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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1344-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: USA
Location: Pacific
TC Begins: 10:59:52
TC Ends: 11:07:52
Duration: 00:08:00
WWII - 1944, Marianas Turkey Shoot: Flaming Japanese Planes into Sea, Jun44 LS across water to island; destroyer underway; gunboat underway 11:03:35 Dusk, MLS battleship USS WASHINGTON (BB56) firing heavy guns w/ large flashes & AA batteries w/ tracers. MS Japanese planes pass aircraft carrier; many tracers. 11:04:19 Flaming Japanese plane crashes into water. MS Flaming Japanese plane flies thru air. GOOD. 11:04:34 MS WASHINGTON lighted up from firing AA guns, tracers, night action, (good). 11:04:39 View of night calm sea. 11:04:43 Sea w/ light white caps on surface waves. 11:05:14 MS Washington w/ flak in background. LS Japanese plane passes in cloud of tracers, dives into sea near ship. 11:05:44 Flak & explosion in water in front of aircraft carrier. LS Japanese planes crash into sea off bow of CV; flak bursts in air. 11:06:13 LS Japanese plane hit & bursts in flames & falls into sea amidst AA bursts, CVL, DD FG. 11:06:36 LS Pan BB, CV & CVL, flak bursts in air. LS of Task Force. WW2 Battle of the Philippine Sea; Pacific Islands; Fighting; Naval Battles; Kamikaze; NOTE: Much of reel underexposed. NOTE: Occurred 19-20Jun44 off Mariana Islands.