GSAP Gun Camera Of Raids On The Philippine Islands; Gun Camera Over Okinawa; USS Monterey (CVL-26) Raid, Palau Island, 1945

About this film

United States Naval Photographic Center film #2772 . National Archives description "AV Low pass over countryside at Japanese plane, which is shot down and explodes.AV Strafing cultivated land, and strafing at random.AV Strafing locomotive; TBM flies by in the FG.AV Four bomb drops; then pilot strafes fishing boat.AV Strafing revetments; smoke throughout area.AV Strafing small Japanese freighter, which has been beached (SV).AV Strafing small buildings.AV Vertical strafing attack on Japanese DD, which is underway.AV Strafing Japanese LST or another type of landing vessel (SV).AV Japanese large landing craft underway; bomb explosion alongside.AV Strafing Japanese fishing boat (SV).A to A Firing at Japanese "Zeke"; smoke coming from plane as it is hit.A to A Smoke pouring from tail of Japanese fighter plane (dark).AV Four large bomb explosions alongside Japanese fishing boat; another boat burning in BG.A to A Japanese plane is hit, burns, and plunge earthward(RtoL).AV Bombing attack on Japanese freighter.QUALITY FAIR GUN CAMERA OVER OKINAWA AV Rocket attack on hillside; large explosion as bomb is dropped.AV Strafing roadway. PLANES FROM USS MONTEREY (CVL-26) RAID PALAU ISLAND A to A Ja…

Directors & creators

United States. Navy

Subjects

WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, Japanese, GSAP, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, Gun Sight Aiming Point, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, Mitsubishi G4M (Bomber), USS Monterey (CVL-26), Mitsubishi A6M (Fighter Plane), USS Monterey, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, Japanese, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Palau, Aichi D3A, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island, Avenger (Fighter Plane)

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