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USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she was commissioned in 1937. Yorktown was the lead ship of the Yorktown class , which was designed on the basis of lessons learned from operations with the converted battlecruisers of the Lexington ...
The crew’s equipment took about 43 hours to survey the three historic wrecks, according to Wagner. USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns after being hit by three Japanese bombs at the Battle of Midway, 4 ...
USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) 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 construction, after the Yorktown -class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) , which was sunk at the Battle of Midway .
Battle of Midway, June 1942: USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on 7 June 1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer. The ship has capsized to port, exposing the turn of her starboard bilge, with a large torpedo hole amidships severing the forward bilge keel. Yorktown's forefoot is at the extreme right.
USS Utah (AG-16) was hit by two torpedoes dropped from B5N "Kate" bombers at the onset of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She immediately began listing and capsized within ten minutes. Fifty-eight men were lost on Utah during the attack. Attempts to salvage the old ship were abandoned and today her wreck lies in Pearl Harbor as a war memorial.
World War II: Operation Mo: The Mutsuki-class destroyer was torpedoed in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands by aircraft from USS Yorktown ( United States Navy). Twelve of her 154 crew were killed, and 22 were wounded. Kikuzuki was beached on Florida Island to avoid sinking, but slid off the beach during the next high tide on 5 May and sank.
She was anchored at Purvis Bay, Florida Island when the Tulagi invasion fleet was attacked by aircraft of the United States Navy's aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, with Azumasan Maru being damaged in the attack. [3] Azumasan Maru left Rabaul in a convoy to resupply Guadalcanal. Disembarkation began near Bunani Point [4] on 15 October.
Alerted by intercepted and decrypted Japanese naval messages, the Americans dispatched the carriers USS Yorktown and Lexington to stop the operation. On the same day as the carrier's initial attack, the US planes located the light carrier Shōhō, which Lexington ' s aircraft crippled before Yorktown ' s aircraft finished her