General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. 1947 - 1980. ADMIRAL HALSEY AWARDED KCB<*>, 8/15/1945.

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General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities, ca. 1947 - 1980. ADMIRAL HALSEY AWARDED KCB<*>, 8/15/1945.

1945

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1) HS Scenes aboard the HMS KING GEORGE V.2) HS Admiral Sir Bruce Frazier as he is transferred to a DD.3) LS Same is transferred to the USS MISSOURI (BB-63).4) CU ADMIRAL FRAZIER and ADM. WILLIAM F. HALSEY.5) CU ADMIRAL FRAZIER decorates ADM. HALSEY with the "Knighthood of the Order of the Bath<*>".6) CU British sailors fastening "droppable" gasoline tank to the bottom of a Seafire British plane.7) HS Carrier deck of HMS IMPLACABLE as the Seafires (British Spitfires conversion) take off.8) HS Plane of same type lands.9) MS British carrier and a US DD refuel at sea from a US tanker.10) LS Bomb explosion just ahead of a DD.<*><*>11) HS Seafires take off from the deck of HMS IMPLACABLE.12) GV Refueling at sea from a US tanker.13) CU Small pail filled with cigars received aboard HMS KING GEORGE from the US tanker.

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