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USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier CV-5 and CV-10 US Navy Ships, Military Model Ship Kits, DVD Movies, Books and Naval Art
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Aircraft Carrier Models, Model Kits, Books, Videos, DVD's, Pictures and Veterans Page, USS Yorktown CV-5 and CV-10 and the Battle of Midway.Model Kits. The USS Yorktown was commissioned in April of 1943 in Newport News Virginia. The USS Yorktown weighed 27,100 tons and is an Essex Class Aircraft Carrier. In August 1943 the USS Yorktown made its first strike against Marcus Island. During the rest of 1943 the Yorktown fought at Wake Island in the Gilberts operation. From January to May of 1977 the Yorktown was one of the Aircraft Carriers that covered the landings on the Marshall Islands and on Western New Guinea generally battering the Japanese forces throughout the Central Pacific. In June of 1944 the USS Yorktown attacked Saipan and Guam as well as hitting the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. For the rest of June and into July the Yorktown fought other targets in the Marianas, the Bonins and Volcano Islands.
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The Fighting Lady
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USS Yorktown CG-48
US Navy Cruiser
USS Yorktown was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the US Navy after its commissioning in July 1984 before being decommissioned in 2004. Perhaps its most famous incident occurred in the Black Sea in February 1988. While claiming the “right of innocent passage” through Soviet territorial waters, USS Yorktown was rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetniy. Some labeled this as “the last incident of the Cold War.” |
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Force 17 Naval Art USS Yorktown Launches at Midway. Marii Chernev. Wildcat fighters provide Combat Air Patrol while the doomed USS Yorktown (CV-5) launches her strike group - a Dauntless is seen lifting off the flight deck - against the Japanese Fleet off Midway Island on June 4, 1942. 27"x 22" limited edition print is signed and numbered by the artist. |
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CV-5 Naval Art Print Mark Churms. USS Yorktown (CV-5) lies quietly anchored at Tongatabu Harbor in the South Pacific in April, 1942, a mere two months before she would meet her end at the Battle of Midway. 17"x 10" limited edition print is signed and numbered by the artist. |
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Battlefield:
The Battle of Midway - National
Geographic's The Battle for Midway (1998) One thousand miles from anywhere lies a lonely outpost of coral
and sea called Midway. It was here in 1942 where the U.S. and Japan
fought one of the greatest naval battles of World War II that changed the
course of history. And it is here again where Titanic discoverer Dr. Robert
Ballard now leads a team of experts and four World War II veterans on the
voyage of their lives. They're on a race against time to do the impossible:
find at least one of the five downed aircraft carriers, including U.S.S.
Yorktown, more than three miles underwater. Hear the heart-wrenching
stories of four remarkable men and how each survived the war despite incredible
odds. And join them as they pay their final respects to their fallen comrades
in THE BATTLE FOR MIDWAY.
U.S. Navy carrier action in World War II. The "Fighting Lady," or USS Yorktown (CV-10) commissioned in 1943, fought in the battles of the Gilbert Islands, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and others "The Battle of Midway was the most important battle of the War in the Pacific during World War II. By any ordinary standard, the U.S. Navy was hopelessly outclassed. They had no battleships, the enemy eleven. They had eight cruisers, the enemy twenty three. They had two working cruisers, the enemy had eight...and they actually knew very little of war. They were up against the finest fighting plane in the world: The Japanese Zero-yet somehow they prevailed? The Battle of Midway, DVD. The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942. On June 4-6, 1942, a large Japanese force attempted to capture Midway Island in the North Pacific, but was defeated by U.S. forces with a loss ratio of 4:1 in favor of the Americans. On hand was a crew of naval photographers directed by John Ford; their documentary footage was edited together with narration by Hollywood actors. The film covers the attack on Midway, some limited aerial footage, the search for survivors, and aftermath of the battle. Midway InquestWhy the Japanese Lost the Battle of Midway
