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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42343

USS Yorktown (CV-5)


Sponsor, Eleanor (Mrs. Franklin D.) Roosevelt, prepares to christen the ship, during launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 4 April 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 April 1999