Flight Deck Crews: Landing Re Spotting World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Planes

Major air battles in the Pacific often turned on the ability of each side to quickly launch, land, rearm, refuel, and then relaunch aircraft. These unique films offer a rare look (in color) at how US Navy carrier flight deck crews were trained to quickly land, park, fuel rearm incoming and relaunch aircraft. As a bonus, you ll see GM FM1 Wildcats and Grumman TBF Avengers up close, handled expertly on the tiny deck of a CVE jeep escort carrier(This film had severe color shifts, so I digitally restored the Durng the battle of Midway, when American dive bombers caught the Japanese carriers Akagi and Kaga with decks full of refueling and rearming planes, the resulting catastrophe for the IJN was a turning point in World War II.