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WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific: Aircraft Carrier Activity

Reel Number: H1393-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location: Pacific

TC Begins: 10:15:42

TC Ends: 10:23:55

Duration: 00:08:13

WWII - Color, 1945, Pacific: Aircraft Carrier Activity Night scenes, explosions & flames w/ silhouetted men fighting fire; hoses being played on fire. 10:17:04 Title: Number 2. TBF lands, cables fall. 10:17:23 Plane guided; CU folded wing of TBF showing damage to trailing edge. Men working on damaged plane on flight deck. Plane pushed back & scraps picked up. 10;18:26 Title: Number 3. View of F4U missing one wheel making approach & landing. Another plane lands. 10:18:52 Men working on ?? (may be damaged gun port). 10:19:23 Title: Number 4. Men standing around small elevator looking down; small bombs & rockets arrive on flight deck level, MCU aviation ordnancemen wheel them out of scene on skids. Planes in background. 10:20:11 CU & MS Aviation ordnancemen arming 5 inch rockets mounted on wing of plane. CU printing: ?? Rocket Motor MK...” 10;20;45 Title: Number 5. F6F in for landing, drops fast, noses over on landing, MCU in front of camera. Plane righted & wheeled off w/ bent propellor. High angle of Carpenters" mates repairing damage to deck planking. 10:21:38 MS DD underway alongside, seen across edge of flight deck FG. 10:21:53 CU Damage to F6F. 10:22:07 Title: Number 6. Pilot & navigator out of & beside plane. 10:22:35 LS Large column of smoke rising from burning ship, ship obscured by smoke. Heavily damaged CV underway, flight deck smoking. 10:23:29 Title: Number 1. Smoke or ?? (not useful?). WW2 Naval Activity;

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