- Title: VM-186A
- Summary: CHESTER NIMITZ: ADMIRAL NIMITZ AND WWII.
- Description:01:00:00 - ROUGH SEAS. BIG WAVES 01:00:08 - WWII SEA BATTLES IN PACIFIC OCEAN. BATTLESHIPS FIRING, MANY CANNON EXPLOSIONS 01:00:27 - ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ MONTAGE. BOARDING SHIP SAILORS ON DECK SALUTE, SHAKES HANDS 01:00:45 - 1942: JAPANESE PLANES COVER THE SKY. JAPANESE NAVY IN PACIFIC. JAPANESE FLAG ON SHIP. 01:00:58 - VIEW FROM SHIP, OF OTHER SHIPS 01:01:03 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS JOUSTING-FENCING IN TRAINING 01:01:09 - JAPANESE OFFICER BLOWS WHISTLE, MS 01:01:10 - FENCING CONTINUES 01:01:15 - JAPANESE WARLORD, GENERAL HIDEKI TOJO GETS OUT OF CAR AND NIGHT, HIS PICTURE IS TAKEN, FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY 01:01:34 - JAPANESE COCKTAIL PARTY WITH JAPANESE HIGH COMMAND & NAZIS. JAPANESE FLAG, JAPANESE OFFICIALS POSE ON STAIRCASE 01:01:39 - NAZI COCKTAIL PARTY, NAZI FLAG HANGS IN THE BKGD, JAPANESE AND GERMANS 01:01:47 - CU HAND POURING CHAMPAGNE INTO GLASSES, HANDS RAISED FOR A TOAST 01:01:55 - AMERICAN FLEET. US BATTLESHIP 01:01:58 - NIMITZ GETS OFF SHIP IN RAIN 01:02:04 - SHIPS PLOWING THRU THE WATER 01:02:09 - SAILORS WORKING 01:02:15 - MEN MOVING BOMB ON DECK 01:02:19 - NIMITZ WALKING OFF SHIP, GANG PLANK 01:02:26 - TEXAS CATTLE COUNTRY. HERD OF CATTLE, COWS IN PRAIRIE, HERD MOVING, COWBOYS ON HORSEBACK 01:02:43 - NIMITZ AS A CHILD, STILL PHOTO 01:02:55 - THE USS CONSTELLATION 01:03:00 - THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: SHIPS FIRING IN BATTLE 01:03:11 - PHOTO OF NIMITZ AS A TEEN 01:03:18 - PHOTO OF NIMITZ AS A YOUNG MAN, SAILOR 01:03:28 - PHOTO OF NIMITZ IN UNIFORM 01:03:32 - ANNAPOLIS GRADUATION: SAILORS GRADUATE, WALK IN CURVED LINES, LIKE A SNAKE, THROW THEIR CAPS IN THE AIR 01:03:45 - MEN WORKING SUBMARINES, SUB SUBMERGES 01:03:56 - WWI SUBMARINES: MEN WORKING IN SUB, TORPEDO SHOT 01:04:01 - VIEW OF EXPLOSION THRU PERISCOPE OF SUB, SHIP ROLLS OVER, SINKS WITH MEN RUNNING AROUND ON THE HULL 01:04:10 - MANY BATTLESHIPS, POV SHIP 01:04:31 - EARLY PLANE LANDING ON EARLY AIRCRAFT CARRIER 01:04:38 - MANY PLANES TIED DOWN ON DECK BI-PLANE TAKES OFF 01:04:45 - 1940: NIMITZ AS REAR-ADMIRAL ADDRESSING SAILORS 01:04:57 - LOW ANGLE SHOT OF JAPANESE FLAG BLOWING IN THE WIND 01:04:59 - DECEMBER 6, 1941: JAPANESE NAVY FLEET. JAPANESE SOLDIERS IN CEREMONIAL ATTIRE WITH SWORDS 01:05:06 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS POSING WITH RIFLES 01:05:08 - JAPANESE SHIPS STEAM TOWARD HAWAII FOR ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR. LAUNCHING SURPRISE ATTACK 01:05:16 - JAPANESE PLANES TAKE OFF FROM CARRIER 01:05:31 - AERIAL HAWAII. 