USS Coral Sea Tribute Site Video

Assorted Video Clips of the USS Coral Sea

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	Here is home video shot in 1964 during Carrier Qualifications prior to the Coral Sea's first Vietnam WestPac. Flight Deck scenes, Flight Operations and UNREP footage. Film is approximately 8 minutes long. There is NO sound. Film courtesy of Kathy Gendreau, from the home movie collection of her late grandfather, R.J. Schirkofsky. Originally filmed in 8mm. Kathy did all the editing and conversions for the web video. We all owe her a big thank you for her initiative and hard work to donate this to the site. Click Here
	Home video shot in 1982 during San Francisco Fleet Week. Several shots of fleet ships moving around SanFrancisco Bay inclusing the USS Coral Sea. This was shot by Charlie Walker on board the USS Fletcher DD-992. Film is approximately 6 minutes long. There is NO sound. Film courtesy of Charlie Walker. Originally filmed in 8mm. Charlie did all the editing and conversions for the web video. We all owe him a big thank you for his initiative and hard work to donate this to the site. Click Here
	Another video from Charlie Walker. The footage was shot from the USS Blue by Earl Faubion during the 1969-70 WestPac. Charlie did the editing and formating for the web video. Many thanks to Charlie and Earl helping out the USS Coral Sea Tribute Site. Film is approximately 3 minutes long Click Here
	A short clip from a movie in 1982. There is about one minute of footage at normal speed, followed by about four minutes of the same clip in slow motion. Click Here
	A short PLAT video from 1966 of an A-3 going over the bow after a cold cat shot. Many thanks to Gary Schreffler for donating this to the site. Read a detailed account of this mishap here. Click Here
	1963 - This one is of an F-8 Photo Crusader, VFP-63 PP-928, that loses control systems going down the catapult. Watch closely at the end, you can see the pilot eject just as the plane rolls inverted. Another Coral Sea PLAT video from Gary Schreffler. Read accounts of this mishap here. Click Here
	Mishap on CAT-3, an F-4B of VF-151 is pulled down the deck by its mangled nose gear after a miscue. Look closly at the nose gear and you can see it collapse and then get tangled in the bridal/shuttle pulling the Phantom into the sea. Another Coral Sea PLAT video from Gary Schreffler. Read accounts of this mishap here. Click Here
	1963 - While performing an airshow off the coast of Sydney, Australia, an A-3 Whale nose gear collapses on a routine trap. They go around and come in for a barricade landing. I got this from British Pathe News Archives. This is the free version so it has their watermark on the video. Click Here
	1963? - Video of families greeting sailors just after the ship arrives home from a Westpac. Sound track is fubared. I got this from British Pathe News Archives. This is the free version so it has their watermark on the video. Click Here
	1952 - Brief clip about Yugoslavia President Marshall Josip Tito visiting the ship. I got this from British Pathe News Archives. This is the free version so it has their watermark on the video. Click Here
	1986 - USS Coral Sea music video - God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood: I'm Proud To Be An American. Many thanks to David Timmons. Click Here
	1986 - Local news station report on USS Coral Sea homecoming. Many thanks to David Timmons. Click Here

1986 - Two fantastic movies filmed and edited by David Huber, one of our shipmates.

Video 1- Coverage of attack on Libya which was in retalliation for the Labelle Disco bombing in Germany in 1986. Included is news coverage with the late Peter Jennings, footage of the USS Coral Sea bomb assembly team and other ordies stenciling and transporting the bombs, News coverage from Navy News, and a speech to the nation by Ronald Reagan. A syslfrog production.

2008 - USS Coral Sea Slide Show set to music by Pascal "Frenchy"

1988-89 - Footage from the flight deck of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Also some footage from the V-1 Division (flight deck crew) berthing area. This footage was filmed by Paul Carrizales during a work-up cruise off the east coast of the US sometime around late 1988 or early 1989.

Worth noting that the jets in these videos are the F-14 Tomcats (VF-101 Grim Reapers). F-14's never deployed aboard the Midway Class carriers due to the smaller flight and Hanger decks. Also, I believe the JBD's were not large enough or strong enough for an F-14 to launch in afterburner which is required for a max weight launch.

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