#yorktown-class

Le porte-avions USS Enterprise (CV-6) et derrière le porte-avions USS Lexington (CV-16) – Guerre du Pacifique – Océan Pacifique - Juin 1944

USS Yorktown (CV-5) - Heavily damaged after bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle of Midway. While under tow back to Pearl Harbor, she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-168 and sunk on June 7, 1942.

USS Hornet (CV-8) - After being heavily damaged by bomb and torpedo attacks during the battle Santa Cruz Islands, and with news of an enemy surface force approaching, she was ordered to be scuttled. However, she did not sink until the enemy surface force arrived and torpedoed her. She sunk on October 27, 1942.

USS Enterprise (CV-6) - Fought in every major battle and campaign in the Pacfic theatre, from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. She was the sole survivor out of the three sister ships in her class.

Le porte-avions USS Enterprise (CV-6) se dirige vers le canal de Panama pour participer aux célébrations de la journée de la Marine à New York – 10 octobre 1945

"How Hornet Went Down," Windsor Star. January 12, 1943. Page 1. --- Eye Witness Account of U.S. Carrier's Last Fight --- The United Press war correspondent who wrote the following despatch had been compelled by reasons of military security, enforced by naval censorship, to suppress since October 26 one of the best stories of the Pacific war. On that date he witnessed the death of the carrier Hornet, and now, with official permission, describes it.

By CHARLES P. ARNOT United Press Staff Correspondent

HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET, PEARL HARBOR, Jan 17 - A seaman, lying on the blistering deck of the crippled aircraft carrier Hornet as enemy planes shrieked down, tried to climb off his stretcher "to have another shot at the Japs." One of his legs had been shattered, the other broken.

A man with a broken back tried to refuse a surgeon's care an his buddy could be treated first.

BOMB TOSSED OFF Four men ran to throw a blazing. bone-searing incendiary bomb off the deck.

Men rammed powder into almost red-hot guns with their bare handswhen the automatic controls were knocked out.

Those are a few of the scores of incidents that made American heroes and American history when the 11 United States warships, whose names were made public today, were sunk in the South Pacific last fall, all fighting to the last.

I was with the fleet. I saw the hit that crippled the Hornet and I heard at first hand the stories of officers and men in all four engagement concerned.

Japan paid a price for those ships which her navy should never forget

The Hornet was sunk in the battle of Santa Crus October 26. Japan paid with a large aircraft carrier damaged and probably sunk and two cruisers and three destroyers sunk by the Hornet's planes.

Cruisers Atlanta and Juneau, destroyers Laffey, Cushing, Monssen and Barton - Japan paid with one battleship, three heavy and two light cruisers and two light cruisers and five destroyers sunk.

Technical drawing of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Although described as a "typical aircraft carrier" by ALL HANDS in 1953, the carrier depicted is a Yorktown-class carrier, designed in the 1930s.