Yorktown (CVS 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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CVS-IO The fourth ship of War to fiat, the proud 'lame YQRKTQVVXEH war II, second tonsf?6,IeiIr21riqcCeXiVnN slid down the tfl1SyDSrersGIa?1uilrlHe1943, seven minutes aheagifigihllalljyi designated HS tllllibflolil Homme Ric ard, YORKTUW f flint her proud name in honor o 1-ii gallant third YORKTOWN lost at Ida Battle of Midway in 1942. Qll1C Y earning a reputation for excellence, YORKTOWN's first war-cruise was preserved for posterity in the film The Fighting LHdY - . The World War II record of this, the fourth YORKTOWN included bat- tle action at Marcus, Trulc, the Ph1hp- pine invasion, the Marianas, Guam andthe battle for the Homelslands . YORKTOWN roamed the P8C1f1C'8f wilt, launching her aircraft against enemy shipping, aircraft and shore in- stallations. When the smoke cleared and the final tally was made, YORK- TOWN's team had accounted for 2,358 enemy aircraft destroyed, ordam ed, 119 surface craft sunk and 329 aged. Over 244,770 tons of enemy s 'pping lies at the bottom of the ocean in tribute to the professionalism of the YORKTOWN team. The sinking ofthe giant battleship Yamato was due in paavt tom tlgs teiam, it t e a vent of eace, - TOVVN spread her Mggic Cgrgdlli re tuning more than ' the United States. 10,000 men to YO RKTOWN rested in the reserve fleet from 1947 until the war trumpets sounded in Korea. From April 1952 until the armistice, YORKT . OWN d her aQf5mT861arded the allied forciiels ufaceslifen .WN received a major modifi d III' 1958 when she was e to suit her - submarine warfare Pillai?-ng role' anu- Dl0ytnents to the liar East Qvelaldlie- zzaacfirtei-iwa S.....tfa.i.a's, capture. fifea.9SefeSP1f of the Pueblo is 8 Ladyu the if .X . X . I hip USS YORKTOWN was chosen as the prime recovery ship for the tlhristmas 1968 moon-girdling flight of Agollo YORKTOWN left Long lloac , tiall- fornia in November 1968. On December 27, Astronauts Frank Borman, james l.ovell and Wil- liam Anders piloted their Apollo tl spacecraft to within 3,000 yards of YORKTOWN, thus writin a close to their 10-orbit flight around the moon. After returning to l.ong lieach to bid adieu to her Pacific lfleet home of 26 years, YORKTUWN left the west coast for her present homeport, Nor- folk, on Ianuary 21, 1969. Arriving home on February 28, after round- ing Cape Horn, YURKTCJVVN joined the Atlantic Fleet, opening a new chap- ter in her history. Although a newcomer to the At- lantic Fleet, YORKTKJWN has shown herself an effective addition to the Atlantic team. ln the short span of a few months, YORKT! JWN participate-tl 1IliW0 NATO exercises, fil'AltKl'l.l lt: and PEACH Klililllilt, serve-tl as thi- P1l0i Ship for a newly fcirmulntt-tl Operational readiness testing program and has cruised the lpasterii Atlantic That CTUISC and YtlltK'l'tlWNs nwii f0I'In the DUClf3t.lS til this lmtila HISTORY 4

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CARDIV-I6 Carrier Division SIXTEEN was established in April. 1958 and tasked with the development of antisubmarine tactics, doctrine and ecgiipment in order to im rove the antisu marine warfare lASlflll readiness of the fleet. . Numerous existing tywes of air, surface and subsurface AS craft are employed in performing the CARDIV mission. New and improved weapons systems are constantly integrate into the ASW team, toget er with newly developed tactics encompassingthe fu l spectrum of the ASW concept. CARDIV SIXTEEN flagships have included the carriers VALLEY FORGE, RANDOLPH, ESSEX, INTREPID, LAKE CHAMPLAIN, WASP and YORKTOWN. In addition to partici- pating in major Atlantic Fleet exercises, CARDIV SIXTEEN took part in the Project Mercury and Gemini recoveries of astronauts Virgil Grissom, Iohn Glen and Scott Carpenter as well as the space chimpcs Enos and I-lam. Since embar ing aboard YORK- TOWN on February 28, 1969, CAR- DIV SIXTEEN has participated in two ASW exercises, PEACE - KEEPER and SPARKPLUG. - Under the command of Rear Ad- 'Wal L Iflpyd ABBOT. USN, the car- rier Division SLYTEEN EASTLANT team was composed of both aviation and surface units including the YORK- TOWN with her fixed-wing, helicopter and jet aircraft the fleet oil W - ' er acc the destroyers, Trawall, Barr? CVS-56 Commissioned May 26, 1959, Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group FIF- TY-SIX ICVSG-561 is composed of Antisubmarine Squadrons TWENTY- FOUR and TWENTY-SEVEN CVS-24 and VS-271 as well as Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron THREE IHS-31. In addition, embarked de- tachments of Airborne Early Warn- ing Squadron ONE TWENTY-ONE IVAW-1211 and AntisubmarineFight- er Squadron ONE LVSF-11 augment the air roup in order to provide a balancetf, versatile team. First embarked in the USS VAL- LEY FORGE fcvs45J, cvsc-se participated in Project Mercury, the initial U. S. Man in Space pro- gram. In 1962, the air group was assigned to the USS ESSEX ICVS-91 and later to the USS INTREPID LCVS-111. The air group represented y the commanding o ficer of HS-3, performed the first helico ter re- covery of an astronaut when the LCDR lnow Capt. ret.J Scott Gar- p enter was hoisted aboard. The Cuban missile crisis found units of CVSG-56 at Key West, Fla., Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and aboard the USS INTREPID fcvsui and Uss WASP fcvsisy during the Deriod 1962-1963. March 1967 found the air group transferred to the USS RANDOLPH ICVS-151. March 1969 saw them move aboard their present home, USS YORKTOWN ICVS-101. The same month saw HS-3 again enter the Man in Space program when her commanding officer recovered the Apollo 9 crew. CVSG-56 search and attack air- craft are among the most modern antisubmarine aircraft in the world. In addition to the S-2E, and SH-3D flown by the air group, E-1B and A-4O detachments served as mem- bers of the team. The entire aircraftpackage, S-2E, SH-3D, A-4O and E-1B, provided the YORKTOWN and Carrier Division SIXTEEN with an antisubmarine search, detection and attack cap- ability, long range radar detection, an airborne radar search and an airborne air control and intercept capability. Truly a versatile group, Carrier Antisubmarine Air Group FIFTY-SIX served as a proud member of the YORKTOWN team.