Yorktown

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I missed the initial anniversary dates but here's one for naval historians:
What association does Bon Homme Richard have in relation to something about midway in the Pacific?

8-)

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While still under construction, the name of CV 10 was changed from Bonhomme Richard to Yorktown, the previous Yorktown was lost three months earlier at the Battle of Midway.....A wild stab via Wikipedia

Matt

[H]

I tried not to make it too wild by providing
"Yorktown" and "midway in the Pacific!"

The CV-10, an Essex-class aircraft carrier, was put to
construction at Newport News, VA, just 6 days prior to
the infamous attack at Pearl Harbor. The event you
speak of took place on September 26, 1942,
commemorating the CV-5, the CV-10 being launched
on January 21, 1943; having christened the CV-5 in
1937, Eleanore Roosevelt rushed forward to do so for
the CV-10 when it jumped the gun for launch. It
wasn't until April 15, 1943, that it was finally
commissioned at Norfolk, VA, captained by
Joseph J. Clark.
However, the CV/CVS-10 had other fame than actual
combat; something quite ironic took place in December
of 1968...

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives (photo # 80-G-K-14379), Scott Dyben

[ATI_7500]

Apollo 8, per chance?

[expat]

She was used for the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Matt

[dcunning30]

Here's a quiz for you WWII Pacific Theater buffs:

William "Bull" Halsey was one of the more famous admirals in the Pacific.  In his wartime career, he had two glaring and IMHO huge blunders that needlessly cost lives.  What were they?

[H]

She was used for the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  Matt

The ironic twist was that she was wearing a lot of makeup for what ship whose fate rests where?

8-)

[ATI_7500]

Yorktown played Yorktown. Nice.

[H]

[quote]Here's a quiz for you WWII Pacific Theater buffs:
William "Bull" Halsey was one of the more famous admirals in the Pacific.

[H]

Yorktown played Yorktown. Nice.

Try again -- that's the ironic twist... it was not playing the part of its predecessor.

Edit: remember that none of the U.S. carriers were at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (finally arrived on the 8th).

8-)

[dcunning30]

[quote][quote]She was used for the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

[H]

An SBD "Dauntless" passes over USS Yorktown (CV-5).
Planes parked aft appear to be TBD torpedo planes, indicating
the photo was taken sometime before 0840 hrs, 4 June 1942,
when Yorktown launched her aircraft to attack the Japanese
aircraft carrier force:


Enterprise and Yorktown planes attack the Kaga, Agaki and Soryu:


[color=#003300]Japan lost 4 carriers at Midway. The Akagi had kept afloat but became the first Japanese
ship to be scuttled by its own ships at 30

[ATI_7500]

Neat, 'though the Essex-class carriers (and everything that came before) are not quite my point of interest. I prefer everthing that came after those and before the swimming nukes.

[Papa9571]

USS Yorktown, CV-10 also had another distinction. She was the first ship to carry and use color film for her aircraft gun cameras and shipboard documentation during World War II. It wasn't until the Dry I, USS Intrepid, relieved her in late 1944 that another carrier began using color film.

[H]

USS Yorktown, CV-10 also had another distinction. She was the first ship to carry and use color film...

Liked the camera, didn't she...
and still so at museum.

8-)