USS YORKTOWN IN COMBAT  PART THREE 
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Launching aircraft off the USS Yorktown in the Sea of Japan 29 Nov. 1953

USS Yorktown in Tokyo Bay.  Mt. Fujiyama in background.  Photo by Billy South

Lt. jg Red Voltz, the senior LSO brings in a VB SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber onto the Yorktown after a bombing run on shipping in Truk Harbor

Badly shot up by flak in a strike on Palau on 30 Mar 44, Ensign Bob Black of VF 5 is unhurt and climbs out from his F6F Hellcat.  Broken into pieces after ramming a 5 inch gun upon landing.

Funeral and burial at sea taking place on the wooden flight deck of the USS Yorktown.  Chaplain bob Alexander and VF1 bury Lt. M.M. "Mad Dog" Tomme.  After landing, a plane behind Tomme ignored his wave off and crashed on top of Tomme.

Four Bell Helicopters piloted by HS 4 on the USS Yorktown.  This picture was the cover shot for Approach Magazine in April 1964

World Trade Center in the background as the USS Yorktown passes New York City in 1975 on her way to Charleston South Carolina to become a museum

USS Yorktown planes as US Marines invade Iwo Jima

 



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