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[Source: U.S. Navy]
Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle stars. Late in her career she served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, was used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment.
Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She is a National Historic Landmark.
Name: USS Yorktown Class: Essex Hull Number: 10 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Laid down: December 1, 1941 Launched: Jaunuary 21, 1943 |
Commissioned: April 15, 1943 January 2, 1953 Decommissioned: January 9, 1947 June 27, 1970 Struck: June 1, 1973 |
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