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WWII - 1942, Japan: Japanese Into Burma; Bomb Ceylon; Attacking & Sinking USS Hornet (CV-8)

Reel Number: 250157-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942,1940s

Country: Burma,Ceylon,Japan,Myanmar (Burma),Solomon Islands,USA

Location: Khodaung Chaung,Mandalay,Santa Cruz Islands

TC Begins: 02:54:01

TC Ends: 03:00:51

Duration: 00:06:50

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1942, Japan: Japanese Into Burma; Bombing Ceylon; Attacking & Sinking USS Hornet (CV-8) Title. (hum only here) 02:54:35 Japanese tanks w/ flags, up hillside; soldiers walking w/ pack horses past sign 104 Mandalay, Rangoon 326. Another: 82 Mandalay, Rangoon 348 & Hanza 6. 02:55:01 Loading large artillery shells; firing small Japanese field artillery. Running forward toward many oil derricks. CU collapsed derricks & burning flames. Soldiers watching large fires beyond sheds. CU sign on closed gate: B.O.C. Khodaung Gas Station. Pipelines thru complex; pan derricks w/ Japanese troops visible beside tank; soldiers marching. 02:56:11 Mast w/ flag flying, LS of convoy underway. Japanese naval officers on bridge w binoculars; ships guns firing on British ships & sinking one. Ship underway. Japanese aircraft carrier w/ planes w/ visible Jap markings warming up & taking off. Air to air MCU of Japanese two-man plane; view from behind pilot. Explosions around British aircraft carrier Hermes, 09Apr42. 02:57:13 Aerial above formation of Japanese twin-engine bombers; dropping string of bombs on Ceylon. Overhead of explosions. 02:57:28 Montage: docked US carrier Hornet (CV-8); POV from elevator rising from flight hanger deck to flight deck, sailors at attention; LS Hornet underway; view from tower of planes on deck warming up, taking off; ships firing barrage in Battle of Santa Cruz islands, 26Oct42; American anti-aircraft guns firing from carrier; HA man running on deck; flak & falling plane; AA guns firing; explosion beside ship; LS burning carrier; HA deck activity; tracers & falling plane; Japanese plane low past listing carrier w/ planes on deck & heavy flak behind; deck and men crawling across. More AA & planes. American plane crash lands on deck; tracers, flak, carrier turning tightly w/ burning planes on water behind; more deck activity under fire w/ bomb exploding on deck & attempts to fight fire, explosions & burning deck. Planes hit & crashing into water, flames burning on surface. 03:00:21 Men fighting fire on deck, running hoses & fire in gun port. Men lining deck hoisting water aboard seen from another ship. WW2; Pacific Battles; Burma Invasion; Naval Battle; Petroleum; Natural Resources; Japanese Aircraft; Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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