Word: yorktown
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...Near here is the battlefield of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the war for Texas independence. ... As a permanent memorial of the Texas Yorktown there has been erected the most beautiful monument in the world...
...Gave the nation's thanks and Presidential citations for "extraordinary heroism" to the men of eight aircraft carriers - the Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Cabot, Essex, Hornet, Lexington, San Jacinto and Yorktown...
Died. Commodore Dixie ("Indestructible Man") Kiefer, 49, barrel-chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup...
October: Biggest carrier raid to date (Wake Island) included the Essex, the new Lexington and Yorktown, and three light flattops...
...family's brightest stars were Lieut. Commander Richard and Commander Charles. Charles Crommelin, class of '31, won a D.F.C. over Marcus Island in September 1943, won another by leading the Yorktown's air group during the Gilberts invasion. That was when he brought his plane back despite 200 wounds, then insisted on debarking from the ambulance and visiting the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club "to show those kids it's not so tough to be shot up." Richard Crommelin, '28, had started gathering medals even earlier: a Navy Cross for the Coral Sea, another...