CU. Aircraft comes up on lift. (First 7' for super.) LV. Men preparing aircraft, including 'Fireflies' and 'Sea Furies'. SV. 500 lbs. bombs being wheeled to a/c. SV. Bombs being wheeled across flight deck. SV. Man runs across deck pushing bomb. SV. George Barlow of Newcastle...
CU. Aircraft comes up on lift. (First 7' for super.) LV. Men preparing aircraft, including 'Fireflies' and 'Sea Furies'. SV. 500 lbs. bombs being wheeled to a/c. SV. Bombs being wheeled across flight deck. SV. Man runs across deck pushing bomb. SV. George Barlow of Newcastle fusing 500 pounder. CU. George Barlow. SV. Ratings preparing rockets. SV. Peter Meech of Flintshire, N.Wales and bearded Charles Ward of Highgate loading a Firefly with canon shells. CU. Charles Ward. SCU. Canon shells. CU. Peter Meech. SV. Pilots walking to a/c. SV. Pilot gets into plane. SV. First plane takes off. SV. Pan another plane takes off. SV. Chocks placed into position for next plane. SV. Plane taxiing up to chocks. SV. Catapult being attached. SV. Catapult attachment being fitted, men working in prop. slipstream. SV. Man operating catapult lever. Plane taking off. LV. Planes flying away.
Korea:
GV. Front line, machine gunners firing. CU. Machine gunner. LV. Positions under fire. SV. Machine firing. LV. United Nations (UN) tanks hit in action. SV. Crew jump from tank. SV. Crew run across lays smoke screen. GV. Plane bombing. GV. Another shot, plane bombing. GV. U.N. bombardment.
Yellow Sea: GV. plane returning to Glory. SV. Plane flying towards. SV. man with bats. LV. Plane landing. SV. Another plane approaching. LV. Plane makes bumpy landing. T/V Plane taxiing along deck. SCU. Pan Lt. John McCandless of Scotland and Lt. Graham Foster of Hertfordshire. CU. McCandless. SV. Pan, pilots walking along deck. GV. Flight deck.
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