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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220474-51
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944,1945,1940s
Country: Off Coast Japan USA
Location: Bremerton, Washington,Pacific
TC Begins: 14:29:11
TC Ends: 14:36:30
Duration: 00:07:19
WWII - 1944, Pacific: Jap Suicide Attacks on Bunker Hill & Other Navy Ships, ca Oct-Nov44 Main Title: Movietone News over military montage. 14:29:25 Intertitle: Jap Suicide Attacks - First Pictures: Enemy Pilots Fly To Death In Plane “Kamikaze” Raids on U.S. Warships. 14:29:37 Fighter planes on aircraft carrier take off, GSAP of Japanese planes hit, exploding. Japanese destroyer escorts strafed & hit by rockets. Ship blown up. Flying over Kyushu, attack on Japanese air base & Jap biplane in air hit, explodes. 14:30:47 Crash landings on carrier deck; plane crash lands; another goes overboard; another veers off & has to fly off again. Plane lands, explodes, pilot gets out; plane engulfed by fire, pilot seen inside & rescued. 14:31:46 Kamikaze planes shot down by gunfire & crashing in sea; kamikaze flying low very near US carrier, crashes in sea. Ack ack flak in sky. Kamikaze plunges down; crashes on carrier; firefighting. Men rescued after thrown overboard by explosion. 14:33:46 Hit kamikaze falls towards carrier and misses; legs of crew on board running for cover. LS kamikaze crashing into carrier deck; firefighting on board. Burning plane. 14:34:52 Kamikaze hits USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) fire on board, brine from sea poured on by rescue ship. Firefighting on Bunker Hill. 14:35:45 Damaged Bunker Hill in dry dock, Bremerton, Washington Navy Yard. Wrecked briefing room. Repairs. Captain Sykes & crew on board repaired ship cheering. 14:36:26 End title - Join The Mighty 7th War Loan. WW2 Pacific Naval Battles; Fighting; NOTE: VERY GOOD REEL.