Yorktown (CV-10) earned 11 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation during World War II and five battle stars for Vietnam service. the USS Yorktown (CV-5) - which launched the planes that sank four Japanese carriers in the Battle of Midway before being sunk herself USS Yorktown (CV-5) lies quietly anchored at Tongatabu Harbor in the South Pacific in April, 1942, a mere two months before she would meet her end at the Battle of MidwayThe first Essex-class aircraft carrier to see combat in World War II, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) is the oldest Naval aircraft carrier afloat today For most of the rest of 1944 the Yorktown underwent an overhaul then rejoined the fleet in November of 1944. She then participated in attacks on Japanese positions in the Philippines, Formosa, Indochina and then on the Chinese Coast until January of 1945. In February and March the USS Yorktown supported the landings on Iwo Jima then conducted air strikes against the Japanese homeland. In March of 1944 she was struck by an enemy bomb but was able to remain in the action. From late March to June of 1945 the Yorktown took part in the Okinawa Campaign. on April 7th, 1945 her planes helped sink the Japanese Battleship Yamato and some of her escorts. For the rest of World War 2, the Yorktown mostly made raids on the Japanese Homeland. In January of 1947 the USS Yorktown was decommissioned. In 1951 the USS Yorktown began a major modernization and overhaul. She was then redesignated the CVA-10 and reentered active duty in February of 1953. In August the Yorktown departed for the Far East to join the Seventh Fleet and in the early part of 1955 she supported the Tachin Islands evacuation. Later in 1955 the Yorktown was again overhauled and modernized adding an angled flight deck and an enclosed bow. After two more West Pac tours, the USS Yorktown was again redesignated the CVS-10 as an antisubmarine support aircraft carrier. From the mid part of 1960 the Yorktown was used for support for the Viet Nam War. In 1968 she played a major role in the motion picture "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and was a part of the Apollo 8 space flight recovery. The Yorktown was decommissioned in June of 1970 and in 1975 she was moved to Charleston, South Carolina as a museum that you can visit today. Click Here to see the USS Yorktown CV-5 1937-1942. Click Here to see a list of Aviation and Space Museums. The Name carries on the first Yorktown was a sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840. She was used in curtailing the slave trade off of Africa. She sunk in September 1850 after hitting an uncharted reef off of Cape Verde Island. The second Yorktown was a steel hulled gunboat commissioned in 1889. She was decommissioned in 1921. The Third USS Yorktown was the CV-5 which was commissioned in 1937 and sunk in the Battle of Midway on June 4th of 1942. The fifth USS Yorktown was the CV-10 Commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1970. The USS Yorktown (CG 48), is named after the decisive battle of the American revolutionary war, and is the fifth ship to be so named. The following books, aircraft carrier models, DVD movies, videos, and pictures tell the whole story of the Yorktown and the Battle of Midway. CV-10 was an Essex class ship started with the name Bon Homme Richard, but was renamed Yorktown before building was completed to honor CV-5 lost a few months before at the Battle of Midway. Commissioned 13, April 1943, the carrier Yorktown was 890 feet long and 196 feet wide. CV-10, designed to carry 90 planes into battle. The Yorktown saw her first action in World War two by attacking the Japanese base on Marcos Island in the Pacific. She was the first of the brand new Essex class to see combat. The ship and her crew stared in the 1944 war documentary The Fighting Lady, which became the ship's knick-name, and won an Academy Award. The ship was evolved in many of the major Pacific battles from 1943 thru 1945 when the war ended. Yorktown's planes inflicted heavy losses on the enemy at Truk Islands and in the Marianas; the carrier supported American troops in the Philippines, at Iwo Jima, and at Okinawa. Yorktown received 11 battle stars for her World War II service and was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. In 1953, She was reclassified as an Attack Carrier, CVA-10. In 1955, the ship was again reclassified, but this time as an anti-submarine carrier, CVS-10. From 1965 to 1966, the USS Yorktown was again in combat into the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam. In 1969, the Yorktown returned home for the last time. She was decommissioned that year. However, in 1970, the ship was towed to Charleston South Carolina and became the first ship that was part of the Patriot's Point Naval and Maritime Museum. Grumman F6F Hellcats, Curtiss SB2C Hell- divers, Douglas SBD-3 Dauntlesses and Grumman TBF/TBM Avengers. |
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