This is Yorktown, CV-10, an Essex-class carrier, not the Yorktown (CV-5) lost at Midway. She was laid down at Newport News on 1 December 1941 as Bon Homme Richard and renamed Yorktown on 26 September 1942, in tribute to the carrier lost at Midway. She was launched on 21 January 1943, sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, and commissioned at Norfolk on 15 April 1943, Captain Joseph J. Clark in command.
She reached Pearl Harbor on 24 July 1943 and struck Marcus Island on 31 August and Wake Island on 5 and 6 October. In November she took part in the Gilberts operation and made passing raids on Wotje and Kwajalein on 4 December. On 16 January 1944 she left Pearl Harbor for Operation Flintlock. With Task Group 58.1, her sister carriers Lexington and Cowpens, she began striking Taroa on Maloelap on 29 January 1944, shifted to Kwajalein on 30 January, and supported the troops who went ashore on 31 January until the first days of February. On 4 February the group went into Majuro.
She then struck Truk on 16 and 17 February, Saipan on 22 February, Palau on 30 and 31 March and Woleai on 1 April, and supported the Hollandia landings on 21 to 23 April before raiding Truk again on 29 and 30 April. In the Marianas she hit Guam airfields and the Bonins in June. In the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 June her aircraft claimed 37 enemy planes destroyed, and on 20 June her planes attacked Admiral Ozawa's force and scored hits on Zuikaku, which did not sink. DANFS records no confirmed sinking for her air group. After an overhaul at Puget Sound she joined Task Group 38.1 and struck the Philippines in support of Leyte in November 1944.
The DANFS text read for this account ends its 1944 narrative there. Her service at Okinawa and off Japan in 1945 is in DANFS and NavSource and is not set out here. She was decommissioned on 9 January 1947, rebuilt to the SCB-27A design at Puget Sound and recommissioned in February 1953, and decommissioned again on 27 June 1970. She was struck on 1 June 1973, donated as a museum and memorial, and turned over to the Patriots Point Development Authority of South Carolina on 8 May 1975. She was dedicated at Patriots Point in Charleston Harbor on 13 October 1975, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on 14 January 1986.