Testing Air-Sea Rescue Boats, Rockland, Maine, 02/15/1945

About this film

Naval Photographic Center film #15975. National Archives description "1) HA MS Small boat comes up alongside life raft. 2) HA MS Same as above. 3) MS Two photographers, one operating movie camera on tripod, other using Speedgraphic, on fantail of boat, smoke above boat"s wake. 4) HA MS Rescue boat comes up along port side of liferaft; object lifted from raft, brought aboard. 5) HA MCU CG enlisted men lift dummy from raft, place it on deck of bost. 6) HA MCU Dummy, made of rope, in liferaft (SV). 7) HA MCU Rescue boat comes up to floating liferaft; raft retrieved alongside port side of CG boat, dummy removed. 8) HA MS Small rescue boat comes alongside raft; men retrieve dummy, place it on deck of small catamaran. 9) HA MLS Twin propeller driven catamaran, underway. 10) HA MLS Same as above. 11) HA MS CG personnel aboard catamaran. 12) HA MCU Rescue boat picks up raft; second raft floating astern, on port side (SV). 13) HA MCU PT boat comes alongside liferaft; two men pull raft, using boat hocks, along strbrd. side to fantail where men await to retrieve dummy; torpedoes, machine guns on deck of boat; dummy retrieved from raft, which is put in tow. 14) HA MCU Three men on after end of…

Directors & creators

United States. Navy

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945, Search And Rescue Operations, World War II

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