Fighting Lady, The - Reel 2 - Part 1

Fighting Lady, The - Reel 2 - Part 1 Military Documentary: highlights functions and duties of The Fighting Lady, pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, and crew activities. Maps illustrate movement of Pacific Fleet and its engagement with the Japanese in 1943 and 1944. Truk, Caroline Islands: Strafing Japanese ships filled with TNT - explosions. Bombers return from mission and land on carrier. Airgroup commander arrives wounded. Crash landing on carrier. Wounded on stretchers. 21:31:26 Map shows advance from Truk, Caroline Islands, to Kwajalein in Marshalls. US Fleet en route to Kwajalein: carriers, cruisers, battleships. Men relaxing aboard ship and in water - bathing, diving from ship and fooling about. Ship post office - sorting mail. Troops given pep talk on deck. Activities on board - resting - eating - CU serving drinks from fountain and ice cream - watching movies. Carrier Yorktown underway. Patrol intercepts Japanese reconnaissance plane - Kawanishi seaplane - downed by hellcats. 21:38:14 Command meeting. Map shows route from Kwajalein to Marianas. Preparing and loading ammunition and bombs; torpedoes; daisy cutters; rockets. incl. A-24 Dauntlesses, TBF Avengers, Hellcats and A-25, SB2C and SBF Helldivers