USS Yorktown: The (Nearly) Unsinkable Carrier
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- USS Yorktown (CV-5) is the topic of today's video. In spite of being as much a compromise design as any pre-war carrier, Yorktown would prove to be incredibly tough and well-designed in actual service. Her career was short, but the legacy she laid down would endure long past her sinking.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Design Process
7:41 - Service History
11:12 - Coral Sea
13:36 - Midway
19:32 - Ending
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My favorite ship of WW2. There should be a new CVN named Yorktown!!!
The sisters need to be reunited.
Don’t forget hornet and wasp
Dad was an EM1 on Yorktown. We began going to reunions 1977 up to 1996 I have a few tools of her in my tool box.Met hundreds of the crew.The stories I heard were amazing.Miss you Guys😢
Word on the street is that CVN82 might be named the Yorktown❤
@@model-man7802 that Yorktown was an Essex class carrier built after the first Yorktown (Yorktown class) went down at midway. She took a lot of killing. The essex's were based on the Yorktown, just a little bigger with improvements such as a deck edge elevator. The Yorktown class was 3 ships, Yorktown CV-5, Enterprise CV-6, and Hornet CV-8. With wasp, a much smaller carrier built to the same design and sometimes called the little Yorktown
A ship that is always remembered. She deserved a better fate than she received. RIP hero ship.
Yorktown/Midway..... That's how I remember it . 4 enemy carriers/ destroyed. 🇺🇲👍
IMO, Yorktown was lost because of the inept leadership of the wing commander aboard the Hornet.
Had the Hornet's planes not flown in the wrong direction (as ordered by the commander), all 4 IJN carriers would have been overwhelmed, and possibly sunk or completely disabled.
Hornet's commander's were totally inexperienced,
and too arrogant and stubborn to let Enterprise and Yorktown air wing's lead/control the Hornet's aircraft.
I won't put it all on Mitcher but he had role. The real issue was a lack of training operating together. This continued up to 44. By then fighter cap control was done by one small group of officers trained for radar intercept control.they were onboard the flagship in CIC. Pilots also largely learned radio discipline.
Sounds like Cmdr Scott (Trek Enterprise 1701) was in charge of the repair crews at Pearl - "it'll take at least 3 months for repairs Sir ..... but you haven't got 3 months, so we'll get it done in 2 days!"
CV-10 is next to DD-724 Laffey the ship that would not die.
There was a movie that showed a carrier listing onto port while docking and the navy band on the port played anchors away, only to be drowned out by the band on the ship drowning them out. Very inspiring but I misremember the name of the movie.
Most large ships are nearly unsinkable.
Remember.. only one or maybe two of the Japanese carriers at Midway actually sunk. It’s just that they were so heavily damaged so far away from home that there was no way to salvage them. Same with USS Hornet.. which wouldn’t even go down after the US Navy fired many torpedoes and hundreds of 5 inch shells into her.
By the time of the USS Franklin and USS Bunker Hill.. US Naval power was supreme so there was little risk to tow or sail them back to the US for repairs even over great distances.
Both She & Hornet Caught It By The IJN 😓
You could argue that the Yorktowns put the US Navy onto the path that culminated into the Nuclear powered super carriers.
Remember CVA-14, Ticonderoga.
The internal damage having nott been repaired, her water tight integrity was very much in doubt. This is a big part of why they abandoned so quickly. Even the firebricks around the boilers were damaged. They were further damaged ar Midway.
Great vid Skynea. Do you have more information on that Scheme J?
Sir....when the enemy tried to land on Yorktown.....be advised....that the 1mc sounded off by someone...prepare to repel boarders...
The Essex’s basically won the war (laid the final nail in the coffin to be more precise) but the Yorktown’s more than held there own.
Specifically they moved the nail into position
Had they not built a single Essex, but instead kept building Yorktowns, the outcome of the war would have been little changed. The Yorktowns broke the Japanese and made their defeat all but inevitable.
I disagree, respectfully, the Yorktowns broke the back of the IJN. The Essex’s finished putting the dirt on the grave.
