Summary and Key Points: The USS Yorktown (CV-10), an Essex-class aircraft carrier nicknamed "Fighting Lady," earned 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation during World War II.

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

Another plane, sitting right side up, is thought to be a from a different American aircraft carrier that made an emergency landing on the Yorktown, Hartmeyer, of NOAA’s Ocean Exploration program ...

Finding aircraft actively involved ... More than 80 sailors aboard the Sims-class destroyer died in the attack. This image of an automobile on USS Yorktown first discovered during the April ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6) is by far the most decorated ship in the U.S. Navy to come out of World War II. It was originally commissioned in 1938 as a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and it would ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7)entered service in 1940. It was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier and was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean at the onset of America's engagement in World War II. While supporting ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the USS Yorktown on April 19 and 20, the agency said in a news release. The 806-foot-long aircraft carrier, nicknamed the "Fighting ...

The USS Yorktown retrieved two Enterprise aircraft that were damaged in an attack on the Japanese carrier Kaga, according to the agency, citing records. The planes were moved down to the hangar ...