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Get out of the way of the "Fighting Lady" 472 enemy planes shot down; 199 ships sunk, 1,886 planes damaged, 329 enemy ships damaged, WWII, bombing the heart of Tokyo and numerous other targets, Sinking the largest Battleship ever built, For every Yorktown plane lost there were 11.5 enemy planes lost or damaged; Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War on Worldwide Communism; Recovering the First Astronauts to Travel to the Moon; South America Cruise, North Atlantic NATO cruise, Hollywood movies and television appearances; America's Grey Diplomat for over 200,000 sea miles; UNCLE SAM GOT HIS MONEY'S WORTH WITH THE SHIP AND CREW OF THE USS YORKTOWN!

141 men died on the USS Yorktown Ghost Hunters investigate the many stories of ghost sightings, shadows and noises and concludes the USS Yorktown is haunted

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WORLD WAR TWO
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	Kamikaze attacks on the USS Yorktown and US Navy "Victory at Sea-'Suicide to Glory'" "Duel between gunners who want to live...and pilots who want to die" 20 minute click here
	The USS Yorktown attacked by Kamikaze suicide pilots click here
	USS Yorktown pilots help sink the largest battleship ever built click here
	Eyewitness to the greatest naval battle of World War Two, the Battle of Midway Click here

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Click here UFO sighted from USS Yorktown, USS Yorktown under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, the time the USS Yorktown almost ran into North Vietnam

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Cruise Book USS Yorktown 1968-1969, Apollo 8 pick up, Get Smart TV show, Tora! Tora! Tora! filming, going around the Horn of South America click here

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From the men who served on the USS Yorktown 1943 to 1970...
"The service, sacrifice and protection provided by the crew of the USS Yorktown is our gift to all Americans."

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OVER THE SIDE, sea stories and US Navy photographs from USS Yorktown Aviation Photographers Mate Richard Wells. It makes a great gift for Dad or Grandpa if he was a military photographer! Click here

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al US Navy Photograph by Photographers Mate Chief Petty Officer Alfred Cooperman, the USS Yorktown under attack and crew shoots down a torpedo bomber, put on the cover of Life Magazine. Picture autographed by "Jocko" Clark, the Yorktown's first skipper:
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"Aircraft Carriers" See and hear USS Yorktown crewmen speak of the heroism aboard the USS Yorktown in combat

Using a wealth of archival footage, much of it in color, THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER goes into battle and below decks with the Essex carriers, including the USS Yorktown, showing what it was like to serve aboard these floating cities during the greatest conflict in mankind's history.

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	Click here US Navy Photographers combat Part I
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	Click here *"Victory At Sea*"~see movie combat movie footage by Photographers Mate Corey and other US Navy Photographers "Done in the Face of Grave Danger."
	US Navy Photographers Mates record the US Navy in combat in the 21st Century click here

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"Its a wonderful thing to learn that no one else counted. The Yorktown won the whole war by itself."

Yorktown Captain Cooper Bright~~
"You know, you've completely got the picture."


	More Combat Pictures by US Navy Photographer's Mates: USS Yorktown with New York's World Trade Center in the background; Spectacular action pictures by US Navy Photographers Mates of the USS Yorktown in combat, shooting down Japanese planes, sinking Japanese ships, the USS Yorktown is hit, listing and burning and US Navy sailors are killed; Warning; actual US Navy-at-sea salty language used here Click here

	Spectacular Pictures by Photographers Mates and the press of US Navy in 2003 War in Iraq, USS Kitty Hawk, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Constellation, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Kearsarge, USS Comfort, USS Enterprise, USS Harry S Truman, click here
	Spectacular photographs by Photographers Mates and the press of US Navy flight operations Gulf War, The War in the Middle East 2001 from the USS Carl Vinson, USS Kitty Hawk, USS Enterprise, USS Chester Nimitz making sharp turns, USS Peleliu, Letter from the Captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the combat zone, air strike by pilots of the USS John Stennis; Click here

The USS Yorktown TODAY! Pictures of the USS Yorktown, on her last cruise and See the Yorktown TODAY , in action, at work and at final port call; Click here to see the series
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Photographer Mates; If you like these pictures, thank a US Navy Photographer, see some spectacular pictures made by US Navy Photographers Click here
In his own words-Photographer's Mate Roy, "I filmed the battle of Midway" click here
Official US Navy Photographs of the Korean War Era

"Telling the Sailor's Story"
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World War Two

	Click here Lands on USS Yorktown nearly dead, sailor sent to save him nearly "passes out""

	Click here The bomb that hit the USS Yorktown was "50 feet from me" and was "my first close call."

