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Photo #: NH 95551

USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Returns to Pearl Harbor, 6 February 1942, after the Marshalls-Gilberts Raids.
Photographed from USS Enterprise (CV-6). This view shows the Measure 12, Graded System, camouflage that Yorktown received in late 1941. Also seen is the external degaussing cable that was installed on her hull just below the deck edge. The hull number ("5") has not yet been painted on her side, just aft of the anchor. All those features were observed when the ship was examined, at a depth of some three miles, on 20 May 1998, though her bow hull structure was heavily distorted.
The superstructure of USS Saratoga, then undergoing repairs for torpedo damage, is visible in the right center background.

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1 April 1999