USS Yorktown (CV-10)
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USS Yorktown is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under
USS Yorktown at sea in the Pacific, 1963
Commissioning of USS Yorktown on 15 April 1943
Yorktown with planes of Carrier Air Group 1
Yorktown during the air operations in the Pacific
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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USS Yorktown was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the 1781 Battle of Yorktown, she was commissioned in 1937. Yorktown was the lead ship of the
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
…Navy. Initially to have been named Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, after the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), which was sunk at the Battle of Midway. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, though the previous ships were named for the 1781 Battle…
Yorktown in July 1937
Eleanor Roosevelt christens Yorktown (4 April 1936)
Yorktown prepares to get under way from NAS San Diego (June 1940)
Yorktown is refueled by USS Brazos mid-Pacific (July 1940)