Saw this video posted over on the Forumini, and thought I would share it here. It is an hour-long period piece about the 2nd USS Yorktown and her first actions in the Pacific. What makes this piece particluarly interesting is that it is in color, and offers a lot of gun camera footage. At one point, you actually see a pilot pull out of a strafing run below the tops of the palm trees near the runway he is attacking! Also of interest is the footage of and “undisclosed location” that is pretty clearly Ulithi. Check it out:
As a side note, I apologize for the lack of updates recently; I’m getting ready to move (again), and that has taken up a lot of my time lately. I’ll try to get a few more in before the move actually happens, though.