Hit The Deck: Aircraft Carrier Crashes

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Aircraft Aviation Carrier Corsair Crashes Navy Airplanes World War II
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This video contains one hour of the most dramatic carrier landing accidents ever recorded. Film footage from the 1940s to the 1960s of planes ripping into and exploding on the flight deck; dramatic rescues of pilots; planes ramming the island.

Featuring the USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Princeton (CV-37), USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60), USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91), USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) and USS Essex (CV-9).

Also includes C-130 aborted and successful landings on USS Forrestal (CVA-59).

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