WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific Naval Battle: Bunker Hill (CV-17) Burning & Survivors Rescued, ca 11May45

WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific Naval Battle: Bunker Hill (CV-17) Burning & Survivors Rescued, ca 11May45 Men tend USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) wounded on deck of USS THE SULLIVANS (DD-537). Pan USS Osberg (DE-538. Injured on DD-537. 10:45:42 MS Men lying on raft in water, swimmers w/ lines pulling to ship. GOOD. 10:45:49 Hospital ship stack w/ red cross & US flag at half staff . MS Men in stretcher transferred from DD-537 to hospital ship, USS BOUNTIFUL, (AH-9) w/ MS nurses & officers at ship’s rail. Carrier & AH-9 alongside. 10:46:55 LS USS BUNKER HILL burning & trailing large smoke cloud. 10:47:27 CU damaged BUNKER HILL w/ sailors cleaning up & inspecting damage seen from ship alongside. 10:48:46 Debris in water. 10:49:04 MS Men swimming in water seen from above w/ men hauling them in. Pan men in water. Whaleboat moving among them. 10:50:02 Survivors in motor whaleboat alongside ship; men helping survivors into whaleboat. MCU man in life vest swimming. Man helped over side of DD. 10:51:50 MS Men in bosun’s chair transferred from CV to DE. Pan men watching from above on carrier. 10:52:22 Men on bow of DE watching jettisoning of wreckage from flight deck of BUNKER HILL. 10:53:04 LS BUNKER HILL burning & passing close; large flames, smoke. 10:54:09 Men in water. 10:54:22 LS Bunker Hill burning. Flak in sky. Burning Bunker Hill. Color; Horrors of War; NOTE: Hit 11May45 by 2 kamikaze off Okinawa 373 killed, 264 wounded. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.