PB4Y-2 Privateer Patrol Bomber Combat Action Korea Coast in World War II - National Archives NARA
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The film is dated 21 July 1945. The war in the Pacific is not yet over, and U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer patrol bombers make regular forays from bases including Okinawa.
The Privateer is much more than just a stretched and single-tail version of the B-24 Liberator. It is a sophisticated electronics platform with radar, jamming gear, and signals-gathering devices its crew deploys against Japanese ships and ground targets.
Caption data accompanying the film says the first strafing scene depicts a Japanese sampan off the coast of Korea. A Japanese Sugar Charlie Sugar - code name for a type of freighter longer than 200 feet - is strafed, and a small Sugar Dog takes hits. By this time in the war, supplies for the Japanese military increasingly moved by small boats such as these. Others were considered picket ships, advance warning posts for Japan, and deemed worthy of targeting.
The turret-mounted .50-caliber machine guns of the Privateer could do serious damage to small shipping.
Return to base means Okinawa, as the Privateer overflies many parked aircraft before landing.
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