File:USS Yorktwon (CV-10) off Japan in March 1945.jpg

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) and other ships of Task Group 58.4 steaming off Kyushu on 18 March 1945. The photo was taken from USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Independence (CVL-22) is visible aft of Yorktown. On this date 16 carriers if Task Force 58 under the command of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher began launching strikes to neutralize Japanese air power prior to the Allied invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945. In five days of operation, U.S. naval aviators destroyed 482 enemy planes.

Note the dazzle camouflage schemes, Yorktown was painted in Measure 33 Design 10A.
Date Taken on 18 March 1945
Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.243.023
Author U.S. Navy

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