CARRIER OPERATIONS AT SEA 1944 ESSEX CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIER TBM AVENGER HELLCAT HELLDIVER 21704

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This black & white film "Carrier Operations at Sea" details the life of the crew aboard a fleet aircraft carrier operating in the Pacific during WWII in 1944. Includes footage of aircraft operations including Grumman TBM Avengers, Curtiss Helldivers and Hellcats, maintenance, take-offs and landings, and the mundane side of crew life. For whatever reason the aircraft carrier shown in the film has its identifying number painted over. It appears to be an Essex-class fleet carrier, possibly one on a shakedown or training cruise.
Opening titles: U.S. Navy Presentation - Carrier Operations At Sea (:06). Flight deck on a Essex class carrier (:15). Planes including Hellcats parked (:37). .50 caliber ammunition belts (:41). Moving bombs by elevator (:58). Men carry shells for the fighter's wing guns (1:24). Ordnance men (1:44). Carrier at sea (1:53). Ship's navigation staff on bridge (2:04). Pilots sit and listen in ready room (2:17). Sailors and pilots get ready (2:33). Pilots enter their cockpits (3:00). Pilot signs check sheet (3:21). Carrier turns into the wind to launch aircraft (3:40). On the flight bridge (4:00). Plane propellers start (4:05). F4U Corsair plane's folding wings extend (4:32). Engines start for the planes (4:57). Plane captain instructs planes and they start to take off (5:03). Avengers take off (5:45). Down to the hanger deck where aircraft are stored (6:28). Planes are maintained (6:48). Work done down below deck (7:05). Relaxation on the ship (7:41). Inside the cruise quarters (7:58). Cooking in the kitchen (8:21). Men eat (8:44). Church (8:55). Weather measurements (9:10) by launching a weather balloon. Anti-aircraft drill, as guns fire (9:38). Watching our planes return to the ship with binoculars (10:10). Ship turns into the wind (10:38). Landing signal officer uses flags (10:56). Navy Avenger Planes land on a carrier (11:13). Landing signal officer makes a lot of motions and waves off a plane from landing (12:30). Planes in the sky (12:49). Carrier at sea (13:11). End credits (13:19).
Details the life of the crew aboard a fleet aircraft carrier operating in the Pacific during WWII in 1944. Includes footage of aircraft operations including Grumman TBM Avengers and Hellcats, maintenance, take-offs and landings, and the mundane side of crew life.
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[@matthewlawrence9894]

These videos help me visualize part of my father's life, before I was born. During the time of the making of this movie, he was becoming a naval aviator. In 1945, he transferred to a squadron that was back from the Pacific theater, being rebuilt. They transitioned from F6F Hellcats to F4U Corsairs, trained and trained with the squadron' veterans and requalified for carriers in the new planes. They were somewhere in the Western Pacific, positioned for the invasion of Japan when President Truman decisively ended the war. My mother never questioned Truman's decision.

[@guillaumepare9651]

F6f to Corsair, Poor him. 😒

[@Treecko-rw1gp]

​@@guillaumepare9651 Not exactly a downgrade but I see where ur coming from

[@jtm726]

Thank you for providing us these videos, they educate us on what these brave men did during the war.

[@raybin6873]

Gives a little bit on cultural values too! My father served in the Navy in WW2. He said what kept him fighting was democracy and freedom. 🇺🇸

[@davidvaninwagen9391]

My grandfather was flying his avenger in the pacific theater about the time this was filmed. When I find films like this I kind of hope for the remote chance that I might get to see him in action.

[@Johnnycdrums]

By the time this was filmed, we were the best in the world at this.

[@raybin6873]

Great video! In darn good condition considering it's age! 🇺🇲

[@raybin6873]

@Cloud Burst 117 Amen to that!

[@joserdiazalmodovar1898]

Brave way more than brave¡ Those Are my Heroes the real ones .People who Fought for Peace and Democracy .🙏🙏👍👍

[@aaronjohn6586]

Just another awesome video, thanks!

