FLIGHT OPERATIONS USS SAIDOR Part 1

Description

MS -CU Sailors working on blade of helicopter.MS-LS Helicopter landing aboard USS SAIDOR showing Adm Sprague getting out of helicopter.MS Showing Adm Sprague and other Navy officers coming out of hatch of ship onto flight deck, MS Helicopter taking off from flight deck.MS Plane handling crew folding wings on F6F.MS-CU Various crew members lying on flight deck sunning themselves, planes and target ships BG. CU Men sunbathing.MS-CU Sailors and marines handling oxygen bottles for actelylene welding.MS-CU Capt MacElroy and pilots being briefed on flight deck of SAIDOR around rubber relief map of Bikini Atoll.LS Crane by F6F wing and landing gear, target ships.MS-CU Pilots gathered around map with geiger counter.MS-CU Plane mech. working on J2F5 engine.MS-CU Various shots on flight deck of pilots.CU Pilot getting into F6F.MS-CU Capt MacElroy briefing pilots around rubber relief map of Bikini Is.SV

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities