USS Yorktown ist ein US Navy Flugzeugträger und ist ein nationales und historisches Wahrzeichen als Museumsschiff an der Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
3800 x 2544 px | 32,2 x 21,5 cm | 12,7 x 8,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
14. Juni 2017
Ort:
Charleston, SC, United States
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USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier (CVA), and then eventually became an antisubmarine carrier (CVS). 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, and 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. Yorktown was decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 became a museum ship at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She is a National Historic Landmark