	Click here "*They wiped the blood off me and sent me back up against the Japs."* Yorktown aviator talks about fierce battles in the Pacific.
	Click here US Marine gunner on USS Yorktown kills Jap airman as he parachutes into the Pacific after bailing out of his plane. *"He would have died anyway. We wouldn't have rescued him."*

	Click here "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill Japs" screamed the billboard put up by Admiral Halsey. The flag staff on the USS Yorktown write a disrespectful poem about this legendary sea dog.
	Click here The Story of the USS Yorktown and the US Navy In Action during World War Two in the Pacific *through the eyes of "Willie"* a USS Yorktown sailor Attack on the Japanese "Pearl Harbor", Truk; Collision of the USS Washington; attack on the USS Franklin and USS Bunker Hill; watching the glow from the Kamikaze fiery attack on the USS Randolph and waiting for the sound wave to hit the USS Yorktown; attack on the USS Essex and USS Langley; USS South Dakota shoots down the threats to the USS Yorktown; friendly fire brings down an identified aircraft; the Black Sheep Squadron? US Marines off course land on the USS Yorktown; "The Lucky Y", USS Yorktown is finally hit; Willie witnesses the kamikaze plane and pilot that just kept on coming; USS Hornet CVG 17 and USS Bon Homme Richard CV 31 at fleet anchorage and underway; USS Wasp gunners take down a kamikaze pilot and plane; typhoons hit USS Hornet and USS Yorktown; Operation Magic Carpet**; going home on a Troop Transport Click here
	Faulty Engine. . . Heavy Fog. . . Gas Low. . . Gyro Out—But, “Mission Accomplished!” Click here

	Click here Scrappy the dog and "No Name" dog were the pets of the crew of the USS Yorktown as the ship fought through the Pacific War.

	Click here The "Fighting Lady" also known as the "The Lucky Y" suffers her first and only bomb hit by enemy action. 23 Yorktown sailors injured and five of them die.

	Click here The order to the Yorktown "Turn on the Lights!", at night in combat, was the gutsiest order in the US Navy since Admiral Farragut's order "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!"

	Click here two Distinguished Flying Crosses, eight air medals, a presidential unit citation with five stars. Torpedo Man remembers when JJ Clark risked it all by turning on the lights on the night flight deck to save stranded US Navy pilots

	Click here The US Navy gives birth to Flying Squadron Three and its first skipper LCDR Fritz Wolf, become an Ace while assigned to the USS Yorktown
	Click here First time a new sailor looked at the USS Yorktown in dry dock he was convinced she was "too heavy to float!"

	Click here Some of the Medals worn on the chest of USS Yorktown veterans

	Click here the Yorktown's Flying Circus, shooting down 50 Japanese planes without getting one bullet hole in their own; Eugene Valencia was the leader of the Yorktown Flying Circus awarded the Navy Cross for his leadership and shooting down 23 Japanese planes; the Yorktown was home to the most successful fighter division (4 planes) in the history of the US Navy,
	"USS Yorktown Kicked Ass to Tokyo", banner "still waves";

	Click here Lt. Condit of the USS Yorktown, bombs Marcus, is shot down, is a prisoner of war and is picked to witness the surrender of the Japanese on the USS Missouri

	Click here Yorktown Aviator "My Experience as Prisoner of War by the Imperial Japanese. *They killed us by inches."*

	Click here The First USS Yorktown Flying Ace tells how he earned the Navy Cross, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, eight air medals, a presidential unit citation with five stars. HIS CROSS TO BEAR: ROBERT DUNCAN OF MARION RECEIVES LONG-OVERDUE NAVY CROSS FOR HIS PART IN WORLD WAR II

	Click here VF-88, pilot from the USS Yorktown fight in the last dogfight of the war, four of our pilots killed
	Click here After the war, the USS Yorktown drops anchor in Tokyo Bay and sees hundreds of two man Jap submarines under construction. A prank played on General MacArthur by the Yorktown crew but Yorktown sailors are loyal even when faced with an order from a five star general. Yorktown sailor lies to the Captain after the culprits he is protecting already confessed.

