Episode on the Essex Part 1

Description

The original production summary sheet reads as follows: 1) Guns firing aboard U.S. air carrier and a cruiser as a Carrier Group fights off Japanese planes near northern Philippines. 2) Crewman loading shells in anti-aircraft gun; puffs of flak in the sky; anti-aircraft gun firing; tracers in the sky; Japanese plane exploding in air, burning; fragments hitting the water; gun crew loading and firing twin 40mm anti-aircraft gun mount; Japanese planes in flight; fragments, smoke and flame from a Japanese plane crashing on flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) in the battle of Philippines. 3) Fire fighters training fire hoses on burning fragments of aircraft on the flight deck; damage control parties running over flight deck; Japanese kamikaze plane diving and hitting the water off the side of U.S. carrier; crew on flight deck throwing aircraft fragments over the side; Japanese kamikaze plane diving, hitting flight deck of carrier exploding into flames and hitting the water; flames burning on edge of flight deck; a piece of a Japanese plane flying on deck; Japanese plane hitting the water; cruiser firing guns; air carrier on horizon firing guns; a burned and damaged air carrier; fire fighters training hoses on burning aircraft fragments on flight deck; scenes of a large hole in flight deck; burned out and charred parts of catwalk; scenes of the burned bodies of dead crewmen being placed on litters and lowered on the elevator below deck; burial service at sea; body of a crewman committed to the deep. 4) Aircraft taking off from the flight deck and a formation of aircraft in flight. 5) Aerial view, attack on shipping at sea.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Naval Activities