"Full-of-fight feature!
The Marianas!
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Gunnery Practice cover your ears! Launching of the planes. "The fighters take off first to give cover aloft." Watch the entire movie IN COLOR
Bombing "In a vertical dive the pilot may black out but his nose camera doesn't black out..." Truk traps "Returning to the deck at 130 mph with the flaps shot away, all a pilot can do is hope to save his own skin." Emily Splash "oh oh, our search planes have discovered an enemy search plane..." Jill Splash Jap plane alone in the sky, Yorktown guns flashing, then Yorktown with plane on fire. Watch the entire movie IN COLOR scroll down for more movie clips
Turkeyshoot "Now our fighters run into a swarm of jap fighters."
Jap Fleet USS Yorktown pilots finally find the Jap Imperial Fleet Watch the entire movie IN COLOR
Salute "Salute them because they were brave..."
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Made at the height of World War II and considered one of the best documentaries of that time, this film records the life of the aircraft carrier Yorktown from her launching in 1943 through her victorious sweep across the Pacific--including unsurpassed color footage of a suicide attack by Kamikaze pilots. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary as well as a Special Documentary Award from the New York Film Critics. USA, 1944, Color, 57 minutes.
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Special thanks to Stephanie for taking the movie "The Fighting Lady" and spending hours of her time cutting up the movie into segments for us and the rest of the world to view. As thanks, Stephanie asks that we donate money to her favorite charity the Komen Foundation. Go to this website hikeforthecure.com (or contact for details.)