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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1690-05
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1968
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 12:50:00
TC Ends: 13:00:46
Duration: 00:10:46
Vietnam War - 1968, USS New Jersey (BB-62) At Sea, 15-18Apr68 Slate: 18Apr68. Camera, Hayes. 12:50:09 Seaman chipping paint, gathering chips. Seaman using damp sponge scrubbing one of the mounts,. 12:51:14 CU telephone talker on weather deck area, open sea in BG; looking around, speaks into phones. G 12:51:53 MCU Seaman on hands & knees scrubbing paintworkl; pushes dirty water towards drain, squeezing out sponge. Wooden deck beyond, CU Man pushing a corn broom over wooden deck; PAN up to Black seaman w/ cigarette sweeping w/ corn broom. 12:53:10 MS Ship's cook out on weather deck looking up; beside several fire bottles on bulkhead in BG. CU cook relaxing on deck. 12:54:00 MS Looking aft from foc'sle area, showing the #1 & #2 main turrets; personnel thruout area on weather deck. 12:54:21 LS Mild wake of ship, vast open ocean behind. PAN, to crewman in dungarees on stern; second man ibehind; PAN back over ship's wake. 12:55:53 MLS Ship's mast & flag in breeze. 12:56:31 ECU Deck seaman using wire brush on lifeline; tilt up to the man's face. 12:57:27 ECU Boat crewman polishing screw / propellor on one of the ship's boats. 12:58:07 MCU Negro seaman polishing bright work on the lifeline w/ rag. 12:58:29 Looking up toward signal hoist flying from ship. 12:59:18 CU Plaque: 1906 USS NEW JERSEY 1943 w/ battle ribbons; slight PAN, showing a seaman polishing the bright work along edge of plaque. 13:00:20 CU Ship's crewman standing on deck; PAN away from man along low distant shoreline. Navy; Naval Battleships; Sailors’ Daily Life; NOTE: BB-62 was reactivated in Philadelphia & recommissioned 06Apr68.