Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose only regimental blot is their surrender at Yorktown...
Commander Charles, 34, having somehow survived a plane-shattering crash, spent three months in the hospital, went out to the Pacific as a fighter pilot. Lieut. Richard, 27, a fighter pilot in one of the old Yorktown's famous squadrons, was in the scrap in the Coral Sea. He was shot down but survived to fight at the Battle of Midway. Twice decorated, he is now at Jacksonville (Fla.) teaching new airmen how to fight. Lieut. Quentin, 25, who commanded an antiaircraft battery on the Saratoga, is also at Jacksonville. While Richard and Quentin were having a breather...
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...Four-Plane Division. Flatley's progression from this was to a division of six planes; Thach argued for four. Mid way settled the argument, in Thach's favor. Escorting a torpedo squadron, Jim my Thach led a. six-plane division from the Yorktown. More than 20 Zeros swarmed down, nailed two of his six, but the other four, flying in the unbroken formation that modern battle demands, picked off three Zeros and fought through. (Fighting Three's record in that battle: 70 Jap "probables" against seven lost.) That day, for the first time, Fighting Three proved another...
...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...