1944: 1 year on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) in color video

This one hour color fIlm about was between 1943 and 1944destined for the American population but also sailors fighting on the front.

It is 1 year on Board of American aircraft carrier CV-10 (class USS Yorktown)), be it in the moments of simple life as in combat...

Referred to as "The fighting Lady" (the fighting woman) by its Director the Lt. Robert TaylorThis documentary film received theAcademy Award for best film-documentary ! A very good way to aprehender what was the life of Americans engaged in the peaceful sailors during the Second World War...

While the first part of the documentary focuses in the waiting and life on board when the aircraft is not in battle, the second Treaty of moments of action, starting with the attack of the Marcus Island in 1943, then in early 1944 the attack on Kwajalein, followed by the Truk raid (in the Caroline Islands) and finally the famous shooting of the Mariana Islands... 

All that color!