Product Details

• Actors: John B. Kennedy, Frank Lepore, G.P. Abbott, Leslie Gehres, F.W. Masters
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Bennett Media Corpor
• VHS Release Date: May 11, 1990
• Run Time: 8 minutes
• ASIN: 6302138388
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,815 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

First time available on video as originally produced by NBC Television. Hosted by Gene Kelly, this is the powerful story of the most decorated ship and crew in United States naval history.

Here is the battle-scarred story of the U.S.S. Franklin, "Big Ben," and the men who brought her home.

Fighting her way to Iwo, the Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, Formosa and the Japanese mainland, the U.S.S. Franklin took the kamikaze onslaught and in turn she bloodied the enemy; 160 ships, 338 aircraft downed, 3,971 sorties flown--this was an aircraft carrier savaged.

Against all odds she limped her way across the Pacific, the Panama Canal and made the port of New York as the most heavily damaged ship ever to make home port under her own power.

The U.S.S. Franklin ... a special definition of courage out of the hell of battle.