	Click here USS Yorktown's raid on Wake Island prompted Japanese Commander to murder American Prisoners of War

Click here A Yorktown crewmember remembers what it was like to have the Japanese try to kill you hours after the war was "over."

	Click here Richard Taylor Eastman was 'a pilot's pilot, a man's man, a loyal, true friend'

	Click here Knowlton Stuart, Japanese pilot flew so close to the Yorktown, readying to drop a one-ton bomb on his ship, that he could see the torpedo just above his head.

	Click here Ed Sarkisian USMC, Marine Detachment on the Yorktown. Teaches a Yorktown sailor bugle calls and watches him die the same day; Marine wounded in battle on the Yorktown but goes back to his station too weak to stand,

	Click here USS Yorktown Marine Detachment, the first US troops to "invade" Japan, Japanese troops surrender their arms to Yorktown Marines, Yorktown pilot welcomes US Army to Japan

	Click here Jack Williams; life of a dive bomber pilot on the Yorktown CV 10 in World War Two;

	Click here USS YORKTOWN SINKS JAPANESE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Largest Battleship in Naval History, suicide mission by Japanese Navy, 5,000 Japanese sailors killed


	Click here USS Yorktown flying Ace Herbert Hauck, leader of attack of Japanese Battleship Yamato, dies at age 86 and is honored in the New York Times in March 2002

	Click here CHARLES G. FRIES, JR. ARM2/C TBM APRIL 1945 flying off the Yorktown to sink a Japanese Battleship, the largest battleship ever built


	Click here What was it like to be on the Yorktown gun crew shooting down Japanese Kamikaze planes

	Click here "The Lucky Y" The USS Yorktown and her pilots were "lucky." Why did the two Japanese planes that were in line to kill the Yorktown not release their torpedoes? How could a pilot fly 120 back to the Yorktown as he was slowly bleeding to death?

	Click here Kamikaze Training Manual Read what the pilots who aimed at the Yorktown with the intent to sink her and kill us and our shipmates were thinking in the last few seconds of their lives;

	Click here for the Story of the Downed Yorktown Pilot, thanks his rescuers 52 years later, disobeys Landing Signal Officer to save the lives of the gun crew;

	Click here From the flight deck of the Yorktown to a crash into enemy territory "I was alone in enemy territory"

	Click here Newly minted Ensign hits the waves just as he sights the Yorktown;

	Click here "The Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you ..." that your son and Yorktown aviator has been killed in action

	Click here USS Yorktown turned into the USS Franklin for one day; what is it like to watch 700 fellow sailors die? See what the Kamikaze pilot was carrying/see what is left of his plane after hitting the USS Franklin

	Click here Joseph Cox, joined the Navy at 17, a plane pusher, ammo loader on the USS Yorktown, 100,00 sea miles of "Hit and Run" against Imperial Japan *"I’d see 100 planes in a day, coming at us from all directions."*

	Click here Award Winning Yorktown Photographers Mate Jeff Corey becomes Hollywood Actor survives Japanese Kamikaze attacks on the Yorktown and the Red Scare Black List after the war

	Click here Yorktown pilot Bayers awarded the Navy Cross for ignoring his own safety to protect his ship and shipmates, Commanding Officer of the Fighting 3 A on CV10 was first former enlisted man to take command of a squadron; from enlisted seaman to Captain;
	Click here Yorktown Photographer's Mate, almost swept into the sea by typhoon, watches the Yorktown bent in the middle by the gigantic waves

	Click here The USS Yorktown *"has taken lives and has saved lives"*. Read about how the Yorktown and crew saved Japanese lives after the end of World War Two and rescued British subjects in 1960.

	Click here In Hong Kong Mary Soo and her workers paint the USS Yorktown. How are they paid? They get to take the Yorktown's garbage. Capt. Bennett writes about the poverty of Hong Kong in 1968.

