USS Yorktown at NAS Alameda September 1943
USS Yorktown at Majuro Atoll 5 June 1944
USS Yorktown 1943
USS Yorktown 28 May 1944
USS Yorktown 2
The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10, Newport News 15 April 1943
USS Yorktown at anchor with other carriers of U.S. 3rd Fleet, 1945
Cmdr James Flatley with CAG 5 pilots aboard USS Yorktown 1943
USS Yorktown CV-10 hit by Kamikaze, March 1945
USS Yorktown CV-10 anchored
LCT loaded with ammo alongside USS Yorktown 1945
USS Yorktown CV-10 in camouflage 1944
USS Yorktown (CV/CVS-10) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Carrier was laid down on 1 December 1941 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard, renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942 to commemorate Yorktown (CV-5), lost at the Battle of Midway. The new Yorktown was launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, and commissioned on 15 April 1943 at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Captain Joseph J. Clark in command.