Yorktown (Yorktown-class) Photographs

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Fleet oiler USS Brazos refueling USS Yorktown in the Pacific Ocean, Jul 1940	TBD-1 Devastator showing damage to fuselage after a landing accident on Yorktown, 3 Sep 1940

US Navy pilot C.M. O'Brien's TBD-1 Devastator aircraft crashed into Yorktown's starboard catwalk in a landing accident, 3 Sep 1940	Lieutenant Commander Bill Burch and Ensign Thomas Reeves flying USS Yorktown-based SBD dive bombers over Makin, Gilbert Islands, 1 Feb 1942

SBD Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Yorktown, Apr 1942	Two SBD-3 Dauntless dive bombers of Scouting Squadron 5 flying by USS Yorktown (Yorktown-class) in the Coral Sea, Apr 1942. Note F4F-3 Wildcats of Fighting Squadron 42 and red & white rudder stripes in use only 4 months

USS Yorktown seen from a TBD-1 aircraft, Pacific Ocean, Apr 1942; note F4F-3 Wildcat fighter preparing for takeoff, and fleet oiler USS Guadaloupe, a destroyer, and a cruiser just beyond	View of USS Yorktown's island from the bow, Coral Sea area, Apr 1942

USS Neosho refueled carrier Yorktown, 1 May 1942	A bomb hole on Yorktown's flight deck, viewed from underneath, 8 May 1942

A hole created by a bomb exploding beneath decks in Yorktown between compartments C-301-L and C-402-A, 8 May 1942	Lexington during Battle of Coral Sea as seen from Yorktown, early morning of 8 May 1942

Mushroom cloud rose above USS Lexington after an explosion, 8 May 1942; carrier Yorktown on horizon and destroyer Hammann to the left of photograph	Yorktown arrived at Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Coral Sea, 27 May 1942, with her crew paraded in whites on the flight deck

Yorktown in Dry Dock #1 of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942	A Japanese Type 97 torpedo aircraft (upper right) approached Yorktown during the mid-afternoon torpedo attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, 4 Jun 1942

A Japanese Type 97 torpedo bomber flew near a 20mm gun of Yorktown, mid-afternoon of 4 Jun 1942	A Type 99 dive bomber attacked Yorktown, seen from cruiser Astoria, 4 Jun 1942

Bomb fragment damage in Yorktown's hangar, 4 Jun 1942	Catwalk on the port side of Yorktown bent as a result of torpedo damage, 4 Jun 1942