USS Hornet (CV-17) Flight Deck & Japanese Kamikaze Attack, 1945
United States Naval Photographic Center film #11742 National Archives description “1) CU Aviation ordnanceman loading 50 cal. machine gun magazine.2) MS Many aviation ordnancemen loading 50 cal. machine gun.3) MStoCU Destroyer coming alongside.4) MStoCU Transfer of supplies while underway.5) CU Barber shop.6) CU F6F (Cougar) landing and flipping over; several other aircraft approach for landing and flips over (SV).7) AV Smoke columns rising from shore bombing.8) CU Plane captain turning propeller.9) CU Pilot in the cockpit of an F6F.10) HS Jeep upside down on the hangar deck elevator; men using fire hose for fire.11) CU Cougar noses over on landing.12) MS Task Force under air attack; much flak in sky.13) CU-MS F6F lands and is spotted forward on the flight deck.14) MS Planes are spotted aft in preparation for take off.15) LS Japanese plane crosses sky after much anti-aircraft fire; 20 and 40mm tracers are in view.16) LS Japanese plane dives toward the sea aflame.17) LS Sunset as battleship crosses the horizon; aircraft circling and making landings aboard the battleship.18) MS-CU F6F crashes into the island structure on landing. QUALITY: FAIR” National Archives Identifier: 79130
