WWII - Color, 1944, Pacific: US Carrier Operations Aboard USS Essex (CV-9) ca 25-29Nov44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1944, Pacific: US Carrier Operations Aboard USS Essex (CV-9) ca 25-29Nov44 LS Escort aircraft carrier / Jeep carrier on horizon, sun setting. Low angle / LA MS F6F makes arrested landing aboard USS ESSEX (CV-9); plane taxis to right. HA F6F takes wave off. Next F6F lands. 14:11:11 HA F6F on deck w/ damaged left wing, flight deck personnel around. HA MCU pilot gets out. i 14:11:29 HA several F6Fs make arrested landings, taxi, fold wings. MS TBM makes arrested landing, rolls to stop. CU Pilot jumps down from wing of F6F. Men inspect large hole in wing as plane slowly lowered on elevator. 14:12:59 AtoA MCU TBMs in formation above amphibious landing craft, prior to invasion assault. LS Five circles of landing craft. Two waves of landing craft in toward beach. AtoG MLS Landing craft & amphibious ships far below. ELS Landing craft circle in several patterns. AtoA HA Four TBMs in close formation over large white clouds. AtoA CU One TBM in flight. AtoG LS Invasion ships, landing craft off beach of Iwo Jima; hits made on beach, BG; landing craft in water; Pan left, cruiser broadside to beach; Pan left, Mt. Suribachi. 14:14:47 Slate: 25Nov44 Aboard Essex Camera: D.B. Jones Roll 1J. CU Two crew put belt 20mm ammunition into F6F. HA CU Twin 40 mm manned by crews; crewmember, FG, looks skyward, second man uses binoculars; 5" guns trained skyward. LA CU "Fox Trot" flag two-blocked. HA MS Planes warm up on deck aboard CV-9. CU F6F taxis for take off; damaged SB2C parked. Fire on deck edge. 14:15:59 Slate: 29Nov44 2J D.B. Jones MS CV underway, camouflage paint, planes on deck. PAN Over F6Fs & other planes parked on deck; smoke drifts across from gun fire. HA MS Twin 40"s fire skyward, smoke drifts off from guns. Planes & carrier alongside. 14:17:19 Slate: Same, 3J. Twin 40 mount guns firing. Planes parked on flight deck; CV underway, BG, off port quarter, gun crews active; smoke drifts from gun fire. 14:17:47 MS Flight deck personnel push F6F w/ wings folded, across deck. 14:17:57 GSAP Small ship machine gunned near beach. 14:18:12 GSAP Japanese transport fired on & burning. 14:18:36 Shipboard HA crew working on plane w/ wings folded; rockets mounted & plane serviced. Ammo loaded. Aircrews to planes on deck, into cockpit. Signaled into takeoff position. 14:20:46 HA men fighting fuel fire on deck; around plane & ship structure. Jeep w/ fire extinguishers arrives. 14:21:44 Two pairs of sailors playing backgammon in gun pit on each side of gun. WW2; Naval Battle; Navy; Naval Aircraft; NOTE: Sell at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk