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USS Yorktown (CV-5)

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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="margin-left:5px"|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:USSYorktown1.jpg|thumb|300px]]|right-!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USS ''Yorktown'' (CV-5)|-!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:US Naval Jack 48 stars.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]|-|-| Laid down:| 21 May 1934|-| Launched:| 4 April 1936|-| Commissioned:| 30 September 1937|-| Struck:| 2 October 1942|-| Fate:| Sunk; [[Battle of Midway]]|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics|-| Displacement:| 19,800-25,500 tons|-| Length:| 809 feet 6 inches|-| Beam:| 83 feet 3 inches (waterline), <br/>109 feet 6 inches (flight deck)|-| Draft:| 25 feet 11.5 inches|-| Propulsion:| 9 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers,4 × Parsons geared turbines,120,000 shp (90 MW)4 × screws|-| Speed:| 32.5 knots|-| Complement:| 2,217 officers and men|-| Armament:| 8 × single 5 inch 38 caliber guns4 × quad 1.1 inch 75 caliber machine guns24 × .50 caliber machine guns|-| Aircraft:| 90|} 
'''USS ''Yorktown''''' was the 5th fleet carrier in the [[United States Navy]], and played a pivitol role in [[World War II]] during the [[Battle of the Coral Sea]], preventing a Japanese thrust against Port Moresby and Australia, and following that engagement, helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific during the [[Battle of Midway]].
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