96 items in this album on 5 pages.
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USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at sea north of Eniwetok en route Majuro, Marshall Islands, 24 Feb 1944. | Elements of Task Force 58 of the US Navy 5th Fleet at anchor, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, probably Apr 1944 | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) Landing Signal Officer Lt Richard C Tripp giving the “cut” signal to the pilot of a landing F6F Hellcat fighter, Pacific Ocean, 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) Landing Signal Officer Lt Richard C Tripp watching the landing of an F6F Hellcat fighter, Pacific Ocean, 1944. |
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Aerial view of Yorktown (Essex-class) with F6F Hellcat fighters, Apr-May 1944. Note opposite facing fore and aft deck numbers that were quickly corrected. The dark stripe down the flight deck was unique to Yorktown | SBD-5 Dauntless making a belly landing on USS Yorktown (Essex-class) after a combat strike, Sep 1943 - May 1944 | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944. |
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USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) in the channel leaving Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 29 May 1944. | Essex-class carrier Yorktown underway in the Mariana Islands, Jun 1944; note camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a; also F6F Hellcat fighters, TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, and SB2C Helldiver dive bombers | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. |
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USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at anchor in the Majuro Lagoon, Marshall Islands, 5 Jun 1944. Note LCVP | An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 1, the “High Hatters,” sustains a catastrophic failure while landing aboard the carrier USS Yorktown (Essex-class) north of the Marianas, 16 Jun 1944. |
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SB2C-1 Helldiver bombers returning to USS Yorktown (Essex-class; CV-10), early Jul 1944 | USS Yorktown (Essex-class) under way east of Guam during the Mariana Islands Campaign, 17 Jul 1944. | USS Yorktown underway, Sep 1944; note Measure 33/10A camouflage | Carrier Yorktown (Essex-class) in camouflage Measure MS-33/10a at Puget Sound, Washington, US, Oct 1944. |
96 items in this album on 5 pages.