FLIGHT DECK OPERATIONS Part 1

Description

JAPANESE PLANE ATTACK ON USS ESSEX AND BUNKER HILL & MEDICAL CORPSMEN & HOSPITAL: TOROKINA FIELD, BOUGANVILLE ISLAND 1) MS F4U's, F6F's, and SBD's landing aboard the USS ESSEX (Very short scenes). (SV)2) HA MS Plane, which crashed alongside the carrier, is sinking; people are in the water.3) LS DD under fire; shell flashes in water near ship.4) ELS Flak exploding in air near several ships on the horizon; superstructure of a carrier in FG; SBD's parked on the deck. This part of the roll is poor footage, scenes very short; PANS jerky, OX.5) HA MLS Jerky PAN of P-40's and F6F's parked on the airstrip; one of the F6F's takes off.6) HA MS Several F4U's parked on the strip, one being refueled.7) HA MS Ground crew members pushing an F4U around.8) HA MLS F4U's taking off from Bouganville on Torokina Field.9) HA MS Two TBM's parked in the field, engines turning over.10) HA MLS Three F4U-8's and one P-40 on the field.11) HA MS Two TBF's taxiing for take-off; several small vessels at anchor in harbor in BG.12) HA MS F4U taking off.13) LS Two F4U's flying overhead. (SV)14) LS Two P-40's flying overhead (SV).15) MCU Sailor with an Aldis lamp sending blinker signals.16) CU Officer speaking into microphone on the bridge.17) CU Hands of man writing in the log.18) MS Large crane picks up a crashed P-40 (SV).19) MCU Ground crew personnel looking at underside of wrecked P-40.20) MCU Several personnel working on the underside of a wing of a P-40.21) MCU Tractor; operator using a winch on the back of the tractor.22) MS Corpsmen and nurses load patients aboard hospital type R4D; the patients are unloaded from truck (SV).23) MS Two R4D's taxi for take-off.24) MS Cemetery, grave markers (SV).

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities