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Pacific Carrier Operations 1944
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, aircraft carrier uss essex, f6f hellcat fighters, tbm avenger torpedo bombers, amphibious assault landing craft, mt. suribachi
Synopsis: Aircraft carrier operations aboard the USS Essex with F6F Hellcat Fighters and TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers as well scenes of support ships and amphibious assault landing craft...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:11:51
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Pacific Theater
Pacific Carrier Operations 1944
Aircraft carrier operations aboard the USS Essex in the Pacific; F6F Hellcat Fighter and TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber.
Jeep carrier on horizon, sun setting in background. Grumman F6F Hellcat makes arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier USS ESSEX (CV-9); plane taxis to right. F6F takes wave off. Another Hellcat lands. Pilot in cockpit of F6F, large hole in left wing; personnel examine plane, others converse with pilot. Pilot climbs down from damaged plane; flight deck personnel look on. More F6F Hellcats make landing on carrier deck.
F6F aircraft folds wings, another lands and taxi forward folding wings. Large hole, caused by enemy fire, in wing of F6F; plane lowered on elevator. TBM"s in formation high above water. High aerial view of amphibious landing craft circling prior to invasion assault. Four TBM"s in close formation over large white clouds. Long shot Invasion ships, landing craft off beach of Iwo Jima; hits made on beach, landing craft in water.
Cruiser broadside to beach. Pan, left, smoke rises from Mt. Suribachi. Two AO"s belt 20mm ammunition into F6F guns. Shows twin 40"s AA or anti-aircraft guns manned by crews. Close up of Foxtrot flag. Planes warm up on deck aboard CV-9. F6F taxis for take off pass damaged SB2C Plane on fire on deck edge. Aircraft carrier underway, camouflaged, planes on deck. Smoke drifts across planes from the twin 40"s firing skyward. F6F's parked on flight deck, another carrier underway in background. Close-up of barrels of twin 40 AA guns firing.
Flight deck personnel move F6F, with wings folded across deck. Aircraft gun camera footage shows small ship being strafed by machine gun fire. Shows Japanese transport plane on fire after attack. AO's arming planes. Pilots on way to their planes. Shows fire on aircraft carrier deck. Damage control crews fight fire.