01:05:33 - PLANES DIVE BOMBING. COMING IN, PLANE DROPPING BOMBS 01:05:41 - EXPLOSIONS 01:05:45 - AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS SUNK IN PEARL HARBOR. USS ARIZONA, DESTRUCTION AND DEVASTATION 01:06:05 - SIDE VIEW OF NIMITZ 01:06:11 - HIGH ANGLE SHOT OF NIMITZ ADDRESSING OFFICERS, ALL IN WHITE, SHAKES HANDS WITH OFFICERS 01:06:32 - MAY, 1942. U.S. NAVY FLEET IN THE CORAL SEA. NAVY BATTLES. BATTLESHIPS IN THE WATER 01:06:39 - BOW OF SHIP. SPLASHES OF WATER. 01:06:43 - UNITED STATES PLANES TAKE OFF FROM DECK OF CARRIER 01:06:50 - JAPANESE FLAG, RISING SUN FLAG, WAVES OFF SHIP 01:06:52 - ONE JAPANESE SOLDIER LOOKS THRU NORMAL BINOCULARS. ONE THRU HUGE BINOCULARS 01:06:53 - JAPANESE PLANE TAKES OFF 01:06:57 - PLANES IN AIR 01:07:00 - TWO PLANES GOING DOWN 01:07:04 - BATTLESHIPS FIRING 01:07:08 - BLACK SMOKE IN THE AIR 01:07:09 - BATTLE AIR-SEA, LARGE EXPLOSION 01:07:34 - BILLOWING BLACK SMOKE AT SEA 01:07:46 - THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY. SHIPS ON THE WATER, POV SHIP 01:08:01 - AMERICAN FLAG BLOWS IN THE WIND OFF SIDE OF SHIP 01:08:03 - SAILORS ON SHIP 01:08:05 - CU SWITCH BEING THROWN "ON" 01:08:07 - CU ALARM SIREN GOES OFF 01:08:08 - PILOTS RUN TO THEIR PLANES 01:08:11 - PLANES START THEIR ENGINES 01:08:13 - CU SAILOR DIRECTING PLANE, WEARING GOGGLES 01:08:15 - PILOT IN COCKPIT GIVES THUMBS UP SIGN. JAPANESE FLAGS PAINTED ON SIDE OF PLANE TO INDICATE HOW MANY HE SHOT DOWN 01:08:19 - PLANE TAKES OFF 01:08:29 - PLANES IN FORMATION, HUGS THE WATER, POV PLANE 01:08:31 - MISSING FALLING, EXPLOSIONS, MAYHEM, BOMBING, POV PLANE 01:09:04 - SHIPS SINKING 01:09:07 - JAPANESE SAILORS SWIMMING IN THE WATER, HOLDING ONTO BROKEN BITS OF SHIPS 01:09:21 - JAPANESE SAILORS AT ATTENTION ON DECK OF SHIP. JAPANESE FLAG 01:09:23 - JAPANESE DOING MORNING WORKOUT ON DECK OF SHIP 01:09:31 - JAPANESE SAILORS ON SUB LISTEN TO COMMANDER 01:09:37 - SOLDIERS ON DECK, THEN CHEERING 01:09:44 - BATTLESHIPS AT SEA, 1943: U.S. PACIFIC FLEET BATTLESHIPS 01:09:48 - AMERICAN FLAG ON MAST OF SHIP 01:09:53 - MANY PLANES FLY BY BATTLESHIP GUNS 01:09:58 - MACARTHUR & NIMITZ POINTING AT MAP, PLANNING 01:10:15 - NIMITZ SALUTES SAILORS ON BOAT 01:10:22 - NIMITZ SHAKING SAILORS' HANDS, WALKING ON DECK OF SHIP 01:10:44 - AERIAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. BATTLE OF LEYETE GULF 01:10:48 - BATTLESHIPS CRUISING IN THE WATER 01:10:51 - CU JAPANESE SOLDIER LOOKING THRU BINOCULARS, 01:10:52 - BATTLESHIP GUN TURNS AND CAMERA LOOKS DOWN BARREL 01:10:53 - AMERICAN SAILOR LOOKING THRU VIEW-FINDER 01:10:54 - BATTLESHIP CANNON MONTAGE: RINGED HAND PULLS A TRIGGER 01:10:55 - BATTLE BEGINS, MONTAGE 01:11:08 - JAPANESE COMMANDERS CONSULTING 01:11:10 - TWO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 01:11:11 - JAPANESE SHIP WITH WRITING ON IT 01:11:13 - JAPANESE PLANE TAKES OFF FROM DECK OF CARRIER 01:11:20 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS CHEERING 01:11:22 - PLANE TAKING OFF AIRCRAFT CARRIER 01:11:24 - MORE CHEERING JAPANESE SOLDIERS CU JAPANESE SAILOR YELLING 01:11:28 - JAPANESE PLANES IN AIR, CU, POV PLANE 01:11:37 - SAILORS ON DECK FIRING AT