Japanese ATTACK ON USS SAN JACINTO (CVL-30)

Description

LS Explosions in the water (apparently a bomb; on the horizon it looks like a ship explodes). DD of the FLETCHER Class underway at high speed.LS BB of the SOUTH DAKOTA Class; much AA gun smoke and flak in the air.G to A Japanese plane going into a dive with much flak exploding around it.G to A Flak bursting in the sky; much smoke in the air. PAN over to two Japanese planes flying by.LS Japanese plne hits the water just to the right of a battleship of SOUTH DAKOTA Class. Carrier of the ESSEX Class underway in the FG.MLS Men unloadig some ammo boxes on the flight deck of the HORNET; men at the 20mm guns in the BG.G to A Japanese plane flying overhead and the 40mm tracers going up toward it.MS Man on a stretcher being transferred on the high line from a destroyer of the SUMNER Class.MLS TBM coming in for landing on HORNET.LS Man in a stretcher being transferred by high line from a destroyer of the FLETCHER Class.CU Side of the DD; the bilge pump has a rag (or something) stuffed in it.QUALITY: FAIR

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities