidor on February 16, 1945 by U.S. 503rd Air Regiment and 24th Division. A U.S. convoy underway at sea. U.S. naval battleships attack shore targets. Planes take off from an airfield. U.S. 503rd Air Regiment dropped by parachutes. Paratroopers land in Corregidor. U.S. 24th Division comes ashore in amphibious vehicles, troops land and fight their way inland.
Japanese troops win the Battle of Corregidor during World War II. United States General Johnathan Matthew Wainwright and other Japanese officers at a surrender conference. Officers discuss the terms of surrender. Japanese soldiers march in compound of a building. Soldiers on top of a watch tower. Japanese troops lower an American flag and Japanese flag being raised after they capture the island of Corregidor.
U.S. Task Force 38.3 in Leyte Gulf during Battle of Leyte in World War II. CVLs (Light Aircraft Carriers) and CVs (Fleet Aircraft Carrier) underway. USS Princeton (CVL-23) underway and burning. Japanese plane passes through flak. Princeton burns fiercely following attack by a Japanese Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Dive Bomber. The aircraft had dropped a bomb which struck the carrier between the elevators, crashing through the flight deck and hangar, and then exploding. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat fighter parked on deck of carrier. Explosion on the after-deck of Princeton. Additional explosion on the USS Princeton. Japanese Zeke (Zero) dives on USS Langley (CVL-27), burns in flames, and crashes.