Maritime Disasters of WWII - Vietnam Veterans of America

The aircraft included the Dauntless, Devastator and Wildcat. In all, the Americans lost 72 planes. The Yorktown was the only casualty of the US Task Forces, three bombs from a Japanese dive bomber reduced the carrier to a derelict wreck and when two torpedoes hit the vessel causing a 26-degree list, the order to abandon ship was given. ................
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