U.S. Navy Documentary highlights functions, duties and crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A sailor looks through binoculars and telescope. A sailor ties a rope. Sailors with various crew jobs stand in a group and talk. They work on instrument and equipment on the ship. The sailors load guns and fire during practice drills. Signal flags being hoisted. Sailors with headphones work on fire control of 5 inch guns. Smoke due to firing. A sailor paints the letter 'E' for "efficiency."
Functions, duties and crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Housekeeping activities aboard the ship. U.S. Navy sailors on the deck do exercises and lay under the sun. A man plays with a dog (the ship's mascot, named Scrappy). The ship leaves the Panama Canal. Reserve, specialists and pilots eat food. Non commission personnel stand in a mess line and serve themselves food. They sit at a table and eat food. One of the sailors smokes a cigarette. The non commission personnel peel vegetables like potatoes and cabbage. A navy butcher cuts slabs of red meat and a cook at work. A pharmaceutical unit and a hospital on the ship. A tailor, a cobbler and a dry cleaner work on the ship.
Crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Sailors on board the day before attacking Japanese forces on Marcus Island. USS Yorktown underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. navy sailors drink coffee and play cards. They lie on bunk beds while listening to a crewman play an accordian. Men with tattoos on their legs and hands. Men play cards. A tanker comes to refuel the ship. Fuel lines between ships with rough seas. A weather balloon is released by a crewman. The skipper talks to the air group commander and view maps of Marcus Island. An animated map with large Japanese logo on it shows the path the USS Yorktown will take through the Marshall Islands to Marcus Island. The air group commander explains about the attack and shows with his hands some fine points in air dog fighting. The crewmen play games and write letters home before the strike. The radio plotting room. A lieutenant named E.T. Stocker plays cards with other officers. Sunset wide shot of USS Yorktown underway.
View of general quarters alarm as the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War II prepares for attack of Japanese forces on Marcus Island. Men run up and down stairs and close hatches and watertight doors while pilots gather in the flight ready room. The U.S. Navy fliers wear their flying suits and get ready for the attack. A sailor responds to an intercom call to flight ready room three and orders pilots to man their planes. The pilots board the planes. The fighter planes. A radio plotting room to keep track of all the planes. The planes fly low and suddenly climb up. View of Marcus Island. The planes bomb Marcus island. Smoke due to bombardment. The bombing of the enemy boats and supply ships. A ship is destroyed. Smoke on the island. The planes in flight return back after the victory. A sailor nicknamed Smoky tracks the flyers to check that none of them is missing.
USS Yorktown (CV-10) in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Navy fighters, bombers and escorts return after bombing Marcus Island. including the SBD Dauntless, TBF Avenger, F6F Hellcat, A-25 Shrike, SB2C and SBF Helldiver land on the carrier. An officer supervises the deck activities. Crewmen signal and guide the planes. An aircraft lands with a ruptured tire. Landing officer warns the crew to keep away on the stern. The pilots go below to report to the combat intelligence officer. The officer and a crewman seated at a table with documents and photographs. The pilots provide statistics regarding bombs dropped, ammunition fired, and targets. They report on shore installations, radio stations, gas dumps, hangars and ammunition dumps set on fire due to their bombardment. Smokey, the radio plotting room in charge, tracks the remaining aircraft over the radio. Crewmen signal on the flight deck as a plane crash lands. Officers and pilots in a meeting.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.
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