WWII - Color, 1943/44, Government Documentary: Fighting Lady, The R2 of 2 Pt. 1 of 2

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - Color, 1944, Pacific - Battles, USS Yorktown (CV-10) Pt. 2 Card 1 of 2 Continued... GSAP of strafing of ships continues thru flak; dramatic explosions. 16:31:09 Planes returning to aircraft carrier deck, landing; CUs wounded pilot helped from plane. Crash landings after attack on Truk. Injured carried below. 16:32:00 Animated route from Truk to Kwajalein on map showing Mariana & Marshall Islands. 16:32:09 Fleet of Task Force 58 w/ at least three carriers in view; aerials over fleet including hospital ship. 16:32:51 Carrier deck; troops swimming w/ rubber rafts off side of ship, diving into water. 16:33:13 Ship post office, sorting mail. GOOD. Censors checking mail; sailors writing letters, MCUs. Assembling for announcement of Captain promoted to Admiral, new Captain ?? aka Dixie speaking, SOF. 16:34:21 Raising anchor, signal flags raised, CV-10 at sea & accompanying naval ships. Captain eating. Sign: Squad Ready Rm. Pilots relaxing, CUs. Gunners relaxing & sleeping, reading, at soda fountain, CU making ice cream sodas. GOOD. 16:35:57 Sign: Movies Tonight: Home In Indiana, men watching. 16:36:17 Signal flags CU Dixie & Adm Marc Mitscher. Aerials over fleet underway, aerials of planes, turning fleet. Various shots of cruisers, battleships, navy transports w/ Marines. Japanese Emily seaplane attacked by Navy Hellcats, hit & explodes in water. 16:38:32 Naval officers w/ paperwork on table planning, at wall map. Animated map of route Kwajalein area to Saipan & Guam. 16:38:50 Montage: men loading shells into machine gun cartridges; fuzing bombs, torpedoes for dive bombing. Planes on deck; bombs moved & stockpiled before loading on planes. Rockets. Crew scrubbing & showering. GOOD. 16:40:29 Shipboard religious / church services, Catholic Mass, praying, wafer & host. 16:41:05 Men in bunks reading, napping, aircraft carrier in sunset. 16:41:23 Cooks w/ steaks, eggs on griddle; pilots eating. CU loudspeaker, men to guns. Night battle w/ tracers, plane in flames into water; daylight & fighting w/ explosion near ship, flak, planes burning in water. 16:42:53 Captain at rail, pilots running to planes & helped aboard, propellors turned; planes warm up on deck wings fold down & take off. Aerial of planes in flight. 16:43:57 Men w/ headsets over map. CU map w/ Guam, to Saipan. CU men on microphones & telephones. GSAP of dogfights, strafing on Tinian air strip w/ hangers & planes burning, explosions from dive bombing. Continued... USS Yorktown (CV-10), Fighting Lady; WW2; Pacific Naval Battle; Navy; Aerial Battles; NOTE: Any continuous 15 minutes of two cards (16:30:27 - 16:59:28) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk