Trumpeter 1/200 Yorktown CV-5 Plastic Model Kit [03711]

Lead ship of theYorktown:class of purpose-built US Navy aircraft carriers, three battle stars, lost in the Battle of Midway in June 1942.

YORKTOWN(CV-5) was laid down in 1934, launched in 1936 and commissioned in 1937. Following its shakedown cruise in 1938,YORKTOWNengaged in exercises simulating attacks on theUSEast Coast. Joining the Pacific Fleet in 1939, tactical exercises continued in 1940, centered on the defence of theHawaiian islandsin the North Pacific.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, YORKTOWN became the flagship of aircraft carrier Task Force 17, targeting Imperial Japanese Navy garrisons in theMarshalland Gilbert Islands in February 1942, and engaging IJN shipping in theCoral Seain May 1942.

Returning to Pearl Harbor with severe bomb damage that would take 3 months to repair,YORKTOWNwas back at sea after only 3 days, to mount an attack on the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway in June 1942.