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...mighty "Y" is gone. Last week, three months and nine days after the carrier Yorktown sank near Midway, the Navy chose to announce her passing. How many men went down with "the York" the Navy did not say, but photographs of the survivors at Honolulu (see cuts) eloquently told of suffering and heroism...
Biggest U.S. loss was the carrier Yorktown, bombed, torpedoed and forced out of action. The destroyer Hammann was plain sunk. Other U.S. losses: 92 officers, 215 enlisted...
Turn of the Tide. But the battle had been won; the Jap was retiring. High overhead the Fortresses patrolled his fleeing fleet, nudging it along with bombs. The carriers took up the pursuit-all but one. The Yorktown was out of action. Against that 19,900-ton beauty the Jap had sent 18 dive-bombers. The fighters knocked down eleven. But three Jap planes got direct hits on the carrier. Torpedo planes followed, slammed her hard. The Yorktown heeled over into a list. Her flyers went to other carriers...
West of the Gilbert Islands, at least 5,000 miles southwest of Los Angeles, Japanese bombers attacked a task force, including a U.S. carrier identified by the Japanese as the Yorktown. Correspondent Francis McCarthy of the U.P. was on a heavy cruiser. "Only the term 'mass suicide' can describe the fate of the seven bombers that made up the first attacking wave," he wrote. "They approached this warship from starboard slightly astern at an estimated altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 feet...
...East. In less than an hour he had to make up his mind to do something that no sizable British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...