Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cost. Such battles do not come cheaply. The destroyer Porter was lost, other ships damaged. But the real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
...wiry little officer said grimly: "Some one's going to get relieved over this." A flyer, an old hand with greying hair and a cynical look, said: "Well, that's three I've seen go-the Lex, the Yorktown and now this baby." A thin-faced chief petty officer said: "I'm thinking of those boys on Guadal." The ship's executive officer said merely: "We'll just have to develop better methods of detection...
...Wasp, one of the smallest and newest American carriers, was the third carrier lost in the Battle of the Pacific. The others were the Lexington, lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea last May, and the Yorktown, sunk in the Battle of Midway last June...
Short, quiet Albert ("Putty") Reid (who piloted the famed NC4 across the Atlantic in 1919) will head the Technical Training Command. Heavy, greying Elliott Buckmaster (who skippered the carrier Yorktown to her last hours at Midway) will run the Primary Air Training Command. Stocky Alfred Montgomery probably will get the Intermediate Air Training Command. To unnamed jobs went De Witt ("Duke") Ramsey, Arthur Davis, Charles Mason and Frank Wagner (who commanded Patwing Ten in early Pacific battles...
...survivors watched her end. Some turned away. Almost all have asked for another carrier assignment. To the men of the Yorktown, the ship was the bravest hero of them...