1951 - Flight Ops - [7:41] - Nice video showing launch and recovery of F2-H Banshee's aboard USS Coaral Sea CVB-43 in March 1951. (No Sound)

1952 - President Tito - [0:25] - 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.

1954 - Flight Ops - [8:23] - USS Coral Sea is visited by Prince Albert of Belgium. Great flight ops footage of all the different plane types - 1954. (No Sound)

1955 Feb. 14 - Marine Fury - [10:13] - Marine Fury landing and takeoff practice on the USS Coral Sea CVA-43.

1955 - [11:10] - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 operating in the Mediterranean and visiting France.

1960 - Vancouver Lions Gate Bridge - [0:49] - Fresh out of the yards after her angle deck conversion, USS Coral Sea passes under the Lions Gate Bridge - Vancouver. Over 15,000 Vancouverites went aboard the aircraft carrier during one afternoon of the ship's visit to Vancouver. Thousands more had to be turned away.

1963 - A3 Barricade [1:17] - 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. This is from British Pathe News Archives. This is the free version so it has their watermark on the video.

1963 - F-8 Mishap - [0:40] - 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 a detailed account of this mishap here.

1963 - Air Operations - [3:56] - USS Coral Sea 1963 Air Operations. Great footage on the flight deck. Someone's 8mm home movie.

1963 - Homecoming - [0:57] - 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.

1964 - CarQual's - [7:46] - Home video shot in 1964 during CarQual's prior to the Coral Sea's first Vietnam WestPac. Flight Deck scenes, Flight Operations and UNREP footage. Film is approximately 8 minutes long. Film courtesy of Kathy Gendreau, from the home movie collection of her late grandfather, R.J. Schirkofsky. Kathy did all the editing and conversions of the 8mm film for the web video. Many thanks to Kathy.

1965 - Flight Ops - [11:43] - Flight ops scenes - February 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - Flight Ops/Engine Room - [12:55] - Flight ops and scenes in engine room May 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - UNREP/Flight Ops - [8:57] - UNREP & Flight Ops scenes - May 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - Flight Ops - [2:50] - A few minutes of flight ops aboard USS Coral Sea CVA-43 operating in the South China Sea - May 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - UNREP/Flight Ops - [12:23] - UNREP & Flight Ops scenes - May 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - Flight Ops - [7:58] - Some great footage of flight ops as taken from a helicopter near USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - May 1965. (No Sound)

1965 - Flight Ops - [11:42] - This video focuses on ordnance men loading a 250lb Bullpup bomb on an A-4. Plus some footage of flight ops. USS Coral Sea CVA-43 - July 1965. (No Sound)

1966 - A-3 Mishap - [0:18] - A short PLAT video from 1966 of an A-3 going over the bow after a catapult malfunction. Many thanks to Gary Schreffler for donating this to the site.

Read a detailed account of this mishap here.

1967 - Flight Ops - [11:02] - Nice video showing Vietnam Era flight ops aboard USS Coaral Sea CVB-43 January 1967. (No Sound)

1967 - Flight Ops - [11:02] - USS Coral Sea CVA-43 combat flight ops off the coast of Vietnam - 12/2/67. (No Sound)

January 18th, 1968 - Bob Hope - [1:42] - Short clip of Bob Hope aboard USS Coral Sea.

1968 - F-111B Carrier Trials - [15:00] - Great footage aboard USS Coral Sea during the summer of 1968 when the Navy conducted carrier trials for the F-111B. (No Sound)

Read more about the F-111B trials here.

1968 - Departing for Westpac - [4:32] - Pier side with sailors and families as USS Coral Sea gets ready to depart for Westpac on 9/7/1968. (No Sound)

1969 - Underway - [3:14] - 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 formatting for the web video. Many thanks to Charlie and Earl helping out the USS Coral Sea Tribute Site.

1969 - San Fracisco - [3:30] - USS Coral Sea returning home after her 68-69 Westpac. Footage aboard the ship as she enters San Francisco Bay.

1970 - F-4 Mishap - [0:56] - Mishap on CAT-3, an F-4B of VF-151 is pulled down the deck by its mangled nose gear after a miscue. Look closely at the nose gear and you can see it collapse and then get tangled in the bridal/shuttle pulling the Phantom into the sea.

Read a detailed account of this mishap here.

1970 - Shellback Ceremony aboard USS Coral Sea - [2:31] - Shellback initiation on board the USS Coral Sea.

1972 - Bomb loading / USO - [7:19] - Footage of planes being prepared for strike on Vietnam. Some USO footage on flight deck. 4/26/1972. (No Sound)