WWII - Pacific, Crashes on Aircraft Carriers & Japanese Attack on CVE-73, Gambier Bay, 19Jun44

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Pacific, Crashes on Aircraft Carriers & Japanese Attack on CVE-73, Gambier Bay, 19Jun44 F-6F crashes on flight deck; sailors towing plane with ropes. 11:26:30 View of landing F6F seen thru arresting cables. Another plane lands; one turns & crashes into gun pit. 11:26:58 Night & tracers. 11:27:00 SBD lands in water. 11:27:07 Piper cub trainer taking off from flight deck. 11:27:27 Japanese Betty thru heavy flak & tracers. 11:27:38 F6F belly lands on flight deck. Men helping pilot out as plane begins to smoke. Men working on plane as pilot climbs out, helped off. Injured man carried in litter across flight deck, lowered on elevator. Crane lifting damaged plane, pushed off ship. 11:29:04 C-47 X133 taxiing; other passed. Men out of plane, half-dozen injured on stretchers unloaded & leave in Army ambulance. Pan of tents. Injured from ambulance into hospital tent. GOOD. WW2; Pacific Islands; Fleet; NOTE: USS Gambier Bay commissioned 28Dec43, sunk 25Oct44. Used to ferry planes to Pacific & returned w/ damaged planes for repair. Supported landing on Saipan 15Jun44; did support on other landings, finally sunk in Battle of Samar. Card sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk