Correct. That table looks to be accurate for February through May. After Lexington was hit, some of her aircraft landed on Yorktown, so post-battle you could have some of her birds on deck, but I don't recall how many or of what type.
Correct. That table looks to be accurate for February through May. After Lexington was hit, some of her aircraft landed on Yorktown, so post-battle you could have some of her birds on deck, but I don't recall how many or of what type.
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:10 am
TF17Greg
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Thank you Devin for your reply....
I did some extra research and l found out on this website http://www.wings-aviation.ch/24-Naval-W ... rktown.htm That Yorktown never had VT-2 (Cv2 Lexington) but had VT-5. So l need to change the markings...that should be side # before star
Please correct me if l'm wrong
Have a nice day Please check also the pics of the markings of the other markings of the other squadrons
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Thank you [b]Devin[/b] for your reply....
I did some extra research and l found out on this website http://www.wings-aviation.ch/24-Naval-Wings/1922/Air%20Group%20Yorktown.htm That Yorktown never had VT-2 (Cv2 Lexington) but had VT-5. So l need to change the markings...that should be side # before star
Please correct me if l'm wrong
Have a nice day Please check also the pics of the markings of the other markings of the other squadrons
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:47 am
Devin
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At Coral Sea, Yorktown's airgroups still had the insignia with the red dot, and the rudder stripes.
I don't know about the LSO stripe. Enterprise around this time and at Midway had those LSO stripes on her aircraft, as evidenced in many photos, but I can't recall seeing any Yorktown aircraft with them.
At Coral Sea, Yorktown's airgroups still had the insignia with the red dot, and the rudder stripes.
I don't know about the LSO stripe. Enterprise around this time and at Midway had those LSO stripes on her aircraft, as evidenced in many photos, but I can't recall seeing any Yorktown aircraft with them.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 7:47 am
TF17Greg
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Dear all l need your help... I have to do all the squadrons that were on Yorktown, this is the original post of CharlesRollinsWare Details for Yorktown are at Coral Sea are: (all BLACK and no LSO stripes) VF-42: SIDE large F-#, forward of Star; TAIL large # on forward fin VB-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star VS-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star; TAIL large S on forward fin VT-2: SIDE large T-# rear of star This is clear but l found some pictures of planes april/may 42...with these colors.... so l’m lost The star should be White and blue with red dot..or just white and blue??? The LSO stripes should be there or not??? Thank u in advance for your help
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Dear all l need your help... I have to do all the squadrons that were on Yorktown, this is the original post of [b]CharlesRollinsWare[/b] [i]Details for Yorktown are at Coral Sea are: (all BLACK and no LSO stripes) VF-42: SIDE large F-#, forward of Star; TAIL large # on forward fin VB-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star VS-5: SIDE large ##, rear of star; TAIL large S on forward fin VT-2: SIDE large T-# rear of star[/i] This is clear but l found some pictures of planes april/may 42...with these colors.... so l’m lost The star should be White and blue with red dot..or just white and blue??? The LSO stripes should be there or not??? Thank u in advance for your help
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2023 10:55 am
Captain Morgan
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taskforce48 wrote:
So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?
Matt
The only time Hornet and Yorktown were in the same port after December 1941 was May 27-28, 1942. TF-16, USS Hornet and USS Enterprise entered Pearl on May 26 and after refueling they sortied on May 28. On May 27 TF-17, USS Yorktown entered Pearl and entered drydock 1 for refit and repair. Yorktown exited drydock on May 30 and TF-17 left to rendezvous at point luck with TF 16 just prior to the battle of Midway. I believe Yorktown and Hornet were in Norfolk together when Hornet was commissioning but Yorktown was immediately transferred to the pacific fleet arriving before the end of 1941. At the end of April Hornet was at Pearl but Yorktown and Lexington were in Tonga staying close enough to be able to stop the IJN attack of Port Moresby at the battle of Coral Sea. The pictures you show should be from May 27, since it shows the enlisted crew in whites which I've seen in numerous book/publications of her entering Pearl after Coral Sea.
[quote="taskforce48"]So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?
