Fighting Lady, The - Reel 2 - Part 3

Fighting Lady, The - Reel 2 - Part 3 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. Command joking. Map shows Japanese and U.S. task forces engaging in Philippine Sea. Planes engage in dog fight while ships perform evasive maneuvers. Strafing Japanese ships. Planes return and wounded tended. Damaged plane thrown in sea. Painting scores of hit Japanese planes and ships on side of USS Yorktown and on planes. US casualties buried at sea. incl. A-24 Dauntlesses, TBF Avengers, Hellcats and A-25, SB2C and SBF Helldivers