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U.S. Navy " Navy Wives " Campy Orientation Film for Military Personnel 26484 (1959)

1959 · Short film · 24 min

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Navy Wives is a 1959, color, promotional film for women whose husbands are in or going into the Navy. The purpose of the film is to support and make Navy Wives feel better about what they are about to experience. View of a Navy Aircraft Carrier off San Diego, CA (0:48-0:54). A crowd of people stand around the docks at the San Diego Navy Base (the largest on the West coast) waiting for their loved ones to disembark the Navy Aircraft Carrier ship (0:58-2:41). A sailor waits for his wife who will be getting off a Santa Fe railroad car. The Golden Gate train, one of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway trains, made its last run in April 1968 (2:52-3:41). San Diego Bay (4:52-5:07). Naval Aircraft Carrier (5:44-5:45). Anti-aircraft guns being shot (6:08-6:12). Naval Destroyer ship the USS Prichett (DD-561), a Fletcher-class destroyer (6:26-6:28). Naval Destroyer shooting Anti-aircraft guns during the Korean War (actual pictures) 1950-53 (8:51-9:00). Airplane taking off from a Naval Aircraft Carrier the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Midway-class carrier (9:01-9:09). Hanging clothes on a clothes line (11:03-11:10). 1949 Chevrolet (12:37-12:40). Book: General Training Course for Petty Officers (13:40-13:42). Machinist Petty Officer 3rd class insignia patch (13:43-13:47). He was shipped to Little America, which was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958. Operation Deep Freeze, codename for a series of U.S. missions to Antarctica 1955-1956 (16:27-16:51). Ham…

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Running time
24 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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