The Fighting Lady | Real Combat Footage | Upscaled WW2 Video | USS Yorktown CV-10

The Fighting Lady: The Lady and the Sea. the USS Yorktown CV-10 Aircraft Carrier.
A military documentary told from the point of view of the crew of the aircraft carrier.

"Fighting Lady" remains, along with William Wyler's "Memphis Belle" and John Huston's "Battle of San Pietro", one of the finest documentaries produced during World War II. Although released by 20th Century Fox with a Hollywood soundtrack and narration by movie star Robert Taylor, the film itself includes no actors, special effects, or "CGI". All the footage was filmed as it happened by Navy personnel, often under very dangerous circumstances.

Here's the Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature of 1944, about the U. S. S. Yorktown, its crew, and its involvement in a running battle around Guam. Or, as Robert Taylor calls it in the narration, "a two-week turkey shoot." I wonder what Boyer called it in his French-language narration.

It's one of four Oscar wins for co-director William Wyler. Also credited as a director is Edward Steichen. He was mostly a photographer, in charge of that department at Conde Nast in the early 1930s, and at the Museum of Modern Art from 1947 through 1962. During the World Wars, he was in charge of aerial photography for the A. E. F. And the Navy. Robert Fritch may be credited with the editing, but surely it's Steichen who made the choice of shots and left it to Wyler to figure out the rest of it. The movie includes some amazing battle shots, including the aerial fights through yellow skies, the ones of crew members trying to relax between battles, and the ones of wrecked planes landing on the Yorktown.

Scenes highlight the functions and duties of The Fighting Lady and crew activities, and maps illustrate the movement of the Pacific fleet and its engagement with the Japanese in 1943 and 1944. Footage shows the following: A-24 Dauntlesses, TBF Avengers, Hellcats, and other aircraft as they flew out to the carrier, and August 30, 1943, strafing and bombing mission over Japanese-held Marcus Island -- from preparation on the carrier to debriefing. Later scenes cover 1944 when the U.S. forces took Kwajalein Island, the Marshall Islands, the Truk Islands, and the Caroline Islands through air assaults and troop landings. Mitsubishi Zero-Sens (Zekes) engaged the U.S. Navy assault force and the ship squadron returned to the Marshall Islands for repairs, munitions, and rest and recreation. En route to the battle area, the Fighting Lady encountered and downed a Japanese reconnaissance plane. On the eve of battle, sailors attended church services. Prior to the U.S. assault, the Japanese attacked the U.S. squadron and U.S. planes took off for the Marianas and the Guam Islands where they successfully fought at the Tinian and Mariana Islands. The Japanese and U.S. task forces then fought in the Philippine Sea, where planes engaged in dogfights while ships performed evasive maneuvers.

USS Yorktown CV-10 General characteristics as built
Class and type: Essex-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 27,100 long tons (27,500 t) (standard)
36,380 long tons (36,960 t) (full load)
Length: 820 feet (249.9 m) (wl) 872 feet (265.8 m) (o/a)
Beam: 93 ft (28.3 m)
Draft: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m)
Installed power: 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers 150,000 shp (110,000 kW)
Propulsion: 4 × geared steam turbines, 4 × screw propellers
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range: 14,100 nmi (26,100 km; 16,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 2,600 officers and enlisted men
Armament: 12 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns
32 × 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
46 × 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns
Armor: Waterline belt: 2.5–4 in (64–102 mm)
Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm)
Hangar deck: 2.5 in (64 mm)
Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm)
Aircraft carried:
36 × Grumman F4F Wildcat
36 × Douglas SBD Dauntless
18 × Grumman TBF Avenger

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