	Click here The Best Landing Safety Officer in the US Navy served the aviators of the USS Yorktown

	Click here "Snipes!" "The Black Gang" The boiler tenders and machinist mates. When a jap torpedo had their name on it, they never even knew it. The Yorktown "went all the way to the Moon" *and full speed ahead*, because of the boys down in the hole

	Click here The USS Yorktown most famous for her service in the Pacific, but also she saw some "action" in the Atlantic as a target for a Nazi German submarine;

	Click here Yorktown plane crashes into mast of USS New Orleans, spraying aviation fuel and killing one crewmember;

	Click here USS Yorktown transports thousands of US Marine and US Army fighters back to the USA after the end of World War Two; Yorktown becomes a "Magic Carpet"

	Click here While the US Navy fought the Japanese in the Pacific, the US Army Air Corps fought the Nazis over Europe. In a dive, pilot Evans in his Texas drawl says *"A've got it."*
	click here Can you actually face it? The REAL speech that General Patton gave to his troops, not the clean-up version from the movie.

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Korean War and Cold War

	Click here RICHARD G. WELLS, Aerial Photographer's Mate USS Yorktown~~~The Crash of the Skyraider #124071;
	MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF "THE FIGHTING LADY" 1 April 1953;
	LIVING ON THE EDGE; the Flight Deck of the USS Yorktown; CRASH INTO SEA OF JAPAN BREAKS YORKTOWN PILOTS BACK BUT HE LIVES BECAUSE HE TOOK A CHANCE;
	YORKTOWN Visiting Hong Kong in 1953 Mary Soo the Sidecleaner gets the Yorktown spaghetti garbage; sailors on liberty in Hong Kong get spaghetti;
	Yorktown Sailor is tempted and falls in Hong Kong; repents. Tempted and falls again in Japan, etc.

	Click here Too Fast to Stop, Too Slow to Fly, Yorktown plane's crashes from flight deck into the North China Sea off of Korea
	Click here Steering the USS Yorktown with no training and no instruction. Something you'll never forget

	Click here Yorktown Korean War veteran " it was impossible not to believe that Someone was watching over us." Pictures from the 1954-55 cruisebook; the largest cake ever made on a ship to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the recommissioning of the USS Yorktown

	Click here The Yorktown "does her part" in the Cold War against Communist China in the mid 1950's "all missions were logged as combat missions" The open secret? The pilots were from the Soviet Union.

	Click here Rough justice on the USS Yorktown. Cut into the chow line and get three days in the brig on bread and water...instantly and automatically.
	Click here Yorktown PhotoMate gets threatened to be thrown overboard for taking flash pictures during plane crash.
	Click here Yorktown PhotoMate gets into trouble when his Chief gets transferred to the USS Yorktown and before the PhotoMate gets to the Yorktown. 3rd Class Petty Officer "promoted" to Admiral!
	Click here Yorktown cumshaw at work! Photo mates trade pictures of the ship for chocolate and make chocolate milk and fudge in the Photo Lab.

Vietnam War and Cold War

	Click here for the inside story of Capt. Bennett and the role the Yorktown played after the USS Pueblo was captured by the communist North Koreans; Read the orders from the Pentagon, "Attack Anything Communist", See the extremely rare photo of Soviet Bear bomber flying over Yorktown with Yorktown A4 jet poised to shoot the Russian out of the sky;

	Click here UFO sighted by look-outs on USS Yorktown in the Gulf of Tonkin, USS Yorktown under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, listening to a US Navy pilot get shot down and die, the night the USS Yorktown almost ran into North Vietnam, the American news media got it wrong during the Vietnam War too.

	Click here Actress-singer Ann-Margaret shows her support for the marines and sailors of the USS Yorktown

	Click here Yorktown boatswain mate Jimmy Vine has his leg broken during underway replenishment, two other sailors almost swept overboard;

	Click here Yorktown Aviator's "Brush" with death, tin can sailors saved him;
	Click here Trapping (landing) on an aircraft carrier at night for the first time. Your asshole will pucker just like the pilot's when you read this.

	Click here 25 and Alive, spelled out on the flight deck with sailors. Photo by Milt Putnam, PH2

	Click here Helicopter operations off the coast of Viet Nam 1965; underway replenishment

	Click here Capt. Bennett sends a Family Gram to Yorktown sailor's wives, Moms and Dads. He talks about a Yorktown pilot saving an Air Force pilot, newsmen from around the world on the Yorktown and the Yorktown flight deck spell out "25 and Alive."

