US Marine and Navy 3rd Fleet Aircraft Carrier Planes Strike Formosa Accidents Crashes

WW2 footage of US Marines flying F4U Corsairs along with Navy aircraft from Vice Admiral John S. McCain’s Fast Carrier Task Force of the Third Fleet striking Japanese airfields on the island of Formosa (Taiwan). Not much footage of the raid, but quite a few takeoff and landing accidents by the airplanes are shown. According to the narrator, this footage is from January 3-4, 1945. (Clipped from Combat Bulletin No. 41) You can see more aircraft carrier flight deck operations in first 8 minutes of this vid
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