File:USS Yorktown (CV-10) underway cMay 1943.jpg
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| Description | 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. |
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| Source | Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-471017 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command |
| Author | Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. |
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