Sky Fleet 1934 - U.S. Navy Airships, Robot Battleships, Aircraft Carriers & More in Action

This newsreel was produced to show the American people their modernized U.S. Navy in action, including Pacific Fleet maneuvers and the latest innovations on the sea and in the air. It's composed of diverse footage from the early 1930s edited together into a dramatic narrative. You'll see a wide variety of navy biplane aircraft launched from flight decks, catapulted float planes and land based heavyweights taking off to perform their assigned missions with exciting "from the cockpit" footage. The battleship Utah was converted into an unmanned remote controlled "robot" for target practice. The iconic aircraft carrier U.S. Lexington (CV-2) is featured at length. Huge rigid airships like the Macon were used for long range reconnaissance. This is a unique window back in time to seldom seen scenes from the 1930s biplane navy era.
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I love watching this old news clips and instructional videos.

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Excellent footage of the USS Lexington (Lady Lex), the aircraft carrier sunk in the Battle of the Carrol Sea, the first naval battle in history where only carriers were involved. The battle was a draw, but the US Navy stopped the Japanese advance to Australia, and set the stage for the Battle of Midway just a month or so later. Many of the professional Navy pilots who most likely took place in these war games were leaders of the many pilots in the first months of the war (Thatch was one, who developed the Thatch weave, a tactical move used extensively)