| Caption | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) steaming across San Francisco Bay with a deck load of Jeeps, Dodge WC51 weapons carriers, and other vehicles, 15 Sep 1943. ww2dbase | ||||||||||
| Photographer | Charles Kerlee | ||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | ||||||||||
| Identification Code | 80-G-471045 | ||||||||||
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| Photo Size | 2,207 x 2,274 pixels | ||||||||||
| Photos on Same Day | 15 Sep 1943 | ||||||||||
| Photos at Same Place | San Francisco Bay, California, United States | ||||||||||
| Added By | David Stubblebine | ||||||||||
| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."Winston Churchill, on the RAF
15 Sep 2020 10:05:42 PM
Essex (CV-9) had arrived at Pearl Harbor on May 31 1943, Yorktown (CV-10) had arrived July 24, both for the first time coming out of shakedown to active duty. They both did some training and then took part in a raid on Marcus (strikes on August 31), arriving back at Pearl on September 7. Beginning September 9, they made an unescorted, high speed run (22 to 25 knots) back to San Francisco, arriving there September 13, where they became AKs, loading the flight decks completely as pictured (Yorktown had 250 trucks on deck). They left San Francisco September 15 (showing 23 knots with flight deck inoperable and again completely unescorted until within about 100 miles of Hawaii), arriving back at Pearl on September 19. Hard to fathom that these 2, the largest and most capable carriers in the fleet, would be used in this way, but that was the logistics situation in mid-1943.