[@cyclingnerddelux698]

They were young once, so very young.

[@martinbachmann6283]

@Cloud Burst 117 Cloud Burst, absolutely true! Nations (who MUST find it necessary to go to war) throughout the world ought to make a rule: ONLY individuals 65+ years of age can go into combat. And yeah- I'd be qualified under that notion; just hope they'd at least let me come back at my former rank - Petty Officer 3rd! Where I live, we have an AWESOME VA health-clinic that has taken VERY good care of me these past 16 years or so. Since I've been going there for so long, I'm actually pretty good friends with some of the medical-staff, + when I have to go up there, I actually enjoy visiting with them as well? Only thing I hate about it is when I see some of these young (20s-30s, some younger) folks arriving with appointments because of combat wounds, etc. Such a TOTAL waste of young life; we (this country/culture) need to PROTECT our younger people as a whole, MUCH better!

[@wernerbloemwagen6878]

What a GLORIOUS time!

[@whipple1062]

The Hellcat pilot at time 4:53 (and shown twice more, a few seconds later) is (then) LCDR Geo. C. Bullard, USN. He was the father of my closest buddy as a young boy. Then LCDR Bullard, Naval Academy class of 1938, was Butch O'Hare's executive officer in VF-6 before being shot down at Truk. After the war , he went on to be the CO of USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA 31) and a 2-star admiral. Sadly, he died of a heart attack in 1966, while serving as Commander, Carrier Division 18 out of Quonset Point, RI, flying his flag in USS ESSEX (CVS-9), the ship my father had commanded 3 years previously. UPDATE: Since I wrote the above, I sent this to both of his sons, both former naval officers. And one responded with "...if that isn't dad, then he had a twin brother he never told us about..." So that nails it for me...what a remarkable coincidence that I should see this. God Bless 'em all...

[@mjproebstle]

superb video! thank you!

[@TheHandymanQld]

Helldiver taking off, turns into an Avenger when it leaves the deck ... sneaky.

[@kevinballenger1211]

I Served 4 Years Aboard The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) As An ABH3 In Air Dept/V-1 Div From 1980 - 1984. Although We Were A Nuclear Carrier, Flight Ops Really Haven't Changed Much! ⚓

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thanks for your service to our great nation. And thanks for your comment.

[@allgood6760]

Brave souls!

[@paulsuprono7225]

And WHO shall be the last soul . . . alive from the WW2 era ? Any live veterans would be in their 90's now ! 🇺🇸

[@martinbachmann6283]

Great video - very high film quality compared to most, plus well produced. Ah yes! The REAL Navy back in da day; chiefs could wear dungarees with their chief's hats, and even officers with miniature rank insignia on chambray-shirt collar lapels, could (sometimes) wear dungarees too! VERY cool indeed!

[@douglasdaniel4504]

"Accidents are almost unknown." Umm....almost....

[@jonahtaivalkoski322]

One might say common sense

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

"Huge nest" perhaps but the ocean is vast.

[@paulsuprono7225]

Restricted = Classified . . . even 70+ years later, remains unknown !

[@kevinvanderpoole293]

I just want to know how popular that guy practicing his french horn was with his all of his sleeping bunkmates???

[@martinbachmann6283]

AhHAHAHAHAHA! I was wondering the very same Kevin!

[@tim9s]

Two ads a minute and forty five seconds in.

[@Andrew-13579]

I know these movies have to infuse a lot of drama and excitement to attract the overstimulated videogame/cellphone kids of today, but there’s a certain way to do it. This one was for kids and non-aviators. The second aircraft that crashes into the water. Right before it does, you can see that the flaps are not down but the ailerons are over-extended downward on both sides. No no! They don’t work that way. The movie people got that really wrong. Take a look at this film from 1944 to get a very good idea of how it was really done… kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHqViH-Ii92MkK8si=EFvFt1YA1R_za0rt