Opening scene shows Landing Ship Tank USS LST 1006, with her front doors open after delivering her cargo at shore of Okinawa, during World War 2. Resupply operations are seen with landing craft shuttling between transport ships. Landing ships delivering supplies and equipment directly to the shore. An Army truck drives down the ramp of a Landing Ship Tank. A huge crane installed on a vessel behind LST 633 on the Okinawa waterfront. Vehicles driving from ships to the shore from a Landing Ship Dock (LSD). Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs) numbers 606, 30, and 559 are parked at the shore, delivering vehicles to Okinawa. Suddenly Japanese Kamikaze aircraft begin attacking. View from ship in Navy Task Force 58, as its gunners shoot down a Kamikaze that crashes into the sea. View from island of an aircraft carrier, as all the anti-aircraft guns along the side her flight deck fire continuously raising lots of smoke from the gunfire. A Kamikaze plane speeding across the water at low altitude. Closeup of Navy ship gunners firing. View from a ship's deck of sky filled with tracer rounds the strike a Kamikaze airplane. It explodes into flaming pieces that fall into the ocean close to the ship. Navy gunners firing twin Bofors anti aircraft guns. Sky filled with black flak clouds and tracer bullets. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft (Kawasaki Ki-61) hit and diving straight down into the water where it explodes raising a large cloud of smoke and water. Aircraft carrier gunners firing at a low flying Kamikaze plane that passes the USS Alaska (CB-1) in the foreground and strikes an Essex-class U.S. aircraft carrier. Views of sailors on her flight deck fighting fire. Bow view from nearby ship of heavy smoke billowing from the carrier. Side view of the same. Closeup of sailors cutting holes in her flight deck to allow firefighting hoses to reach fire below. A welder using cutting torch to clear jagged pieces of metal. Firefighters hosing down the deck with foam. A Kamikaze crashes close to another Essex-class carrier, exploding at her waterline. Views of firefighting aboard that ship. Men hauling fire hoses onto the flight deck to bring ocean water up for firefighting. View from above of sailors pouring water below decks. A welder repairing a damaged stanchion. Gunners firing from the ship's superstructure as Japanese aircraft continue to maneuver among ships of Task Force 58. Streams of tracer rounds tracking a Kamikaze plane. View from above of sailors spreading foam over the flight deck. Firefighters playing hoses on pieces of destroyed Douglas Dauntless aircraft on the flight deck. External view of the severe waterline damage to the carrier. Welder working on deck. Landing officer with paddles directing a Douglas Dauntless aircraft landing on a carrier. Sailors carrying an injured flight crew member, across the flight deck on a litter. Dead covered in white shrouds laid out on the ship's deck, for burial at sea.
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