WWII - 1944, Pacific: US Carrier Task Force In The Philippine Islands, David McCampbell

WWII - 1944, Pacific: US Carrier Task Force In The Philippine Islands, David McCampbell LS Aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) burning 12:22:16 MCU & MS Men treating injured Japanese on deck of carrier. Injured carried off on litter. 12:23:08 Slate: 24Oct44. Camera L.C. Cook. Aerial view thru light clouds of many islands. Aerial of task force ships underway. 12:23:39 Smoking plane overhead; view landing on carrier, men runout w/ hoses. GOOD. 12:24:12 Vehicles on smoking deck of aircraft carrier. Carrier on horizon burning. Sinking ship or plane. 12:26:01 CU Sailor w/ binoculars looking up & around. Plane making carrier landing & taxiing forward as another comes in to land. Several landings. One w/ only one wheel down; propellor digs into deck. Firehose run out as men get pilot out of plane. 12:28:17 Tractor & hoist to plane. 12:28:30 Carrier Essex in MLS seen w/ planes circling & landing. 12;28:42 MCU Plane taxiing on carrier deck. 12:28:52 View of planes in formation from carrier. 12:28:59 Plane passes low over deck, second plane lands. Overhead of crewmen looking at heavy wing damage. MCU pilot in plane. 12:29:48 Three planes after taking off from carrier; others in air after taking off. 12:30:18 MS pilot in plane, taxiing on carrier deck. 12:30:35 HA of pilots rushing onto deck, two men laying injured. Into planes. 12:31:03 Slate: illegible. Officers standing watching, greeting smiling pilot, David McCampbell, commander of Essex Air Group. MS pilot climbing into plane w/ 21 Japanese mission flags below F6F Hellcat cockpit w/ Minsi III; McCampbell gives thumbs up, MCU. 12:32:05 LS w/ deck filled w/ planes w/ wings up, engines starting & wings lowered. 12:32:29 Signalman flagging planes off. 12:32:46 MS Minsi III w/ 19 battle flags, taxiing, shutting down & pilot out. MCU Officers greeting McCampbell & given two mission stickers who gives them to crew who apply to plane. 12:33:48 MCU in plane & beginning taxi w/ thumbs up. Puts down goggles. WW2; Naval Aviation; Carrier Activities; NOTE: McCampbell was US Navy’s highest scoring ACE.