EARLY 1950s KOREAN WAR HOME MOVIES AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ANTIETAM TASK FORCE 77 32734
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- This early 1950s color and black and white mixed reel of home movies capture activities of the United States Navy aboard the USS Antietam (CV/CVA/CVS-36), an Essex-class aircraft carrier which served during the Korean War (TRT: 26:18).
Homemade opening titles: “USS Antietam in Korea Presents” (0:10). A Sikorsky H-5 or HO3S helicopter (UP-28) lifts off from the carrier’s flight deck. Flight crews assemble around Grumman F9F Panther jet fighter planes. Elevators lift two aircraft from hangars to the flight deck (0:21). A yellow tug moves a F9F Panther (408). A wide shot shows Antietam's conning tower. Pan to reveal the Sikorsky helicopter at rest. Airmen gather, preparing for flight (1:17). Four fighter planes fly in formation. A grey tug moves a propeller-driven Douglas A-1 Skyraider (2:05). A Skyraider taxis, with wings folded. A Sikorsky helicopter approaches (2:30). A Panther makes a landing, a wire catching its tail hook. A craft with a damaged rudder is examined (2:49). Two planes in flight at a distance. Another panther lands. The conning tower in closeup. A man speaks on a radio (3:22). A fighter plane takes off using a catapult. Skyraiders taxi. A passing destroyer (4:01). Skyraider landings. A radar antennae rotates near the topmast platform, a tug in closeup and from across the deck (5:10). Anti-aircraft guns and canons. A naval pilot poses and walks toward the camera. Aircraft assemble (6:07). A Skyraider and pilots elevator down to a hangar from the flight deck. Helicopters. A passing Battleship (6:48). Planes flying in formation. A sunset landing. A Skyraider’s nose tips forward (7:13). Black and white footage begins (7:50). A Vought F4U Corsair makes a crash landing, smashing a wing into the carrier in slow motion. Another crash landing from a head-on angle and the resulting wreckage. The pilot emerges as a crowd gathers (8:11). Another calamitous landing shows a fighter plane veering off the flight deck and into the ocean. Pilots line the deck (9:03). Airmen race to meet a helicopter in slow motion. They return, carrying a pilot on a stretcher (9:53). Another crash landing into the water below. The steaming plane sinks. A medical airlift via helicopter (10:34). A perfect landing by a F9F Panther. Panthers assemble en masse. Hazy skies and an extended, slow motion landing montage (11:32). A closeup view of a landing reveals a F4U Corsair’s tailhook catching the Antietam’s wire. The plane, marked VF-837 flies for the “Black Knights.” (16:31). An extended slow motion sequence of Panther tailhooks follows (16:56). An undercranked fast-motion closeup on a Sikorsky H-5 and surrounding pilots at work as they transport a Panther, making way for another to take its place via elevator (25:35).
The Antietam was commissioned in early 1945, was recommissioned for the Korean War in 1951 and earned two battle stars during the conflict (1950-1953), with Captain George J. Dufek in command. She deployed for combat in four cruises with Task Force 77 (TF 77) off the coast of the Korean peninsula, returning in between assignments to Yokosuka, Japan. The craft was fitted with a port sponson in 1952, which made it the world’s first angled-deck aircraft carrier.
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My dad was on the Antietam in 1951. My mom still has his cruise book. He was a gunners mate and loaded bombs on the elevator to go up to the planes.
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So was my dad… 50-52
My dad, a marine was somewhere on the Antietam at this time. This is interesting to me for that reason. Very doubtful but always hopeful to catch a moment to see him.
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Love those Grumman F9F Panthers!
My Dad was also on the Antietam 1951/1952.. was in supply assigned to the Denver Navy Reserve unit that was flying F4U-4 Corsairs ..
My dad, as well spent time on the Antietam and I have his memorabilia.
Thank you for sharing. Dad was with VF-111 two tours to WESPAC in Korea on other CVs. Good video of the F9's on deck.
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The first time I saw the Blue Angels, they were flying the Cougar version of the F9F but the original will always be a design fave.
Woah that one guy who had his stabilizer fin shot clean off 😦
These are home movies so they were shot at 16-18 frames per second for silent film.
It looks like you telecined it at the standard sound 24 FPS.
So a lot seems sped up.
You should consider correcting the error as it is quite good footage!
So...good comment but you are off base. If you watch the frame counter on this film, you will see that we transferred the footage at the normal silent speed of 18 frames per second -- not 24 as you surmise. The reason sections of the film seem sped up is that portions were shot at non-standard speeds, possibly even as slow as 12 fps. However for various technical reasons mostly having to do with broadcast standards, we only make transfers at either 24 or 18 frames per second.
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Dad was on the Antietam 59-62
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My Dad was 0n it also. His job was training cooks.
Amazing how they could perform such a short landing. Btw does anyone know if the poor guy that went off the side made it out ok? Yikes
Love it
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Reminds me of the movie the bridge over toko-ri