WW2 CARRIER FOOTAGE

YOUTUBE ^ | July 4, 2010 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Color footage of carrier action in the Pacific. Thie is my daddy's generation in action, just a bunch of kids then. One of my uncles was flying off a carriers, he flew Corsairs.

[magslinger]

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[Shady]

Thanks, I have seen all of this footage before, but still. Brave soldiers of LIBERTY!
Words fail me about today.

[Parley Baer]

Thank You for the posting. Reminds me of my days on the USS Enterprise CVAN65 and VF-96.

[magslinger]

The thanks belong to SWAMPSNIPER. He actually posted it.

[PatriotCJC]

Thank You!

Former US Navy SWO

[FlyVet]

One of my Uncles, now gone, spent the war on USS Enterprise CV6, most decorated ship of WWII. Grandma had to sign a waiver for him, he was only 17. Survived it. Gawd, imagine the adrenaline rush as the Nipponese bored in on them. Imagine knowing, as a wet-eared teenager, an entire superpower is chasing after you, because you're the only seaworthy US carrier on the water, at times?

A most famous pic, The Kamikaze hit they took 14 May 1945.

That "thing" hundreds of feet in the air, with a smoke plume behind it, is the rear aircraft elevator that brought the planes up from below deck. It weighed tens of tons. Damn. Damn. Damn. How did they stay upright?

Uncle wrote that "we survived because our Skipper was "Trigger Happy", in reference to the USS Vincennes Incident.

[Gay State Conservative]

About the only words Brokaw ever uttered that were worthy of my respect and support were the phrase he coined...”The Greatest Generation”.And WWII wasn’t the *only* thing that they did that earned them that title.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

if you have more footage send it to me please

[hennie pennie]

Hello, swampsniper.

Freeper Sonofstrangelove is VERY impressed and he posted:

>>>> "if you have more footage send it to me please" <<<<

:)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Someone just sent me the link today. I wish I had more.

[alfa6]

A few Whistling Death pics for you

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[bert]

That is great footage.

I watched the first two episodes of THE PACIFIC HBO series this evening. It is very good

[hennie pennie]

See post no.12

[DWar]

My dad also served on the Big ‘E’. Transfered to her from the Lexington before Pearl. Had he stayed on the Lex he’d have gone down with his 3 best friends when she was sunk. As it was he became priviledged to fight in more battles than any other WWII fighting ship. He served in the most dangerous job, on the flight deck flagging aircraft. Was part of the fire crew that fought that elevator blaze you mentioned. God bless my dad, JVW, gone since 1994.

[FlyVet]

Had to search for this, but remembered it from my love of reading the war stories as a kid, 40 years ago. Can't remember what I did five seconds ago, but I sure remember this:

"An officer on board Yorktown said, 'There she goes. She didn't turn over. She is going down with her head up. Dear old Lex. A lady to the last.' "

Dear Old Lex. A Lady to the Last. God bless the Great Men.

[American Constitutionalist]

The modern liberal history revisionist and the Holocaust deniers want us to believe that this never really happen...

[Vanders9]

I’ve always thought those things look really cool.