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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.
The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier. Because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as "the Fighting Lady", although she was later identified as USS Yorktown (CV-10).
It was soon followed by the other pre-World War II classes: the Lexington class; USS Ranger, the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; theYorktown class, and USS Wasp. [2] As World War II loomed, two more classes of carriers were commissioned under President Franklin Roosevelt: the Essex class, which is informally divided into regular bow and ...
Yorktown: CV-5 Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News: 21 May 1934 4 April 1936 30 September 1937 — Sunk by submarine following the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942 Enterprise: CV-6 16 July 1934 3 October 1936 12 May 1938 17 February 1947 Struck 2 October 1956, Broken up at Kearny, New Jersey, 1958 Hornet: CV-8 25 September 1939
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.
He commanded the carrier USS Suwannee in the Atlantic Ocean and off the coast of North Africa, until he was ordered to take command of the newly commissioned USS Yorktown (CV-10). [b] During Clark's command, Yorktown became the setting for the documentary The Fighting Lady, which detailed World War II aircraft carrier operations. In the ...
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) underway, circa in mid-1943, possibly during her shakedown cruise in the late spring. Planes on deck include Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighters and Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver dive bombers. Note this carrier's unique longitudinal black flight deck stripe and the absence of any hull numbers ...
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 ...