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Vintage U.S.S. Yorktown CVS-10 Color Photo Postcard
Essex Class Aircraft Carrier
She was launched on 21 January 1943 and was commissioned on 15 April 1943
She participated in several
campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations, earning 11 battle stars
and the Presidential Unit Citation
Decommissioned shortly after
the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early
1950s as an attack carrier, and then eventually became an antisubmarine
carrier.
She was recommissioned too late to
participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific,
including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle
stars.
Late in her career she served as a
recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, was used in the movie
Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment
During the first half of 1970, Yorktown operated out of Norfolk and began preparations for inactivation
On 27 June 1970, Yorktown was decommissioned and was berthed with the Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet
She remained there almost three years before her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 June 1973
During 1974, the Navy
Department approved the donation of Yorktown to the Patriot's Point
Development Authority, Charleston, South Carolina
She was towed from Bayonne, New Jersey, to Charleston in June 1975
She was formally dedicated as a memorial on the 200th anniversary of the Navy, 13 October 1975
Yorktown was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986
Unused vintage color photo postcard
Light crease to the card
The corners have a small light crease
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