General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. Bombardment of Iwo Jima ; Routine activities aboard USS Plaice ; Signalman, Japanese air attack ; USS England transfers supplies at sea ; Secretary of Navy arrives at NAS, Honolulu

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. Bombardment of Iwo Jima ; Routine activities aboard USS Plaice ; Signalman, Japanese air attack ; USS England transfers supplies at sea ; Secretary of Navy arrives at NAS, Honolulu, The Hawaiian Islands ; F.E.A. garden project at Guam

1945

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1) HS Wake of DD underway. 2) HS Waves breaking over bow of DD underway. 3) GV CLs & BBs bombarding Iwo Jima. 4) LS-Pan Planes making strafing & bombing runs on Iwo Jima. 5) LS Fire bombs burst on Mt. Suribachi. 6) MS LCI (G) strafing Iwo Jima. 7) GV Wave of LVTs underway to beach, DD & CV bombarding BG (good). 8) GV Phosphorous shells burst & fire burn fiercely on side of Mt. Suribachi. -- 1) CU Conning officer in sub using periscope. 2) CU Forecastle of sub underway on surface. 3) CU Conning tower on surface, lookouts watching horizon. 4) CU Conning officer & lookout on top of flying bridge of sub underway on surface. -- 1) MS-CU Signalman raises & lowers signal hoist -SV. 2) LS Japanese plane passes midst flak bursts. -- 1) MS SC underway, bow-on view, men on deck of DE FG. 2) MS Transferring supplies at sea from DE to SC alongside -SV. -- 1) MS Secretary of the Navy Forrestal alights from transport plane at Pearl Harbor, officers greet him on ground, salutes all around. Note: Shot includes Adm. Bagley, Com 14. 2) CU Pilot of plane with Secretary of the Navy's flag painted on cowling. -- 1) MS-CU Garden project, carabao FG, sprinkler system BG. 2) MS Man changes angle of sprinklers. 3) MS-CU Tractor draws corn planter.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...