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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. |
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"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. |
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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!" |
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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 |
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Flying Squadron Three and its first skipper LCDR Fritz Wolf, become
an Ace while assigned to the USS Yorktown |
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Some of the Medals worn on the chest of USS Yorktown veterans |
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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, |
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Kicked Ass to Tokyo", banner "still waves"; |
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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 |
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Prisoner of War by the Imperial Japanese.
They killed us by inches." |
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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 |
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VF-88, pilot from the USS Yorktown fight in the last dogfight of the war, four
of our pilots killed |
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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. |
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USS Yorktown's raid on Wake Island prompted Japanese Commander to murder
American Prisoners of War |
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A Yorktown crewmember remembers what it was like to have the Japanese
try to kill you hours after the war was "over." |
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Taylor Eastman was 'a pilot's pilot, a man's man, a loyal, true friend' |
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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. |
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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, |
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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 |
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pilot on the Yorktown CV 10 in World War Two; |
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USS YORKTOWN SINKS JAPANESE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Largest Battleship in
Naval History, suicide mission by Japanese Navy, 5,000 Japanese sailors
killed |
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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 |
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CHARLES G. FRIES, JR. ARM2/C TBM APRIL 1945 flying off the Yorktown to
sink a Japanese Battleship, the largest battleship ever built |
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What was it like to be on the Yorktown gun crew shooting down Japanese
Kamikaze planes |
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"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? |
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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; |
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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; |
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From the flight deck of the Yorktown to a crash into enemy territory
"I was alone in enemy territory" |
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Newly minted Ensign hits the waves just as he sights the Yorktown; |
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"The Navy Department deeply regrets to inform
you ..." that your son and Yorktown aviator has been killed in
action |
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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 |
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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." |
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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 |
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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; |
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Photographer's Mate, almost swept into the sea by typhoon, watches the
Yorktown bent in the middle by the gigantic waves |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Click here The Best Landing Safety Officer in the US Navy served the aviators of the
USS Yorktown |
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"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 |
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| 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; |
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Yorktown plane crashes into mast of USS New Orleans, spraying aviation fuel
and killing one crewmember; |
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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" |
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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." |
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actually face it? The REAL speech that General Patton gave to his
troops, not the clean-up version from the movie. |
Korean War and Cold War
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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. |
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Too Fast to Stop, Too Slow to Fly, Yorktown plane's crashes from flight deck
into the North China Sea off of Korea |
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here Steering the USS Yorktown with no training and no
instruction. Something you'll never forget |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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here Yorktown PhotoMate gets threatened to be thrown overboard for
taking flash pictures during plane crash. |
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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! |
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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
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Yorktown Aviator's "Brush" with death, tin can sailors saved him; |
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25 and Alive, spelled out on the flight deck with
sailors. Photo by Milt Putnam, PH2 |
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Helicopter operations off the coast of Viet Nam 1965; underway replenishment |
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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." |
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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 |
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The strange people who served aboard the USS Yorktown. Adolf
Hitler on the USS Yorktown? |
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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? |
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Mid Air Collision Kills Yorktown Aviator; Son
finds eyewitnesses 33 years later through YorktownSailor.com |
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Living and working on Yankee Station, off the
coast of North Vietnam for a crewman of the USS Yorktown |
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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 |
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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 |
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Adventures of a USS Yorktown Cop. What it was
like to be a Master at Arms on the Yorktown by Daniel A.
Bernath |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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
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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:
"Aircraft Carriers" See and hear USS Yorktown crewmen speak of
the heroism aboard the USS Yorktown in combat
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