USS Yorktown (CV-5)
USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Author: David Doyle

Publisher: Schiffer Military History

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9780764352881

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USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy's first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by maintaining Neutrality Patrols during 1941 in the Atlantic, quickly adapted to the Pacific Theater, having been dispatched there immediately after Pearl Harbor. First at Coral Sea, then at Midway, Yorktown's flyers blunted the sword of Japanese aggression. The men flying from her decks were instrumental in turning the tide of WWII in the Pacific. This volume explores Yorktown's construction, prewar and wartime activities through carefully researched photos, many of which have never before been published, which are reproduced in remarkable clarity. This clarity, and the large size of many of the photos, coupled with descriptive and informative captions, puts the reader on the deck of this historic warship throughout her history.

Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers
Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers

Author: Roger Chesneau

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1473831644

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This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying US aircraft carrier models. This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the Yorktown class of American aircraft carriers. These legendary ships kept the Japanese at bay through World War II, in the dark days between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, where the USS Yorktown herself was lost. The USS Hornet launched the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan before being sunk at Santa Cruz in October 1942, but the USS Enterprise survived the fierce fighting of the early war years to become the US Navy's most decorated ship. This lavishly illustrated guide takes readers through a brief history of the development and careers of the Yorktown class. With its unparalleled level of visual information—including paint schemes, line drawings and photographs—it is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous carriers.

No Higher Honor
No Higher Honor

Author: Jeff Nesmith

Publisher: Longstreet Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Young and idealistic, the men who carried the sea battle that turned the war with Japan brought with them an uncluttered sense of purpose, patriotism and love of country. This is their story.

USS Yorktown at Midway
USS Yorktown at Midway

Author: Stanford Linzey

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2004-12

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1594678952

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In the epic Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown, with 2,500 men aboard, received three bomb hits and two torpedoes. Eighty-six men died instantlymany were wounded. At the command, Abandon ship! the crew slid down the lines into the murky, oily waters of the Pacific.Barefoot survivors knelt on the steel deck of a rescuing war ship and offered thanks to the Almighty. The author is a survivor.

Black Shoe Carrier Admiral
Black Shoe Carrier Admiral

Author: John B Lundstrom

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 1612512208

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The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior, Fletcher led the carrier forces in the Pacific that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomon’s. Despite these successes, during the post-war Fletcher had become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. naval history and was portrayed as a timid bungler who failed to relieve Wake Island and who deliberately abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal.

The Battle Off Midway Island
The Battle Off Midway Island

Author: Theodore Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 9780380787906

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An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1942–45
US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1942–45

Author: Mark Stille

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-05-20

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1780967519

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Aircraft carriers were the US Navy's principal weapon against Japan during the Pacific War. Development of the Essex class began in 1939, becoming the largest class of carrier ever to be built. Early in the Pacific War it became renowned for its 'Sunday Punch' of 36 fighter planes, 36 dive bombers, and 18 torpedo planes. Alongside the lighter Independence class, these carriers formed the formidable Fast Carrier Force in the Pacific. Featuring artwork detailing the interior and exterior features of the ships, this book explores their design, development, and the action they saw in the Pacific, including the climactic battles of Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa.

Radioman
Radioman

Author: Carol Edgemon Hipperson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-10-28

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1429994185

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Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the author's handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the world's first battles between aircraft carriers. Ray Daves grew up on a small farm near Little Rock, Arkansas. Impatient with school and the prospect of becoming a farmer like his father, he joined the CCC and went from there to the navy, where he learned to use the radio to send messages, and soon found himself in the momentary peacefulness of Pearl Harbor. Most of America's World War II veterans were not in uniform when the war began. Daves is one of the few who was. He could also tell what was happening on the bridge of the famous carrier Yorktown before it went down and of the secretive relationship between the Russian and American forces in Alaska at the time. Carol Edgemon Hipperson's discovery of this one man's inspiring story is shared with great skill and energy. A must-read for those looking for a personal, intimate account of the events of this tumultuous time in American history.