	Click here The USS Yorktown's last visit to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, what serving on the United States Ship Yorktown means to one sailor Daniel A. Bernath
	click here The strange people who served aboard the USS Yorktown. Adolf Hitler on the USS Yorktown?

	Click here USS Yorktown is first US Navy floating TV station during the Vietnam War and floating radio station during the Korean War, Bob Wallace was one of the disc jockies, USO Entertainers on Yorktown, Yorktown Helo Squadron Commander becomes the President's advisor, Yorktown "newscaster" Daniel A. Bernath becomes NYC and LA newscaster and who owned the sword that cut all those ceremonial cakes on the Yorktown?

	Click here Mid Air Collision Kills Yorktown Aviator; Son finds eyewitnesses 33 years later through www.YorktownSailor.com

	Click here Living and working on Yankee Station, off the coast of North Vietnam for a crewman of the USS Yorktown

	Click here Part of Yorktown's job while on Yankee Station off the coast of North Vietnam, Search and Rescue and Surveillance, Yorktown aviators killed in action, bodies never found

	Click here The Yorktown participates in the atomic bomb testing at Christmas Island in Operation Dominic; dangers to the Yorktown crew at sea and back in port in Japan, President Kennedy calls the Admiral on the Yorktown

	Click here The Adventures of a USS Yorktown Cop. What it was like to be a Master at Arms on the Yorktown by Daniel A. Bernath


	Click here Up to two thirds of the Yorktown crew is left behind as the "Fighting Lady" makes an emergency rush to the North Atlantic to catch a Russian submarine

	Click here From the Radio Room of the USS Yorktown to the Oval Office of the White House and then to jail; Yorktown radio officer Lt jg Egil "Bud" Krogh, goes on to become aide to President Nixon, meets with Elvis Presley and goes to jail for his Watergate deeds
	Click here The Things We (Yorktown sailors) Do for Love
	Click here The US Navy treated their new recruits to steak dinner and white tablecloth-but the *Royal Treatment* doesn't last very long!

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Click here for Yorktown Sea Stories, the joys, the fears, the tragedies the triumphs of the common seaman and airman; These stories are guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye and make you laugh out loud. Submitted by and written by USS Yorktown veterans, their own story; Start at the beginning of the series click, or go direct to sea story by click in the box below;

