WWII - 1943, Pacific Battles: Attack on USS Essex (CV-9) & Bunker Hill (CV-17); Torokina Air Field Activity

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1943, Pacific Battles: Attack on USS Essex (CV-9) & Bunker Hill (CV-17); Torokina Air Field Activity MS F4Us, F6Fs & SBDs landing aboard USS Essex (CV-9) (short scenes). 04:10:44 HA MS Crashed plane alongside aircraft carrier sinking; people in water, tilt up to LS DD under fire; shell flashes in water near ship. ELS pan of flak exploding in air near several ships on horizon; superstructure of a carrier in FG; SBD's parked on the deck. (This part of roll is poor footage, scenes very short w jerky pans & overexposed but good action footage w/ planes overhead; ships 5” gun turret turning, barrels raising & lowering & smoke rising from distant ships. 04:14:42 HA MLS Jerky fast pan of P-40s & F6Fs parked on Torokina airstrip, Bougainville Island; airstrip under construction. One F6F takes off. 04:15:23 HA MS F4Us parked on strip, one being refueled. Plane w/ British markings behind. Ground crew members push F4U around. Metal airstrip. 04:15:48 HA MLS F4Us take off & others warming up. 04:16:13 HA MS Two TBM's parked on the field, engines turning over. MLS three F4U-8s & one P-40 on the field. MS Two TBFs taxiing for takeoff w/ small vessels at anchor in harbor in BG. Planes overhead. LS Two P-40s overhead. 04:17:37 MCU Sailor w/ Aldis lamp sending blinker signals. CU Officer speaking into microphone on the bridge. CU Hands of man writing in log w/ Camel cigarette pack alongside. 04:18:01 MS Large crane picks up crashed P-40; MCU Ground crew looking at underside of wrecked P-40. MCU Several men work on underside of wing of P-40. 04:19:02 MCU Bulldozer / tractor w/ operator using winch on the back of the tractor. 04:19:08 LS & MS R4D unloading; corpsmen & nurses alongside hospital type R4D w/ paperwork; patients carried to plane on stretchers (brief). Two R4D's taxi for take-off see past barbed wire fence. MS Cemetery, grave markers & men looking. GOOD. WW2; Aircraft; NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk