The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1. "Air Sea Battle: surface fleet continues to batter enemy air attacks". Coverage of the Kamikaze attacks on USN TF-58 in the Okinawa campaign. Shows suicide aircraft attacking through an intense anti-aircraft artillery barrage. A damaged USN. F4U Corsair comes in for a landing on a carrier deck, goes out of control and crashes. A spectacular scene of a Japanese aircraft spiralling in pieces after being hit by gun fire. 2. "USS Franklin: heavily damaged CV13 returns under own power". Detached from TF-58, on 19 March 1945 the USN aircraft carrier USS Franklin steamed for Kyushu to launch a dawn attack. A Japanese aircraft scored a direct hit with 2 x 500lb bombs. The bombs caused massive secondary explosions from the parked F6 Hellcats and F4U Corsairs which were fully loaded with fuel and bombs in preparation for the attack. Shows the cruiser USS Santa Fe and the destroyer USS Hickcox assisting in fighting the fires and evacuating casualties. A moving scene of Padre Lieutenant-Commander Joseph T O'Callahan administering the last rites to a dying man on the carrier deck. Father O'Callahan was later awarded the Medal of Honour for his heroism on board the Franklin. The USS Franklin casualties were eight hundred and thirty two dead and two hundred and seventy wounded i.e. approx. one third of her crew. Nearly all her aircraft were lost. Though severly damaged the USS Franklin was able after two days to regain power and eventually steamed via Hawaii and the Panama Canal to New York and the Brooklin Navy Yard for repairs.
The largest Japanese Naval base outside of Japan is attacked by carrier aircraft from Admiral Mitscher's TF-58. The attack was co-ordinated with General MacArthur's land operations in New Guinea. Scen
1. (55 sec) the new US Navy dive bomber, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver 2. (1 min 25 sec) A Japanese attack on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific is beaten off by the accuracy of the American gunners. T
The footage was filmed in the Northern Arabian Gulf, Kuwait and Southern Iraq. It features nighttime bombing missions by United States Navy Grumman A6-Intruder aircraft from USS Ranger attack squadron
RAAF maritime aircraft from two squadrons are taking part in the largest maritme exercise ever held in New Zealand. Two Neptunes from 10 Squadron RAAF based at Townsville and two Orion from 11 Squadro
At sea, view from the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne of a United States Navy destroyer alongside the Melbourne. A USN Martin SP-5B Marlin flys overhead. Long shot of land probably Japan. View of Fai
PACIFIC OCEAN. 1945-03-19. HIT BY TWO 500 POUND BOMBS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS FRANKLIN HAS HER AFTER PART COVERED IN SMOKE FROM FIRES BURNING ON HER HANGAR DECK AND THE RESULTING EXPLOSIONS OF BOMBS
