Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.

Also searchable as USS Yorktown CV5.

Related time notes

  1. 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers
    1:49:08Sims paired Mark 37 fire control with an experimental machinery layoutChapter
  2. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    17:24The US Navy's precarious position before MidwayChapter
  3. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    21:28Midway lessons for fighters, torpedo bombers, and screensChapter
  4. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    33:12From cautious pursuit to strategic reversal at MidwayChapter
  5. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:36:16The difference between emergency repair and a full refitQ&A
  6. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:17:00If Lexington survived the Coral SeaQ&A
  7. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:49:40Would skipping Tulagi improve the Coral Sea ambush?Q&A
  8. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:56:08Yorktown survives Midway but misses the Guadalcanal carrier battlesQ&A
  9. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:00:25American concentration and Yorktown's 72-hour repairChapter
  10. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:03:42Task Force 16 and 17 divided scarce escortsNotable Point
  11. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    2:00:25The tradeoff in combining the American carriersNotable Point
  12. Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:18:48Midway without USS YorktownQ&A
  13. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:23:56Why a surviving Yorktown would be repairedQ&A
  14. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    25:22Where the American carriers were on 4 DecemberNotable Point
  15. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    1:02:50Midway carrier losses and air-group attritionChapter
  16. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    1:05:52Soryu's fueled hangars turn bomb hits into a ship-killing fireNotable Point
  17. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    1:07:53Hiryu's last airworthy aircraft and forward flight-deck collapseNotable Point
  18. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:42:07Yorktown restores power and flight operations after bomb damageNotable Point
  19. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:51:37Yorktown launches nearly empty fighters before the torpedo attackNotable Point
  20. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:54:17Hammann's loss and depth charges undo Yorktown's salvage workNotable Point
  21. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    1:58:16Yorktown's final salute and Walter Lord's accountNotable Point
  22. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    2:00:17Yorktown and the point when salvage risk outweighs recoveryNotable Point
  23. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    42:03Coral Sea tests Lexington's wartime carrier valueNotable Point
  24. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:29:41Yorktown turns first-strike doctrine into ship designChapter
  25. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    1:14:32Carrier readiness and aircraft numbers reshape the Taranto planNotable Point
  26. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    24:23Why the first raids attacked manageable targetsChapter
  27. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    48:40The carriers, air groups, and machinery behind the raidsChapter
  28. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    2:12:32Marshall and Gilbert raids expose the Japanese perimeterChapter
  29. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    2:52:00The Salamaua-Lae strike crosses New GuineaChapter
  30. USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response
    17:08How Pearl Harbor salvage accelerated carrier repairQ&A
  31. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    16:01From Yorktown to the Midway classNotable Point
  32. Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat
    27:49Yorktown with the Asiatic FleetQ&A
  33. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    2:14:59Midway's withdrawal and the losses after the carrier battleChapter
  34. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:32:48Sending Yorktown east might have concentrated Japanese escortsQ&A
  35. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    1:03:02Yorktown-class aviation strength outgrew its command spacesNotable Point
  36. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:22:28Yorktown and Enterprise saved weight in the wrong structureChapter
  37. Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?
    23:20Portland screens carriers at Coral SeaChapter
  38. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    3:12:27Would the US Navy still have wanted HMS Victorious?Q&A
  39. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:23:45Yorktown or Wasp against Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
  40. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 3
    16:28The Yorktown class organizes a ninety-aircraft strikeChapter
  41. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    2:55:34Ranger, Soryu, Yorktown, and Enterprise refine fleet carriersChapter
  42. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    9:12Task Force 17: ships, movement, and weather at Coral SeaNotable Point
  43. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    12:07Coral Sea carrier air groups and usable striking powerNotable Point
  44. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    22:22Concentrating an Allied battle fleetChapter