In the latter campaign, during the Battle of Santa Cruz (25-28 Oct 1942), Enterprise's aircraft damaged the carrier Zuiho while Hornet's aircraft damaged carrier Shokaku and cruiser Chikuma. While her aircraft delivered their deadly cargo on the Japanese fleet, she was struck by a Japanese ...
Yorktown was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers, sponsored by the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She spent much of her pre-WW2 years along the east coast of the United States, in the Caribbean Sea, and once visited the Panama Canal. During this time, she underwent repairs in...
Ordnancemen working in USS Yorktown's hangar deck amidst F6F-3 Hellcat fighters, circa Oct-Dec 1943 TBF Avenger torpedo bomber prepared to take off of USS Yorktown, late 1943 USS Yorktown (Essex-class) as seen from the fantail of Light Cruiser USS Mobile, during the October 1943 raid on...
the second USS Yorktown a gunboat, the third USS Yorktown a hero and casualty of the Battle of Midway, the fourth USS Yorktown, a carrier that fought in the World War Two, Korea, Vietnam and the fifth USS Yorktown, an Aegis Class Cruiser, today on patrol of the world's sea lanes...
Yorktown arrived after Yamato was already badly damaged but they still claimed several torpedo hits on the battleship just before she exploded and sank. They also had bomb hits on light cruiser Yahagi before she also sank. After that engagement, Yorktown resumed support of the troops on ...