{"title":"USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eUSS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17): Named for a Visionary Admiral\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned on 2 February 1963, USS Harry E. Yarnell was the second Leahy-class guided missile cruiser, named for Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell. In 1932, Yarnell commanded a carrier force during Fleet Problem XIII and conducted a simulated surprise attack on Pearl Harbor launched from carriers operating north of Oahu on a Sunday morning. The exercise umpires ruled it a devastating success. The Navy's senior leadership, committed to the battleship as the decisive weapon, largely dismissed the result. Nine years later Japan proved Yarnell right at a cost of 2,403 American lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNaming a missile cruiser for Yarnell was fitting on multiple levels. He was a man who understood that technological change demanded doctrinal adaptation, and the Leahy-class ships bearing his legacy were precisely that kind of leap: all missiles, no guns, built for a threat environment that the wartime Navy could not have fully envisioned. The lesson Yarnell taught in 1932 finally got the monument it deserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarry E. Yarnell served through Cold War deployments that were the primary mission of the Leahy class: Mediterranean operations with Sixth Fleet, Western Pacific deployments with Seventh Fleet, carrier task force screening duties alongside the Essex and Forrestal-class carriers that defined American naval striking power through the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe was decommissioned on 2 February 1991, exactly 28 years to the day after commissioning. Tactically Acquired's USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17) collection honors the admiral whose insight predicted Pearl Harbor and the cruiser that carried his name through the Cold War that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/tacticallyacquired.com\/collections\/uss-harry-e-yarnell-cg-17-merchandise.oembed","provider":"Tactically Acquired","version":"1.0","type":"link"}