ww2dbaseYorktown 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 rep...
Visible are 7 large carriers, 3 light carriers, 3 battleships, and numerous cruisers, destroyers, and support vessels including 1 hospital ship. Five-Inch High-Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVAR) on an Essex-class aircraft carrier’s bomb elevator, probably the USS Yorktown, ready for being ...
In terms of passive defense the Shokaku class carriers were better equipped than the Yorktown class carriers. The maximum value of Zuikaku’s belt armor was about 6.5in whereas the Enterprise had a maximum of 4 inch. The same for the deck armor with a maximum of 2.6 inches vs. 1.5...
ww2dbaseOn 1 Dec 1941, six days before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the fourth and fifth of the new, large Essex-class aircraft carriers to be laid down were both laid down at Newport News, Virginia, United States. The contracts called for the ships to be named Bon Homme Richard and In...