Yorktown: Why She Matters Today

Yorktown Class- Aircraft Carriers: Shipcraft 3 by Rogar Chesneau

The subject of this volume is the Yorktown class, the near-legendary American aircraft carriers that kept the Japanese at bay in the dark days between Pearl Harbor and the decisive battle of Midway, where Yorktown hereself was lost. Hornet launched the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan before being sunk at Santa Cruz in October 1942, but Enterprise surived the fierce fighting of the early war years to become the US Navy’s most decorated ship. With its unparalleled level of visual information-paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs-it is simply the best references for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous carriers.

I am thinking about doing a “Why She Matters Today” book on a WW2 aircraft carrier, either Yorktown or Enterprise.

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