OTHER SHIPS 01:11:39 - PLANE APPROACHES THROUGH GUN FIRE, HEADING RIGHT FOR SHIP 01:11:49 - CU SOLDIER FIRING GUN AT PLANE 01:11:52 - PLANE IS HIT AND EXPLODES 01:11:54 - MORE FIRING, PLANE CRASHES INTO THE WATER 01:12:03 - MEN RUNNING ALL OVER DECK OF SHIPS, MORE EXPLOSIONS 01:12:09 - GUNNER FIRING 01:12:11 - PLANE CRASHES IN BACKGROUND, HAPPY SAILORS LOOK ON IN FOREGROUND, MORE FIGHTING, SHIPS SINKING, ETC., SMOKING SHIP 01:12:31 - ATTACKING JAPANESE CARRIERS 01:12:53 - FIGHTER PLANES RETURN TO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: OUT OF FUEL, BARELY MAKE IT BACK TO CARRIER, MONTAGE OF BAD LANDINGS, MISSILES FALLING OFF PLANES, SAILORS THROW MISSILE INTO WATER JUST BEFORE IT EXPLODES, ALMOST COMICAL 01:14:56 - WOUNDED, DEAD PILOTS BEING TENDED TO 01:15:05 - SOLDIER PLAYING TAPS 01:15:10 - DAMAGED PLANE BEING THROWN OVERBOARD 01:15:21 - BURIAL AT SEA: AMERICAN FLAG COVERED COFFINS ON CARRIER DECK. SOLDIERS STANDING OVER THEM. PRIEST MAKING SIGN OF THE CROSS 01:15:28 - BODIES BEING DUMPED OVERBOARD 01:15:30 - SOMBER TROOPS, HANDS AT SIDES PRAYING 01:15:36 - MARCH 1945: INVASION OF OKINAWA. 01:15:38 - PEOPLE ON CARRIER DECK 01:15:42 - BATTLESHIPS FIRING 01:15:50 - SAILORS UP LOOKING FOR PLANES, BINOCULARS 01:16:01 - FLAK-FILLED SKY 01:16:05 - KAMIKAZE PLANES SHOT DOWN, PLANES CRASHING 01:16:19 - BATTLESHIP GUNS, PLANE CRASHES, LONG DISTANCE SHOT OF PLANE NOSE DIVING TO OCEAN 01:16:35 - CU GUNS FIRING, PLANES CRASHING 01:17:09 - CRASHED KAMIKAZE PLANE BEING HOSED DOWN. FLAMES AROUND PLANES 01:17:16 - MEN LOADING INTO LANDING CRAFT, GOING TO SHORE OKINAWA 01:17:38 - SOLDIERS ON SHORE AT OKINAWA, EXPLOSIONS, MAYHEM, JUNGLE 01:17:49 - BATTLE ON OKINAWA. FLAME-THROWER. 01:18:08 - AMERICAN FLAG BLOWING IN THE WIND 01:18:10 - US TROOPS TAKE EMACIATED PRISONERS 01:18:19 - NIMITZ CLIMBS ABOARD AIRPLANE ON WAY TO MANILA 01:18:32 - PLANE LANDS IN MANILA. NIMITZ GETS OFF PLANE, GREETS MACARTHUR 01:18:48 - AUGUST 6, 1945: HIROSHIMA BOMBED, FIRE BALL, DEVASTATION 01:18:59 - NAGASAKI BOMBED 01:19:06 - NIMITZ AND MACARTHUR ABOARD BATTLESHIP MISSOURI IN TOKYO BAY. SHAKING HANDS, JAPANESE SURRENDER 01:19:24 - MACARTHUR SIGNS SURRENDER TREATY, JAPANESE WATCH 01:19:32 - NIMITZ SIGNS DOCUMENT 01:19:47 - SHIP COMING INTO NEW YORK HARBOR FOR HOMECOMING. MANY SAILORS ON BOARD 01:20:06 - SAILORS SEE LARGE SIGN THAT SAYS 'WELCOME HOME, WELL DONE' 01:20:09 - PEOPLE ON BRIDGE WAVING TO TROOPS IN SHIP BELOW, PEOPLE WAITING, WAVING, SAILORS RUNNING OFF GANG PLANK, PEOPLE REUNITING, KISSING AND HUGGING 01:22:19 - NIMITZ IN REGULAR SUIT, STANDS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN 01:22:28 - NIMITZ RETIRES TO BERKELEY HILLS, NIMITZ PLAYS WITH GRANDCHILD. PICKS ORANGES, CIVILIAN LIFE, CALIFORNIA 01:22:51 - 5-STAR SUBMARINE WEATHER VANE TURNS 01:23:01 - NIMITZ LOOKS THRU HUGE BINOCULARS AND OUT AT SEA? 01:23:28 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-186A