On May 27, 1942, the carrier Yorktown, severely damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea, pulled into port and was immediately swarmed upon by more than 1,400 workers.

TF17 was initially centered on the carrier Yorktown.

His appearance on March 30, 1961, was a patriotic program set at sea on the United States naval carrier Yorktown, oddly foreshadowing his later role on McHale's Navy.

At 10:25 AM while preparing to launch a second strike against an American carrier group, she was attacked by thirteen SBD Dauntless dive bombers from the American carrier Yorktown.

Although the carrier Yorktown is damaged, the Japanese lose four carriers and many of their best-trained pilots, and the Japanese naval advantage is eliminated, ending the threat to Australia.

But it was still floating when Lieutenant Commander Houck, in command of more than 40 planes on the carrier Yorktown, went aloft in his Hellcat fighter.

Gwin sent a salvage party to assist in attempts to save carrier Yorktown (CV-5), heavily damaged by two bomb and two torpedo hits in the Battle of Midway.

Hughes then sailed from Samoa as part of a carrier striking force built around carrier Yorktown.

In World War II Admiral Anderson helped the Navy's huge expansion of its air arm and participated in strikes in the Pacific as a navigator on the second carrier Yorktown.

But then the American carrier Yorktown was located, and he decided to change his aircraft's armament back to torpedoes and attempt to sink it.