The Yorktown class was a class of three aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy and completed shortly before World War II, the Yorktown, Enterprise, and Hornet. They immediately followed Ra
USS Enterprise
Enterprise and Hornet underway in May 1942
Enterprise laid up in 1958
Yorktown class carrier technical drawing 1953
USS Hornet (CV-8)
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USS Hornet, the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier. Commissioned a month before the Pearl Harbor attack, the ship spent three months working up in the waters
Yorktown-class aircraft carrier
…class of three aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy and completed shortly before World War II, the Yorktown (CV-5), Enterprise (CV-6), and Hornet (CV-8). They immediately followed Ranger, the first U.S. aircraft carrier built as such. As Ranger was not commissioned until two weeks after Yorktown was…
USS Hornet (CV-8) shortly after completion
Hornet cruising off Hampton Roads in October 1941
A B-25 taking off from Hornet
Lt. Colonel James Doolittle and Captain Marc Mitscher on board USS Hornet in April 1942