Iwo Jima: Navy Carrier Operations 250188-01 | Footage Farm

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[WWII - 1945, Iwo Jima: Navy Carrier Operations w/ FM-2 Wildcat & F-4U Avenger Planes & Black Gunners. ca Feb45]
Fighter landing on flight deck; tractor pulling; taxiing onto elevator, wings folded as elevator lowered. LS of deck, planes parking w/ folded wings on wet aircraft carrier.
18:00:45 F-4U Corsairs taking off low past camera seen from alongside deck.
18:01:24 HA high angle from carrier tower of tractors pulling planes. Deck level of bombs wheeled toward planes; crewman walking into wind in rain gear; planes flagged & taking off.
18:02:14 Planes in for carrier landing in rain; taxiing & parking. Various views of planes; another carrier in LS.
18:03:23 Pilots onto deck & to planes, motors starting seen from tower; CU signal flags in wind. MCU Officers watch from tower; pilots to F4U planes on deck.
18:04:02 HA MCU pilot in FM-2 on deck, crew checking bomb & talking to pilot. LS two other carriers on horizon. HA MCU of FM-2s & F4Us signaled & taking off in rough seas & weather. VERY GOOD.
18:04:56 FM-2 landings; one on belly w/ collapsed gear, firemen; MCU pilot walking away & standing by plane. Gun crew at small anti-aircraft / AA guns alongside flight deck. LA of FM-2 landings. Pilots beside plane gesturing & describing bombing run & dogfight. GOOD.
18:06:05 MCU Anti-aircraft gunners at guns from several angles w/ MCU Black gunners. Various gun crews waiting by guns on edge of carrier. MCU Blacks at guns w/ white officer or ?? Views of carrier on horizon w/ gun barrel in foreground.
18:07:20 View planes taking off into rain w/ carrier tower in left of frame.
WW2 Blacks; Segregation; Pacific Battles;
NOTE: Probably USS Saratoga (CV-3) ca early February, 1945. By 1944 due to shortage of manpower Navy who had previously only used African-Americans in the Stewards Department gave them combat positions as gunners.
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