WWII - 1945, Bombardment of Japan by 3rd fleet

WWII - 1945, Bombardment of Japan by 3rd fleet Title card ‘USS South Dakota: Strike on Tokyo’ LS Essex-class aircraft carrier underway; Iowa class BB-BG. CU 40 mm gun crew at their station. AV over the first & second gun turret of the South Dakota as both turrets fire good. MS two additional Battleships, USS Massachusetts and Indiana fire broadsides - Japanese mainland to the left. LS shoreline of Kamaishi, Honshu, smoke columns rising from 16" shell hits. VS BB squadron retiring from the Japanese mainland inc. LS Japanese mainland, smoke columns rise. WW2; Pacific War.