Fleet Aircraft Carrier
Yorktown-class
3
Ships Built
1937–1941
Commissioned
25,500 t
Displacement
827 ft
Length
~2,200
Crew
Three carriers that bore the heaviest cost of the Pacific War's turning point. Yorktown absorbed punishment at Coral Sea and Midway before going down fighting. Enterprise became The Big E — the most decorated US Navy ship of the war. Hornet launched the Doolittle Raid before her loss at Santa Cruz.
