Aircraft Carrier DVDs

Amazon Product Description: "Extreme Engineering unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our time. Some are theoretical; others are in the works. But each of these modern marvels poses challenges that stretch the definition of what's possible. Watch as jaw-dropping computer animation and first-hand accounts from builders, designers and engineers breathe life into the most extreme construction projects ever conceived. Watch as work continues on the $4.5 billion USS George Bush aircraft carrier, midway through its four-year construction at Newport News, Virginia. While huge cranes - each capable of hoisting 900 tons - carefully lift 160 massive sections of the completed flight deck into place with metronomic accuracy, the pressure mounts as workers race to avoid any delays."

Amazon Product Description: "This color video is in three parts and shows various operations aboard the USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67). "A Second Home - USS JOHN F. KENNEDY" is primarily about flight-deck operations on the ship. With a crew of 5,800, including 2,500 members of ship's company, the ship prepares for deployment. Aboard are 80+ aircraft including Tomcats. After leaving port, the ship takes on its aircraft with many flight deck scenes. "Man overboard" drill is held and a helicopter picks up "Oscar" after 7 minutes. The flight deck "ballet" continues with the ship's many 60,000-pound planes. "Home from the Sea - USS JOHN F. KENNEDY" is a 1970 Navy film made by the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group. The ship launches its last aircraft as it heads for its homeport at Norfolk, VA. The pilot comes aboard from a Navy tug. Several Navy tugs assist in docking the ship including the PADUCAH (YTB 758). The ship docks as the crew's dependents and friends wait on the pier. "The Carrier Weather Officer - USS JOHN F. KENNEDY" was made in 1978. It features Lieutenant Commander Fred Harris, the ship's weather officer. His responsibilities are multiple and many are shown including: The Forecast Center which issues two forecasts daily. Briefings for the captain, navigator and air operations officer. Flight crew briefings by the ship's duty forecaster. Debriefing of returning pilots on weather encountered in flight. Hourly weather observations and more detailed observations every six hours. Upper air soundings by radiosonde balloons. Task Force ocean sonar predictions for accompanying sonar-equipped ships How a change in forecast effects all shipboard operations."

Amazon Product Description: "This video documents life aboard USS Roosevelt during the 1940s and 1950s. Excellent scenes below deck, including the engine room, fire room, sick bay, ready room, wardroom and more. Includes outstanding flight deck scenes, as well as aerial views of Roosevelt underway and being replenished. Please Note! This video is not narrated. There are captions and a music soundtrack."

Amazon Product Description: "This video documents day-to-day activities aboard USS Boxer during the 1950s. Includes excellent shots of the carrier, dramatic flight deck activities and scenes of the 1952 fire aboard Boxer. Video also includes good scenes of Boxer operating off the coast of Korea during the war and excellent scenes shot below deck of various compartments. This part of the video is not narrated and includes a music soundtrack. The last part of the video is a narrated Navy film produced in the late 1950s and titled "Vertical Assault" highlighting two helicopters employed by the Marine Corps. Nearly all the scenes were filmed aboard USS Boxer, CV-21/ CVA-21. The choppers were part of Marine Air Group 26. The 8th Provisional Marine Brigade also participates in amphibious landings."

Amazon Product Description: This narrated video documents the history of Essex from the time it was commissioned through her role in the space program in the late 1960s. Includes the carrier's WWII and Korean War battle history, night carrier operations, crash landings on Essex, the carrier's participation with the 7th Fleet in the mid-1950s. Includes her role in Apollo 7, as well as day to day activities aboard the ship.

Amazon Product Description: "CARRIER is a character driven, edge-of-your-seat, nonfiction drama as well as a total immersion in the high stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. CARRIER follows a core group of film participants aboard the USS Nimitz, from the admiral of the strike group to the fighter pilots to the youngest sailors, as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, families, faith, patriotism, love, the rites of passage and the war on terror."

Amazon Product Description: "This video documents activities aboard Enterprise from 1960 through 1970. Includes scenes of the ship's christening in Newport News, Virginia, in 1960, scenes of President John F. Kennedy's visit aboard ship in 1962 and a 1964 newsreel detailing Enterprise's first around-the-world cruise under nuclear power. There is also extensive footage of a King Neptune ceremony and activity aboard Enterprise operating off the coast of Vietnam in the 1960s and documentation of the carrier's participation in anti-submarine warfare hunter-killer operations in the early 1970s. Please note: this video contains both narrated and unnarrated segments. Segments that are unnarrated include a music soundtrack and Armed Forces Radio broadcasts."

Amazon Product Description: "This DVD documents the history of USS Valley Forge from 1949 to 1966. Includes excellent scenes of the ship: aerial views, flight deck action and activities below deck. Good details aboard Valley Forge of shipmates at work and during off hours. Includes excellent scenes of the ship's participation in the Korean and Vietnam Wars."

The Midway matched the Missouri in longevity, achieving a staggering 47 years in service. Launched just too late to fight in WWII, she didn't have to wait long for prolonged battle action, outdoing even many of the WWII veteran carriers in fighting service. She was involved in the air offensive off Vietnam beginning in 1963, accounting for some of the first MiGs downed by the US. She would become a mainstay in the offshore carrier force designated Yankee Station, flying numberless sorties into the heart of the North Vietnamese missile and MiG defenses. Her rescue sorties to snatch away downed flyers were legend. The Midway was a stabilizing force in the seas off Arabia during the many crises in the area. And in the first Gulf War, the old veteran was right in the middle of launching killing sorties into Kuwait. The Midway is still afloat as a battle museum at San Diego, California.

Amazon Product Description: "This video documents activities aboard USS America from 1965-1968. Includes excellent aerial views of the carrier underway in open sea and dramatic flight deck scenes of pilots and crews preparing for and performing duties associated with launches and recoveries. Video also includes commissioning of USS America (CVA-66) Portsmouth, Va. Naval Shipyard, 01/23/1965; Terrier Missile launching from USS America; tests of the auto linding system; Midshipmen performing duties aboard America; refueling at sea and taking on wounded from USS Liberty (AGTR-5); America crewmen receiving citations while the carrier was off the coast of Vietnam; and a visit aboard the carrier by Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay. Please Note! This video has no narration. It has a music soundtrack."