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Commanding Officer, Capt. William L. Bennett Captainls Message: Commanding the YORKTOWN through her twenty-fifth anniversary year has been a great experience for me. Long hours and hard work were required by all hands while preparing the Fighting Ladyw for sea and then sailing on our 1968 WestPac cruise. We accomplished both successfully only by working together as a team. It has taken everyone,s efforts for the YORKTOWN to maintain her constant vigil as a potent Ngrey diplomat for peace on the Western Pacific. Through our efforts, the YORKTOWN has retained an important role on the U.S. Navy teamg the greatest Naval force ever assembled on this globe. Only by maintaining this advantage can we protect world freedom and safeguard our American way of life.
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25 earn wifh .7lze openly On this, the Silver Anniversary of the Fighting Lady, one asks not for a regur- gitation of the Quartermaster's log, but for the answer to the question, '6What makes YORKTOWN's story significantffn To this there is but one reply: the men who sail her. It is they who are the life- blood of the ship and it is they who create rather than observe her history. YORK- TOWN sails the Pacific today as before, and her men share the same experiences as their 1943 counterparts. ln so doing, they write new chapters in a history as gallant and distinguished as ever recorded by any ship of the U.S. Navy. The very name itself is as old as the country which she serves. YORK- TOWN- the battle marking the defeat of the British in 1781 and the beginning of a new nation, the 16-gun sloop of war which sailed with the African Squadron from 1839 to 1850, the gunboat commis- sioned in 1889 which saw action in both the Spanish American Mwar and World War I, and the carriers whose men, through sweat and spirit, shaped the events of World War I1 and the lives of generation thereafter. 1 U. S. S. YORKLTOWN -i KEEL LAID 1 DECEMBER, 1941 LAUNCHED 21 IANUARY, 1943 MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT SPONSOR COMMISSIONED 15 APRIL, 1943 REAR ADMIRAL M. 1-1. SIMONS, U. S. N. Commcmdcmt, Filth Naval District CAPTAIN l. l. CLARK, U. S. N. Commanding Officer K r 1. I l
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