	click Rear Admiral Gets Swatted looking for sea bat
	click Airman Daniel A. Bernath steers Yorktown off course
	click What's it like to be a helmsman on the USS Yorktown
	click "Sir! I've Lost Steering Control of the Yorktown!!" Helmsman yells to Officer of the Deck
	click Yorktown aviator recalls watching another plane in his squadron blown apart by their own bombs and two shipmates killed;
	click Yorktown Marine, "rumors" by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Happy Birthday US Marine Corps on the USS Yorktown
	click Yorktown Marines, the target of laughter "rumors" by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Bricks in my Seabag, going home
	click Food complaints taken right to the Captain
	click Yorktown sailors were like Hollywood Stars
	click CVA 10 will live forever on Yorktown sailors arm
	click My Failure as a Yorktown Airman"
	click 3rd Class Petty Officer chews out Lt. jg. as Capt. watches
	click USS Yorktown as a demolition derby car
	click Sneak Attack on the Yorktown?
	click Lt. jg's first time disobeys orders
	click Does "Civilian First Class" outrank a Lt. jg? by Daniel A. Bernath
	click The Ultimate Yorktown Sea Story
	click USSR sub at Long Beach so port visit cancelled
	click Trying to look "tough" on Shore Patrol by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Was that YOUR wine that was hidden in Whale Boat #2?
	click Yorktown Officers bringing booze aboard and enlisted Yorktown men "even things up."
	click Is Davey Jones a fan of country music?
	click Are Yankees as good at shooting the enemy as Southerners?
	click The younger generation respects and admires Yorktown veterans
	click What we did between air strikes, our feelings for "The Fighting Lady"
	click Life Magazine 1945 Yorktown sailors pick "Miss Fighting Lady"
	click Tokyo Rose threatens and warns the crew of the Yorktown
	click "Gundecking" to get flight deck pay
	click Senior Officer of Operations is a Petty Officer Second Class by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Cleaning the "Admiral's Passageway" by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Comforting the Sea Sick
	click Basketball on the Yorktown, while at sea
	click Ammo Loading party; "handle like eggs"
	click Remembering skipper Captain James Cain
	click What it was like to be a Yorktown wife as your husband goes into combat
	click The Yorktown Christmas Card that did not bring 'good cheer' by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Adventures of Yorktown sailors with Tokyo Taxi by Daniel A. Bernath
	click What liberty was like in Olongopo, the Phillipines; Hitting the Beach in Olongopo Philippines can be more dangerous than Yankee Station by Daniel A. Bernath
	click They took the watch right off your wrist in Olongopo Philippines by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Is there a ghost on the USS Yorktown as it sits in Charleston harbor?
	click The ghost "Shadow Ed" haunts the decommissioned USS Yorktown?
	click The night a liberty boat smashed two helo's and two boats
	click Yorktown sailor denied admission to Japanese bar because he is a Negro
	click Japanese Kamikaze pilot inspires Yorktown pilot
	click Yorktown aviator forced to ditch put underwater by Yorktown tidal wave
	click Yorktown Aviation Boatswain Mate almost launched off flight deck with airplane
	click Best Selling Author got his inspiration during Vietnam War on the USS Yorktown
	click Getting the Chief's Goat-fueling team
	click Listening to Los Angeles Radio while off the coast of North Vietnam on the Yorktown by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Yorktown GA division worked around the clock
	click Yorktown sailor steals Filipino Flag in Manila during their Independence day
	click Future President Richard M. Nixon cruises around and around the USS Yorktown but doesn't come aboard for welcoming ceremony;
	click Yorktown photographer forgets to load his camera for Captain's wife's party by Daniel A. Bernath
	click The "Mad" motorcycle riding Yorktown Admiral by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Sailboats for the sailors of the USS Yorktown
	click Where have the years flown? A poem.
	click Typhoons and toilets; Yorktown pipefitter's story

	click A poem to a glorious but sleeping USS Yorktown
	click "I survived the Kamikaze attack on the Yorktown"
	click "The Dog Pattern" and heading "back to the beach" because "Tilly" is broken and long delay
	click Yorktown photographer remembers going to battle stations as Russian Bear bombers fly over the Yorktown
	click The Yorktown Boatswain Mates were the "keel of the ship"; Never try to be saltier than an old salt
	click "Captain" of my own vessel in Pearl Harbor got me into trouble
	click Small fire on the Yorktown almost was big Public Relations Disaster for the Navy
	click A Yorktown officer is "an Ensign for Eternity" after bar fight
	click USS Yorktown doesn't go to Yorktown but we all get to dance with the CO's daughter
	click Yorktown nearly goes dead in the water during Readiness Inspection
	click The Yorktown freedom moustache
	click The "Official" USS Yorktown beard by Daniel A. Bernath
	click The best chow in the service was on the Yorktown; sailor gets a big surprise at Olongopo bar
	click Alert XO sends divers to find bomb under our sister ship the USS Kearsarge
	click Yorktown mess cook confesses his sins too quickly during combat
	click Raining inside the photographer's berthing space?
	click What is is really like before you go on an air strike from the USS Yorktown. Warning; actual US Navy-at-sea salty language used here Call me an ACE!
	click Commander chews out Warrant Officer on pecking (and parking) order
	click Going above and beyond call of duty to chew out the Quarterdeck "sideboys" by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Even the XO has to say "Yes Sir" to some people;
	click Tough Marine Sgt. gets knocked out by Gunner's Mate
	click Yorktown Officer is "not a morning person"
	click Yorktown Officers banned from British Navy's swimming pool for conduct unbecoming!
	click Getting drunk under the table by British Marines; drunk Yorktown Marine gives his CO a "piece of his mind"
	click Admirals and Captains just look different when they are not fully dressed by Daniel A. Bernath
	click Ice skating champ Peggy Fleming sure missed out by not hooking up with a Yorktown swabbie
	click The passing of a Yorktown sailor who did his duty and "let it be"
	click Why is the Chicago airport named O'Hare?
	click I witnessed the nylon barrier save a pilot and plane that had lost its tail hook
	click The tallest and the shortest Yorktown sailor on the 1967 1968 WestPac cruise
	click Life aboard the USS Yorktown during my first WestPac cruise
	click USS YORKTOWN ALMOST RUNS INTO...a whale, marine life, UFO?????
	click Why do Yorktown sailors carry knives?
	click Just how religious are Yorktown sailors?
	click The Yorktown called to duty quickly to defend Taiwan from Communist attack
	click The USS Yorktown...hits 36 knots
	click Pointing the five inch gun at the Russians can make them REAL nervous!
	click The powder and shell from a Yorktown five inch gun flops into the deep blue sea
	click Yorktown admiral overrules a marine corps private
	click The Yorktown under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin during the War in Vietnam
	Click here Torpedo Man remembers when JJ Clark risked it all by turning on the lights on the night flight deck to save stranded US Navy pilots
	Click here The day the USS Yorktown lost her anchor and we ran
	Click here Lucky Strike honors the boys on the flight deck after the airdales use old cigarette packs as flight deck flashlight lenses
	Click here The flight deck of the USS Yorktown-one of the most dangerous places in the world through the fifties and sixties
	Click here What happens when the fighting men on the Fighting Lady start to fight each other?
	Click here USS Yorktown CVS 10 Nailed By Friendly Sub
	Click here The Yorktown is a "fighting ship!"
	Click here Ignored his mother's advise he joined up, thought to be dead on USS Yorktown CV5
	Click here "Pure Sex" displayed on the wall of the USS Yorktown, racial tension on the warship, the biggest recovery of them all on the Yorktown, a couple of boot camp stories, chicken dinner on the Yorktown was really "Rabbit Dinner", enlisted men taking a dump and showers in Officer's Country
	Click here Where do the photomates take a dump during Battle Stations?
	Click here Chickenshit on the USS Yorktown hangar deck, at sea
	Click here USS Yorktown almost capsized by rogue wave
	attacked at St. Thomas Virgin Islands USA

