USS Yorktown (CV-10)

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Cmdr James Flatley with CAG 5 pilots aboard USS Yorktown 1943

Cmdr James Flatley with CAG 5 pilots aboard USS Yorktown 1943

LCT loaded with ammo alongside USS Yorktown 1945

LCT loaded with ammo alongside USS Yorktown 1945

The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10, April 1943

The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10, Newport News 15 April 1943

Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) 1943

USS Yorktown 1943

USS Yorktown (CV-10) 2

USS Yorktown 2

USS Yorktown (CV-10) 28 May 1944

USS Yorktown 28 May 1944

USS Yorktown at anchor with other carriers of U.S. 3rd Fleet, 1945

USS Yorktown at anchor with other carriers of U.S. 3rd Fleet, 1945

USS Yorktown at Majuro Atoll

USS Yorktown at Majuro Atoll 5 June 1944

USS Yorktown at NAS Alameda September 1943

USS Yorktown at NAS Alameda September 1943

USS Yorktown CV-10 anchored

USS Yorktown CV-10 anchored

USS Yorktown CV-10 hit by Kamikaze, March 1945

USS Yorktown CV-10 hit by Kamikaze, March 1945

USS Yorktown CV-10 in camouflage 1944

USS Yorktown CV-10 in camouflage 1944

USS Yorktown (CV/CVS-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Carrier was laid down on 1 December 1941 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard, renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942 to commemorate Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway. The new Yorktown was launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, and commissioned on 15 April 1943 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Captain Joseph J. Clark in command.