Task Force (film) footage documenting the rise of naval aviation as well as Technicolor footage filmed during the war in the Pacific, including the Battle of Midway, the Japanese attack on and a kamikaze attack on USS "Franklin". Encouraged by the offer of support from the U.S. Navy, when the production received permission to proceed with a film, a decision was made to shoot the first segments in black-and-white to merge into the original footage of the , the first American aircraft carrier, and . Principal photography began in late 1948 on the escort carrier, to replicate USS "Langley", as well as Naval
Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II was also sunk by a single torpedo, from the submarine . The next day, the Japanese carrier force was subjected to an American carrier air attack, and suffered the loss of the carrier "Hiyō". The four Japanese air strikes involved 373 carrier aircraft, of which 130 returned to the carriers. Many of these survivors were subsequently lost when "Taihō" and "Shōkaku" were sunk by American submarine attacks. After the second day of the battle, losses totaled three carriers, with more than 433 carrier aircraft and around 200 land-based aircraft. Although, the defeat at the Philippine Sea was severe in terms