You think that's funny? Humor, cartoons, reflections and Yorktown fiction.

	Click here Old Chiefs A fitting tribute to the men who actually run the US Navy Warning; actual US Navy-at-sea salty language used here

	Click here "I Love the United States Navy; Reflections of a Blackshoe" by Vice Admiral Harold Koenig

	Click here "I Love the United States Marine Corps" by COL "Irish" Egan Warning! Actual USMC at sea/in combat, salty Marine Corps language used here.

	Click here USS Yorktown CV 10 sails one night a year as a ghost ship from Patriot's Point

	Click here for Yorktown sailor cartoons of life at sea;


	Click here if you miss your life on the USS Yorktown and the "Bravest Captain" the Yorktown ever had, Yorktown funny fiction

	Click here Young man, do you want to join the US Navy? Do you think its like "Top Gun" or the TV show "Jag"? Better read this first!

	Click here "Squids vs. Jarheads" The US Navy and US Marine Corps rivalry played out on the USS Yorktown too

	Click here The Ultimate Yorktown Sea Story and a Yorktown Chief Petty Officer goes to Heaven

	Click here CINCPAC advises Yorktown sailors on how to behave once they return to the United States

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Camping on board USS Yorktown

Click here History of the USS Yorktown, How Yorktown changed the world; The Story of Yorktown, the battle that defeated the world's most powerful empire and established the United States of America, the first USS Yorktown a sloop of war, the second USS Yorktown a gunboat, the third USS Yorktown a hero and casualty of the Battle of Midway, the fourth USS Yorktown, a carrier that fought in the World War Two, Korea, Vietnam and the fifth USS Yorktown, an Aegis Class Cruiser, today on patrol of the world's sea lanes;


	Click here The First Men to Travel to the Moon. The United States won the race to the Moon and the USS Yorktown played a part; See and read the story of the NASA Apollo 8 recovery by the Yorktown as witnessed by a US Navy photographers mate Daniel A. Bernath;


	Click here The story behind "Hollywood Makes a Movie About the Fighting Lady;"


	Click here The Yorktown guns; so powerful the blast would throw you up against the ship or overboard, knock your earplugs out and burn your eyebrows and and eyelashes

	Click here for the inside story of the Yorktown crewman, captured and tortured by the Imperial Japanese;

	Click here Pictures of the USS Yorktown, on her last cruise and TODAY, in action, at work and at final rest, flight operations, the Yorktown in her many transformations;

	Click here Underway replenishment or "unrep". The USS Yorktown and the US Navy do the impossible every day; classified as "Top Secret" and the US Navy secret weapon, resupply a war ship at sea, in stormy weather, going 20 knots, while simultaneously conducting flight operations;

	Click here What is the Arlington of Naval Aviation and who is "Smokey" Stover?