The enterprise alone defeated japan to be honest
The Essex's were never tested in the way the Yorktowns were. The Yorktowns in the first year of the war faced much more challenging numerical odds against the Japanese carriers and the Japanese air groups that they fought were much better trained than the replacements that the U.S. carriers would face after 1942.
Yes!!
With the exception of the Shokakus (and even then, they were more evenly matched rivals than anything else), the Yorktowns were overall the most capable warships in the Pacific up until 1943.
Then came, as Drach says, the Essex Swarm.
Can you do a video on the ship the USS TWIGGS- The Ship History Forgot?
I would agree, if they had armoured decks.
Totally different designs. Compare Essex class and the Midway class
Check out: "Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway"
Why do you think she is less well known to history? Enterprise only edges out because she survived the war. Both have very well known & recorded histories.
Excuse me? USS Enterprise is more famous because she earned more battle stars than any other American ship in WW II, took enough damage to be reported sunk by Tokyo Rose 6 times...
And, for a short while, was the ONLY operational US carrier at the front. She was our answer to HMS Warspite...
A ship too angry to die.
@@johngregory4801 sadly her peoples disregard was enough to finally shatter her spirit. She should be still at port being boarded by museum goers. For all the lives she saved, a country she defended until her end it wasn’t enough. We failed her.
@@mknewlan67 Even Bull Halsey couldn't save her.
My dad Benjamin Thomas Alger was a CPO on the Yorktown. I'm the last of the baby boomers. The last of 8. My oldest brother was born in 1947 and I was born in 1963. Thanks to all military past, present and future. I have a question to all, what does CV 49 stand for? My dad had a hat he made or something and it had a duck with ship boats and the cv 49 or some other number on it.
CVL-49 USS Wright.
"USS Wright (CVL-49/AVT-7) was a Saipan-class light aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, later converted to the command ship CC-2. It is the second ship named "Wright". The first Wright (AV-1) was named for Orville Wright; the second honored both Wright brothers: Orville and Wilbur."
Myth dispelling time: close examination of the evidence shows that the IJN carriers did NOT have strikes spotted on their flight decks when the dive bombers finally arrived to seal their fate. The Japanese flight decks were FAR too busy launching and recovering CAP fighters due to the repeated waves of US land- and carrier-based air attacks during the morning to spot their strikes. Their hangar decks, however, were jammed full of armed and fueled planes, unstowed ordnance, and fully pressurized refueling systems. This is evidenced by the famous photo you show at 15:28 of Soryu skillfully maneuvering to avoid bombs dropped by a flight of B-17s out of Midway (she dodged them all THAT time) - there are NO planes visible on her flight deck. As it happened, the dive bombers ultimately put their payloads right through the flight decks of their targets, which caused all hell to break loose within their hangar decks. They burned for the better part of a day until the Japanese scuttled them with torpedoes.
Also, it's likely that too much emphasis has been placed on the heroic but doomed attacks by the American torpedo squadrons having pulled the Japanese CAP fighters down to low altitude, while their major contribution to the outcome of the battle has been largely overlooked. Yes, they did pull the fighter cover down, but the Kido Butai kept launching more Zeros into the sky right up to the moment before their flight decks became scrap. Where the Devastators, B-17s, and other "unsuccessful" attacks succeeded was in forcing the Kido Butai to maneuver evasively throughout the early hours of the fight, constantly breaking up their formations and badly disrupting their flight operations.
Source and HIGHLY recommended reading: "Shattered Sword." Happy Independence Day!
Well I guess no matter how much science and technology you put in to it. When it's out of luck, it doesn't last long.
Essex class were the ships the Navy would have built if not for the treaties
Uss johnston
if an enemy plane wants to land on your carrier, let them. hopefully the landing signal officer speaks Japanese (paddles?)
Compare the damage she took to HMS Ark Royal. USN's water tight untegrity was better than just about anything!
Now compare her to the Illustrious.
ILBTs!
Remember CV-11 INTREPID!
I really enjoy your historic videos. But at 15:20 you say that the IJN had strike forces fully fueled and armed on their flight decks. That is false. You are a smart guy but you need to some research on that. Keep up your work good though.
Oh I didn't know u was there n can dispute the report..
Read the book 'Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway'
The jap sub commander was skillfully in his attack. 2 ships sunk with great torpedoes.