Matt[/quote] The only time Hornet and Yorktown were in the same port after December 1941 was May 27-28, 1942. TF-16, USS Hornet and USS Enterprise entered Pearl on May 26 and after refueling they sortied on May 28. On May 27 TF-17, USS Yorktown entered Pearl and entered drydock 1 for refit and repair. Yorktown exited drydock on May 30 and TF-17 left to rendezvous at point luck with TF 16 just prior to the battle of Midway. I believe Yorktown and Hornet were in Norfolk together when Hornet was commissioning but Yorktown was immediately transferred to the pacific fleet arriving before the end of 1941. At the end of April Hornet was at Pearl but Yorktown and Lexington were in Tonga staying close enough to be able to stop the IJN attack of Port Moresby at the battle of Coral Sea. The pictures you show should be from May 27, since it shows the enlisted crew in whites which I've seen in numerous book/publications of her entering Pearl after Coral Sea.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2023 7:28 pm
taskforce48
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So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?
Matt
So if the Hornet is there, is this her returning from Coral Sea?
Matt
Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 12:21 am
Jeff Sharp
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Here are some views of YKTN entering Pearl in 1942.
Here are some views of YKTN entering Pearl in 1942.
Dear all l need your help l would like to put on the Carrier some signalisation flags and l found this code HX 2l have recieved serious damage below water line and these are flags, Could it be ok?
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Dear all l need your help l would like to put on the Carrier some signalisation flags and l found this code [b]HX 2[/b] [i]l have recieved serious damage below water line[/i] and these are flags, Could it be ok?
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 4:03 pm
TF17Greg
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Thanks Bill
Thanks [b]Bill[/b] :jump_1: :yeah:
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 2:28 am
William Smallshaw
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Greg,
Yes, the uptakes from the boilers were airtight to keep hot exhaust gases, from escaping the stack, exiting into the interior of the ship. They were most likely insulated as well to keep the gases hot as they went up the stack. Both aspects of the design, airtight and isolated, provided a proper draw of air through the boiler, increasing efficiency of the combustion.
Bill
Greg,
Yes, the uptakes from the boilers were airtight to keep hot exhaust gases, from escaping the stack, exiting into the interior of the ship. They were most likely insulated as well to keep the gases hot as they went up the stack. Both aspects of the design, airtight and isolated, provided a proper draw of air through the boiler, increasing efficiency of the combustion.
Bill
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:56 am
TF17Greg
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DavidP wrote:
yes as that is for the ship's funnel.
Thanks DavidP
[quote="DavidP"]yes as that is for the ship's funnel.[/quote] Thanks [b]DavidP[/b]
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:38 pm
TF17Greg
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Dear all l need your help...
I have to make the hangar and the kit makes it as a straight wall...but l saw in the Enterprise and the Hornet as a slope wall... so l found a picture of Yorktown’s hangar during the battle of Midway and it looks like also a slope wall... So my question is...am l seeing things or am l right?? Here are the pics and also you will see in the plans where the wall is the phrase "slope BLH a.t.” would this mean slope bulkhead airtight??? Thank you and have a nice evening Greg
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Dear all l need your help...
I have to make the hangar and the kit makes it as a straight wall...but l saw in the Enterprise and the Hornet as a slope wall... so l found a picture of Yorktown’s hangar during the battle of Midway and it looks like also a slope wall... So my question is...am l seeing things or am l right?? Here are the pics and also you will see in the plans where the wall is the phrase "slope BLH a.t.” would this mean slope bulkhead airtight??? Thank you and have a nice evening Greg
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:50 pm
ModelMonkey
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Mgunns wrote:
I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.
That sounds right. I remember that comment about the captain, too. The book was captivating so I'll be looking for it.
Thanks, Mark!
[quote="Mgunns"]I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.[/quote]
That sounds right. I remember that comment about the captain, too. The book was captivating so I'll be looking for it.
Thanks, Mark!
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:20 am
Mgunns
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ModelMonkey wrote:
Does anyone have the Robert Cressman book "That Gallant Ship: USS Yorktown CV-5"?
If memory serves (and it may not!), there is a passage in that book (pretty sure it is that book) that describes the crew being ordered to strip all of the paint from interior bulkheads and overheads during the transit back to Pearl Harbor after Lexington's loss at Coral Sea. I don't recall if the stripping included the hangar deck bulkheads and overhead but don't think so. I do remember reading that some anecdotal reports from Lexington survivors indicated that fires on Lex were being fed by the paint on bulkheads and overheads and very difficult to extinguish. So Yorktown's crew was highly motivated to get the job done rather than burn in fires fed by (dry) paint and worked very quickly. The manner of Lexington's loss was described in the book as scaring the hell out of Yorktown's crew. The passage described that the amount of paint being removed and shoveled overboard was considerable.