	Click here What is it like at a USS Yorktown Reunion? Can a plaque be enough to thank the men who flew from ships to save the United States?

	Click here What is it like for a Yorktown sailor to cross the Equator in 1968 and be transformed from a pollywog into a Shellback. *You've got to see it to believe it;*

	Click here Yorktown sailors enter the Arctic Circle and become "Bluenose" sailors certificate of Daniel A. Bernath

	Click here Yorktown sailors round the Cape Horn of South America and become "Mossback" sailors certificate of Daniel A. Bernath


	The USS Yorktown was a "city at sea" with a doctor's office, a newspaper, tv station, police department and Jail. Read the story of the "Brig" run by the seagoing US Marines on board the USS Yorktown. Click here


	Click here Admiral JJ Clark and Bob Hope together as Chiefs. Admiral Clark (The Yorktown's first Captain) saves the movie "The Fighting Lady" from the US Navy censor

	Click here Hollywood turns USS Yorktown into a Japanese Aircraft Carrier; Tora! Tora! Tora! Rear Admiral Paul Gillcrist Leading a Flight of Japanese Aircraft "Top Secret" that Jap planes on the Yorktown, heading for Hawaii in 1968?

	Click here Hollywood uses USS Yorktown as a backdrop for "War Stories with Oliver North" on Fox News Network and as a set for "Get Smart" TV show; by Daniel A. Bernath and Dale Potts

	Click here Ronald Reagan's first wife adopts the Yorktown and Movie/Broadway/TV star Carol Channing becomes the girlfriend of the entire Yorktown crew and takes them all to a movie
	Click here "Kiddie Cruiser" Dan Bernath, turns 18 years old (40 yrs ago) in combat zone in Vietnamese coastal waters on USS Kearsarge.
	click here USS Yorktown's newscaster Dan Bernath insults the race of our allies and has the Captain chew him out for it not just once, but twice.

	Click here the USS Yorktown "in the news"
	Click here Why are Yorktown pilots and US Navy pilots better than US Air Force pilots? Make sure your seat belt is fastened before you click here

	Click here Baseball caps in use as work hats and "at sea hats" in the US Navy started on the USS Yorktown and "Scrappy the Yorktown dog Goes AWOL!" one of the heroes of the movie "The Fighting Lady" The crew of the USS Yorktown also had another dog, other than Scrappy.

	Click here "Tradition of Victory" the new USS Yorktown CG 48, an Aegis class cruiser has a crest that honors the aircraft carriers Yorktown that have gone before

	Click here The USS Yorktown becomes a museum at Charleston South Carolina. See the pictures of her towed into Patriots Point in 1975
	Click here to get your Cold War Recognition Certificate from a grateful United States of America

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Battle of Midway, the turning point of World War Two,
the US Navy destroys the Japanese Navy and USS Yorktown CV 5 is sunk in 1942

	When retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Otis Kight remembers the Battle of Midway, he remembers the silence click here
	Eyewitness to History CV5 Defending USS Yorktown CV5
	Click here In his own words-Photographer's Mate Roy, *"I filmed the battle of Midway"*
	Click here for the first hand account of the Battle of Midway, the sinking of the USS Yorktown CV5 and what it is like to have a ship shot out from under you;
	Click here Recollections of Lieutenant George Gay, USNR -- sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) the "eyewitness" to the Battle of Midway CV 5. He saw it all.
	Click here Battle of Midway by LT Joseph P. Pollard, MC, USN, Medical Officer on board USS Yorktown (CV-5)
	Click here Another veteran of the Battle of Midway on Yorktown CV 5, Dan Kaseberg;
	Click here God was at the Battle of Midway and with us on the USS Yorktown CV 5
	Click here Yorktown CV5 died "like a lady"

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