https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ships/uss-yorktown-cv-5.html
While the Battle of Midway often overshadows this pivotal engagement, the Battle of the Coral Sea helped seal the fate of the USS Yorktown and the outcome of Midway. Both she and Lexington served an essential role. Their aircraft located the Japanese vessel Shōhō and promptly sunk the enemy aircraft carrier. The following day, May 8

https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/youve-got-three-days-repairing-the-yorktown-after-coral-sea/
The Battle of the Coral Sea had barely concluded when Task Force 17 under the command of Rear Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher was ordered to return to Pearl Harbor as fast as the crippled Yorktown's condition would allow. Despite hull damage that caused her to trail an oil slick ten miles long, the carrier was able to reach a sustained speed of twenty knots.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/crippled-uss-yorktown-traded-its-life-victory-at-midway/
The USS Yorktown (CV-5) was heavily damaged at the Battle of Coral Sea, but it pushed on to join other Navy forces at the Battle of Midway, where the valiant actions of the crew helped ensure a U.S. victory despite the loss of the ship. The Yorktown was one of America's eight active carriers when the country […]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)
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 class and the smaller purpose-built USS Ranger.

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The USS Yorktown's (CV-5) sacrifice at the Battle of Midway. On May 30, 1942, the USS Yorktown set sail for Midway as the central ship of Task Force 17 (TF 17). A few days later, on the morning of

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/logs/CV/cv5-Midway.html
About 0530 on the morning of June 7 the list of the Yorktown was noticed to be rapidly increasing to port and, at 0701, Yorktown turned over on her port side and sank in about 3000 fathoms of water with all battle flags flying. Her position at the time of sinking was Latitude 30°-46' North, Longitude 167°-24' West.

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/aircraft-carriers/uss-yorktown.html
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was commissioned at Naval Operating Base Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 September 1937, with Captain Ernest D. McWhorter in command. After shakedown training that took the aircraft carrier to the Virgin Islands, Haiti, Guantanamo Bay, and Cristobal in the Panama Canal Zone, she returned to Norfolk for subsequent repairs in the fall of 1938. After operating along the eastern

https://www.nps.gov/articles/uss-yorktown.htm
USS Yorktown Photo by Jim Vickers, courtesy of NPS Southeast Region NHL Photo Contest . Named for the CV-5 aircraft carrier that was sunk during the Battle of Midway, the new USS Yorktownhad a distinguished war record, receiving 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation for its World War II services.During World War II, the USSYorktown fought against the Japanese for more than two years

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2019/december/fighting-survival
From the bruising experience of Coral Sea to her ultimate fate at Midway, the USS Yorktown (CV-5) ... At the Battle of Midway, soon after Japanese dive bombers struck the carrier, a damage control party works to repair a 12-by-12-foot hole created by a 530-pound bomb that exploded on contact with the flight deck, decimating nearby 1.1-inch gun

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
The Japanese assumed that the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown, which been damaged during the Battle of the Coral Sea, would be unavailable at Midway. In fact, the damaged carrier was repaired in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorktown-class_aircraft_carrier
The Yorktown class was a class of three aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy and completed shortly before World War II, the Yorktown (CV-5), Enterprise (CV-6), and Hornet (CV-8).They immediately followed Ranger, the first U.S. aircraft carrier built as such, and benefited in design from experience with Ranger and the earlier Lexington class, which were conversions into carriers

https://www.history.com/news/battle-midway-codebreakers-allies-pacific-theater
A destroyer comes to the aid of the listing aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, which was hit by Japanese bombs and torpedoes during the Battle of Midway. June 1942.

https://www.thoughtco.com/uss-yorktown-cv-5-2361555
Entering the area, Yorktown and Lexington took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 4-8. In the course of the fighting, American aircraft sank the light carrier Shoho and badly damaged the carrier Shokaku. In exchange, Lexington was lost after being hit by a mix of bombs and torpedoes. As Lexington was under attack, Yorktown 's skipper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4-7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/battle-of-midway-story-of-a-yorktown-survivor/
After the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7-8, 1942), in which the Yorktown was heavily engaged and damaged, the carrier returned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for a promised three months in port to make necessary repairs; due to the urgency of the war, the three months was cut to three days. This is Ray Daves's story, as told by Carol Edgemon

https://fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2019/11/05/midway/
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in Dry Dock No. 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway. USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/09/19/explorers-provide-views-of-uss-yorktown-wreckage-from-battle-of-midway/
The USS Yorktown is hit on the port side by a torpedo launched from a plane off the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu during the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. (National Archives and Records

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/june/rescuing-survivors-battle-midway
About 1500, the officers and men of the Yorktown climbed down cargo nets and ropes and slid into the sea, while several destroyers closed in to effect the rescue of some 2,300 men in the water. Life rafts were dropped into the ocean by all the ships in the vicinity. The one damaged lifeboat of the Benham was launched immediately and did

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1963/may/i-sank-yorktown-midway
An odd series of events had put I-168 where she was on 6 June 1942, deep inside the Yorktown's protective circle of American destroyers whose crews were listening for a Japanese submarine.Although I would soon write a last line in that bloody chapter of Japanese history called the Midway Island Battle, the portion I had originally been scheduled to carry was small, indeed.

https://news.usni.org/2023/09/18/new-video-photos-show-details-of-famed-carriers-lost-in-the-battle-of-midway
The island of USS Yorktown (CV-5) Sept. 9 to 10, 2023. ... and two Japanese aircraft carriers IJN Kaga and IJN Akagi sunk during the pivotal World War II Battle of Midway. ... 127 mm twin anti

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This photo provided by Debbie Hodges shows Julian Hodges at his home in Johnson City, Tenn., Dec. 25, 2021. Hodges is believed to be one of the last two men alive of the 4,600 servicemen who between 1937 and 1942 served aboard the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier sunk by a Japanese submarine following the June 1942 Battle of Midway.

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The USS Yorktown was struck and the commander ordered it to be abandoned. Veterans tell their stories of... From the former Greatest Generation Exhibit Theater. The USS Yorktown was struck and the

https://247wallst.com/military/2024/06/20/every-warship-and-submarine-that-fought-the-battle-of-midway/
One of the biggest battles ever fought in the region was the Battle of Midway. ... File:USS Yorktown, 1943 aircraft carrier (17).jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED) by Bubba73. Type: Aircraft carrier;

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwii-shipwrecks-battle-of-midway-japanese-imperial-navy-akagi-kaga-uss-yorktown/
The strong starboard list of USS Yorktown on the seafloor can be seen in the flight deck, also collapsing towards the starboard side at the bow with an anti-aircraft gun tub below. Photo captured

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USS Yorktown battle of midway (CC BY 2.0) by Cassowary Colorizations The recent 82nd anniversary of the Battle of Midway calls back to when the tides turned in the Pacific and Allied Forces were

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After failed attempts to repair the damage, the aircraft carrier sunk into the Pacific Ocean. Photo Credit: Pictures from History / Universal Images Group / Getty Images Aftermath of the Battle of

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Summary and Key Points: The Essex-class aircraft carriers, commissioned during World War II, were pivotal in the U.S. Navy's success in the Pacific.Designed pragmatically to meet the immediate