Aircraft Carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-10) also called Fighting Lady, underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. At start, the film shows Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Commander of U.S. Navy Task Force 58, on the bridge of the Yorktown, his Flagship. With him is his Chief of Staff, Captain Arleigh Burke. A sailor approaches, salutes, and presents a document on a clip board which the Admiral signs. The sailor salutes and leaves. Several closeups of Admiral Mitchner looking through binoculars. Captain Burke joins him again and they converse. The sailor, seen earlier, arrives with another document on a clipboard, which the Admiral also signs. The sailor salutes and departs. Film ends with more closeups of Admiral Mitchner.
USS Yorktown also called 'Fighting Lady' underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A high ranking naval officer comes aboard USS Yorktown as sailors salute. U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in a Red Cross uniform comes aboard USS Yorktown. Mrs. Roosevelt speaks into a microphone as sailors listen to her. Naval officers give three cheers and wave their hats. Admiral's barge comes alongside. Ship's band in the foreground. Four star admiral's flag flies aboard the ship. Admiral's barge as admiral goes aboard. Barge gets underway. Admiral's barge underway as men stand at attention near rail line in the foreground.
USS Yorktown also called 'Fighting Lady' underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz accompanied by others as he shakes hands with officers in the operations room aboard USS Yorktown. He inspects the plotting board on the bulkhead. Admiral Nimitz stands on the quarter deck as ship's captain greets officers coming aboard the ship.
U.S. Navy air sea rescue operation in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Aerial view of an aircraft as it approaches a man in a yellow life raft. Aircraft in flight. Aircraft approaches the life raft.
Flight deck activities aboard a United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. 20 mm guns aboard an aircraft carrier being fired from the gun gallery. An air carrier on horizon as it fires. A covered motor launch comes alongside. U.S. Navy F6F, F4U and TBF warm up as they taxi along the flight deck. Aircraft take off. An aircraft lands on the flight deck.
United States invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. cargo ships and attack transport ships underway as sunrises in the background. 20 mm gun barrel silhouetted in the foreground. Ships underway in the background. Men silhouetted at rail in the foreground. A convoy of ships underway at sea. A group of LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) underway. Landing boats in operation.
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