Abandoning Ship: USS Yorktown and the Battle of Midway

[@KaoretheHalfDemon]

Yorktown was a good ship with a good crew. She went into Midway already wounded and did very well, her airmen helped sink two of the Japanese carriers. She and her crew did their country proud!

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

Today is June 7th, 2020, and I recall the Yorktown and her heroic crew on this day she went down. God bless the men still living and the dead and their families !

[@charliedallachie3539]

The only US carrier lost in the battle, I’m surprised that wasn’t shown in the recent film

[@RAxDynamo]

I have a crate a foot locker from York town for my B day. And I loved it and the whole crew got captured or drowned accept for this one man vet speaking.

[@tylerjoyce2884]

i stayed on the yorktown for a week and a half when i was younger with the scouts and traces of battle and bullet impacts can be found all over(she’s of course repaired most). staying in the barracks where the men slept was sobering. the ship creeks like she’s still in the pacific but she’s mored up. not to mention the talking you’ll hear from rooms that are empty or down the hallways sounds like a group of people but you’ll never find em.

[@archangelofcoffee922]

Oh shit. I stayed on the CV 10 in Charlestown, SC too when I was in the scouts (Troop 133 from Clermont, FL). I remember going in the early 2000s. It was around the same time the the civil war era sub the Hunley was found. We went to Fort Sumter as well. What year did you go?

[@jamesconnerbircher5812]

I was probably there with you

[@jamesconnerbircher5812]

I think it was a big national boycott outing cause I remember staying the night on her early 2000s as well.

[@LudacrisBass]

Lol same i don't remember much but it was awesome

[@lostgoyle3249]

I hate to say anything...but this was the (C-V10) Yorktown I believe.... The one in Charleston. I think they're talking about the first one

[@billbright1755]

U.S.S. Vireo A M - 52 was towing Yorktown when she was hit by enemy sub torpedos. Her valiant efforts throughout the war a picture of the fighting spirit of U.S. Navy.

[@jamesramos1200]

I grew up in in household of veteran of Yorktown, he was hydraulic operator. Some how he attainted wealth and became wealth I think he served in the second one. I remember his wife dying at 94 in 2004. Im thankful to have experince the 40 and 50's as hispanic immigrant as older man. Rest in heaven my brothers and sisters. Thank you for allowing me into your life.

[@duane356]

"How far to the nearest land?" "Three miles" "Which way?" "Straight down"

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

No Navy can survive the loss of four fleet carriers when the ability to replace them doesn’t exist

[@madcitymcflyer]

Great narrative, but many of the film shots show the U.S.S. Lexington being abandoned during the May, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea. That photo of the whale boat picking up survivors is in the famous U.S. Navy official shot of the sinking Lexington. Many of the film shots of men in the water are of Naval aviators, not crewmen. Also shows a photo of Navy aviators at the rear of a plane on a carrier deck. Photo was taken during the 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea, also known as the " Great Marianas' Turkey Shoot" for the number of Japanese planes downed by our Naval carrier aviators. The plane is an F6F-3 Grumman Hellcat. The Hellcat didn't enter service until late 1943.

[@snake57]

“3 miles. Straight down “. Made me spit out my beer.

[@michaelwoolsey3886]

My grandfather was the Intelligence Officer in the Yorktown when she was abandoned at Midway. He secured the Bridge before she transferred her flag.

[@troyalger1603]

My dad was a CPO on the Yorktown. He was a few that stayed on deck while shooting at the zeros. My dad on the last few months before he passed away told me he jumped down on the front right side gun and was shooting at the zeros. Now many years later my wife tells me (she had read on line)that they didn't know there were still men on the ship if it wasn't fir that guy shooting at the zeros. Thanks to all in the military past, present and future. My mom was a marine and ordered parts for the corsair and my dad worked on them on the Yorktown. My dad wasn't supposed to be on the Yorktown but the ship he was supposed to be on wasn't ready when pearl harbor got hit. Well I'll stop talking. Too much history in my family to keep going on on your post.

[@garywilliams5440]

I spent a week with Boy Scouts on the second Yorktown museum ship at patriots point What a great time!

[@lightningmcqueen181]

Can u imagine abandoning an aircraft carrier not on a life craft or Rafts, Directly in the drink, no guarantee you will be rescued.... Heros! All of em

[@frankthetank520]

Japanese carriers were mad about the loss. decided to go attack whatever ship they could. They went all in on a second wave but attacked the Yorktown which they previously thought was disabled. Pretty intense battle

[@stevelawrie8265]

The F4F was the Corsair. The Wildcats were the F2F.

[@WayGroovy]

Can I get a clear image from the crew photo at 3 minutes please?

[@claudeyaz]

Were the 1000s on deckworkers put on the USS Yorktown to rush repairs before midway, still on the ship before battle? Is that why the Japanese thought the Yorktown which was hit at first, wasnt the same carrier they hit at first?

[@keithrosenberg5486]

Midway restored the strategic balance. Guadalcanal was the first American offensive.

[@jamesstephenson2050]

Most pics of sinking us carriers show the lexington

[@turtleiguess5240]

I have been on the Yorktown before

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

You are speaking of the Yorktown CV 10 of the Essex class which replaced the sunken Yorktown CV 5. the new one is preserved at Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina..

[@turtleiguess5240]

FRAGIORGIO1 Was the new one ever been into battle

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

@@turtleiguess5240 --Yes. She entered service in 1943 and participated in a number of campaigns till the end of the war, and she also took part in the Koean War. If you wish to know more, I recommend you to the detailed article on CV-10 that is in Wikipedia online. Enjoy and best wishes. I see there is a movie about her on YT that is called "The Fighting Lady".

[@turtleiguess5240]

FRAGIORGIO1 thx for telling me about this

[@richardcg5500]

What happened to scrappy?

[@GloriusYounger]

God Bless Langley CV-1, Lexington CV-2, Yorktown CV-5, Wasp CV-7 and Hornet CV-8 and their crew

[@zanepowell6631]

I thought the Yorktown was moored in Charleston SC

[@Andrew03289]

That would be a (CV-10) class not the original that sunk in Midway which was a (CV-5) class aircraft carrier. The (C-10) was likely named after Yorktown in honor of it's service during Midway. Hope this cleared things up a bit!

[@infinitexvoid7605]

it is

[@FRAGIORGIO1]

--I would just ad that it is from the Essex (CV 9) class that were so numerous in WW II. The CV 5 Yorktown as the lead ship of her won class that included Enterprise and the original Hornet.

[@That_FL_Atv]

I was on it last month

[@teller1290]

...though CV-10 Y'town did serve in WWII.

[@amilionbillionmile4727]

doesnt 0:07-0:10 look like a movie

[@jarrodyuki7081]

i168 tanabe.

[@godisamulti-racialhermaphr7560]

ILBTs!