YORKTOWN CV 5

Ship Name and Designation History

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Yorktown Class Aircraft Carrier Keel Laid 21 May 1934 - Launched 4 April 1936 USS YORKTOWN CV-5 Commissioned 30 September 1937 Disabled by Japanese carrier aircraft bombs and torpedoes, 4 June 1942 (Battle of Midway).         Torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168, 6 June. Sunk on 7 June 1942. A number of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on active duty Struck from Naval Register 2 October 1942

Naval Covers

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1. USS Yorktown CV-5 Covers Page 1    (1936-1941)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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Post office established 30 September 1937 - Disestablished 1 June 1942

 

Locy Type FDC 3 (AC-BBT) "NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"

1937-09-30

Commissioning, cachet by Leo A. Schupp

 

Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "NAVY / DAY"

1937-10-27

Navy Day cachet by Frederick Horton

 

Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL / HARBOR,T.H."

1941-04-18

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY / DAY"

1939-10-27

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Locy Type 3z (BTB)

1941-08-27

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Locy Type 6ep(2)

1940-04-10

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Locy Type 7r

1941-04-15

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Locy Type 7rz

1942-04-03

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Locy Type 9v

1940-04-10

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Locy Type 9efw 1937

1940-04-10

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Locy Type 9efw 1941

1942-04-10

Favor strike on stamp block applied to cover

 

Locy Type 9x

1940-04-10

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Other Information

USS YORKTOWN earned the American Defense Service Medal (w/ "A" device), the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (w/ 3 Battle stars) and the World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Named after a town in Virginia, where the climactic battle of the American Revolution was fought in the autumn of 1781

Five ships of the U.S. Navy have borne this name -
USS Yorktown (1839), a 16-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1840 (sunk in 1850)
USS Yorktown (PG 1), the lead Yorktown-class gunboat commissioned in 1889 (sold in 1921)
USS Yorktown (CV 5), the lead Yorktown-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1937 (sunk in 1942)
USS Yorktown (CV 10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 (museum ship since 1975)
USS Yorktown (CG 48), a Ticonderoga-class cruiser commissioned in 1984 (awaiting scrapping)

 

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