# YANKEE DO: A STORY OF SEA POWER 1960s NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ENTERPRISE PROMO FILM 21664

Yankee Do: A Story of Sea Power is a 1960s Navy film promoting the new nuclear USS Enterprise and giving viewers a look at life aboard the Navy’s attack carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Most of the film is filmed aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1962 during a cruise to and through the Mediterranean that included NATO exercise assignments, which provides the context for the film’s story: A Scottish NATO Exchange Officer is spending a year with the U.S. 6th Fleet. The film opens with a shot of a harbor (presumably Newport News, VA); a woman launches a houseboat, christening the ship “Yankee Do.” The Scottish pilot and his family are aboard the boat with the American pilot and his family. Women talk while drying dishes inside the kitchenette of the houseboat (03:25). The houseboat passes the USS Enterprise, one the Navy’s first nuclear carrier (04:09). The film shows the various locations on her deck, including the bridges and dome. From up on the tower, the film shows the massive flight deck. The USS Enterprise conducts a catapult test (06:15). The film then cuts to the two men’s time aboard the Roosevelt. A pilot flies what appears to be a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk (06:59). The film shows the Roosevelt carrier from the perspective of an approaching jet and follows through the landing (07:34). All the planes are out on the carrier’s deck (08:26). Jets (likely Skyhawks) take off from the flight deck then return and land. Two Navy ships sail side by side in what appears to…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/21664yankeedovwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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