# U.S. Carrier Fights for Life

This short newsreel, produced for the home market, shows the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) under attack by Japanese Zeros during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Although the carrier was badly damaged in the battle, it lived to sail another day and proved crucial to the U.S. victory at Midway a few months later.

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1942
- Runtime: 4 min
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/UsCarrierFightForLife)
- 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)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/UsCarrierFightForLife?play=1)