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Yorktown. (CV-5) 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 ...
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 (CV-5), Enterprise (CV-6), and Hornet (CV-8). They immediately followed Ranger, the first U.S. aircraft carrier built as such, and benefited in design from experience with Ranger and the earlier ...
10 November 1982 [1] Designated NHL. 19 June 1980 [2] 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 ...
CV-4 Ranger: Ranger (lead ship) 4 June 1934 18 October 1946 12 years, 136 days Scrapped in 1947 [18] CV-5 Yorktown: Yorktown (lead ship) 30 September 1937 7 June 1942 4 years, 250 days Sunk in the Battle of Midway in 1942 [19] CV-6 Enterprise: Yorktown: 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 8 years, 281 days Scrapped in 1960 [20] CV-7 Wasp: Wasp (lead ...
USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns after being hit by three Japanese bombs at the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942. (National Archives) The Battle of Midway took place over several days in June 1942 about ...
Coordinates. 32°47′25″N 79°54′30″W / 32.790377°N 79.90821°W / 32.790377; -79.90821. Type. Naval museum. Website. www.patriotspoint.org. Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is a naval museum located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, at the mouth of the Cooper River on the Charleston Harbor, across from Charleston.
Milton Ernest Ricketts (August 5, 1913 – May 8, 1942) was a United States Navy officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his actions in World War II . Ricketts graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and then from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1935 and subsequently served ...
In late April, 1942, just prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea, Flatley was dispatched to USS Yorktown (CV-5) with orders to take command of Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42). However, on arrival, he discovered that his academy classmate, Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Fenton, had already been appointed CO by the ship's captain.