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| keywords: attack on okinawa, firebombing, fire bombing, aircraft carrier uss midway |
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Synopsis: Allies Begin Assault On Okinawa, U.S. Navy Demonstrates New Aerial Fire Bomb, New Aircraft Carrier USS Midway Is Launched, Allied Armies March Into Central Germany... (read more) |
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Information: 1945 11 min BW |
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Planes from Task Force 58 attack Japanese ships off Okinawa. Japanese planes attack ships of Task Force 58. Several scenes of Japanese planes hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashing into the ocean. British and U.S. Carrier planes bomb Okinawa and strafe ground targets. Shows bow of American battleship underway in heavy seas.
Navy planes demonstrate dropping a new aerial firebomb. Shows fire bomb being used against Japanese cave positions.
At a Houston shipyard a cargo ship is turned over to the French Navy. At Newport News shipyard the aircraft carrier USS Midway is launched. Shows naval hero Lt. George Gay.
Troops of the 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 9th Infantry Divisions attack cities in the Saar Basin of Germany with rocket firing tanks. Shows Major General John O’Daniel 3rd Division Commander. Pontoon bridge carry increasing loads of tanks across the Rhine. Shows German prisoners being searched.
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