The book describes Yorktown's crew as a happy crew with great pride in their ship. Crewmembers are quoted as saying her captain violently and impressively maneuvered her "like a destroyer" when evading torpedoes and bombs at Coral Sea, so much so that the crew had difficulty in keeping their footing during sudden turns.
Can anyone confirm or deny I am thinking of the right book? It was one borrowed from a library many years ago and is no longer available there. It was an excellent, reasonably well-illustrated read and I'd like to own a copy of the book I remember, which I think was the Cressman book, but may be wrong.
The speed at which Yorktown's crew worked to remove the paint reminds me of an old Army story. People sometimes asked how long it takes to dig a foxhole through tough tree roots with a small entrenching tool. Generally, a very long time but the digging happens a lot quicker when people are shooting at you.
I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.
[quote="ModelMonkey"]Does anyone have the Robert Cressman book "That Gallant Ship: USS [i]Yorktown[/i] CV-5"?
If memory serves (and it may not!), there is a passage in that book (pretty sure it is that book) that describes the crew being ordered to strip all of the paint from interior bulkheads and overheads during the transit back to Pearl Harbor after [i]Lexington[/i]'s loss at Coral Sea. I don't recall if the stripping included the hangar deck bulkheads and overhead but don't think so. I do remember reading that some anecdotal reports from [i]Lexington[/i] survivors indicated that fires on [i]Lex[/i] were being fed by the paint on bulkheads and overheads and very difficult to extinguish. So [i]Yorktown[/i]'s crew was highly motivated to get the job done rather than burn in fires fed by (dry) paint and worked very quickly. The manner of [i]Lexington[/i]'s loss was described in the book as scaring the hell out of [i]Yorktown[/i]'s crew. The passage described that the amount of paint being removed and shoveled overboard was considerable.
The book describes [i]Yorktown[/i]'s crew as a happy crew with great pride in their ship. Crewmembers are quoted as saying her captain violently and impressively maneuvered her "like a destroyer" when evading torpedoes and bombs at Coral Sea, so much so that the crew had difficulty in keeping their footing during sudden turns.
Can anyone confirm or deny I am thinking of the right book? It was one borrowed from a library many years ago and is no longer available there. It was an excellent, reasonably well-illustrated read and I'd like to own a copy of the book I remember, which I think was the Cressman book, but may be wrong.
The speed at which [i]Yorktown[/i]'s crew worked to remove the paint reminds me of an old Army story. People sometimes asked how long it takes to dig a foxhole through tough tree roots with a small entrenching tool. Generally, a very long time but the digging happens a lot quicker when people are shooting at you.[/quote]
I believe the book you are referring to is "Crossing the Line". I am not 100 percent sure, but I remember the author remarking how prescient the CO was to have the paint removed. The author was a tail gunner on an SBD. If memory serves me correctly.
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:49 am
Ottawarignjig
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Thank you so much for the link and the info! This is infinitely helpful.
Thank you so much for the link and the info! This is infinitely helpful.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:05 pm
Timmy C
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Ottawarignjig wrote:
Why do some drawings of the ship show rigging extending from the bow to the top of the island and down to the stern? Was this always there? Is it just so fine a wire that it doesn’t show up in pictures?
If you look at a high-rez set of drawings, like these General Arrangement ones, you see that those lines are labelled "Dressing Lines". That means they're used when dressing the ship, i.e. putting all those little signal flags along it during special occasions for ceremonial purposes. They serve no real operational function and would be taken down in most circumstances.
[quote="Ottawarignjig"]Why do some drawings of the ship show rigging extending from the bow to the top of the island and down to the stern? Was this always there? Is it just so fine a wire that it doesn’t show up in pictures?[/quote] If you look at a high-rez set of drawings, like [url=https://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cv5.pdf]these General Arrangement ones[/url], you see that those lines are labelled "Dressing Lines". That means they're used when dressing the ship, i.e. putting all those little signal flags along it during special occasions for ceremonial purposes. They serve no real operational function and would be taken down in most circumstances.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:36 pm
Ottawarignjig
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Why do some drawings of the ship show rigging extending from the bow to the top of the island and down to the stern? Was this always there? Is it just so fine a wire that it doesn’t show up in pictures?
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