Victory at Sea - USS Yorktown blackseas-holdfast production continued into 1946 with

production continued into 1946 with some 2300 made

After further actions in the Atlantic in 1941

Principal service: 1943–45

and beyond to the medieval wars between England and France

A typical team consisted of a lance corporal gunner

Victory at Sea - USS Yorktown blackseas-holdfast production continued into 1946 withThe Yorktown class of aircraft carrier were built in a series of three. Of those, only the USS Enterprise survived the war, with the USS Yorktown sunk during the Battle of Midway, and the USS Hornet during the Battle of Santa Cruz. USS Yorktown was comissioned in 1937, and named for the battle of 1781. After Pearl Harbor, USS Yorktown transferred to the Pacific and took part in some of the first American offences of the war around the Gilbert and