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...Dorchester went down 25 minutes later in a rumble of steam; some 600 men were lost, but the heroic chaplains had helped save over 200. The last anyone saw of them, they were standing on the slanting deck, their arms linked, in prayer...
Flying Arrowhead. The Navy allowed Douglas Aircraft Co. to release a picture of its XF4D, an experimental jet interceptor of daring, tailless design. Intended for launching by catapult from a carrier deck, it has been test-flown successfully, but nothing has been made public about its performance...
Navy films of rocket experiments make up the best part of this picture. Shots of the firing of a V-2 from the deck of an aircraft carrier open "Guided Missile." The success of this test was a revolutionary development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first...
...better chasing my MIG with some protection behind me. About 2,500 feet out I gave him a burst and it seemed to hit him all over. I got in a close burst and he poured big white smoke and fire. He rolled over at 8,000, hit the deck and blew...
...nurse is undecided. Wayno takes the submarine down while the pilot's wounded brother is still on deck. He wants no sympathy, he is hard as nails and would do it again if it meant saving his crew. Then he is sent out on a realty dangerous mission locate the Imperial Japanese Fleet...