MAKE A MEME View Large Image Yorktown (CV-10) underway cMay 1943.jpg The U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10 operating at sea circa mid-1943 with a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger flying over her bow This photo may have been taken during carrier trials for the Curtiss ...
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Keywords: USS Yorktown (CV-10) underway cMay 1943.jpg The U S Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-10 operating at sea circa mid-1943 with a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger flying over her bow This photo may have been taken during carrier trials for the Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver Most of the planes on her flight deck are of that type Bombing Squadron 5 VB-5 went aboard Yorktown with the SB2C during May-June 1943 to participate in the ship ' s shakedown cruise The results were disastrous for the squadron's SB2C suffered numerous mechanical difficulties not the least of which was the propensity for the aircrafts' tailhooks to pull out of their wells during recovery aboard the ship Yorktown ' s skipper Capt Joseph C Jocko Clark became so irate that he had them replaced with Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive-bombers which VB-5 eventually took into combat Official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-470000/80-G-471017 html 80-G-471017 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1943 Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee USNR PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Yorktown CV-10 Charles Kerlee
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