Product Description
Classic Warship Publishing has released a new book, the 44th in its Warship Pictorial line. This one focuses on CV-5, the legendary USS Yorktown of Coral Sea and Midway fame.
This book features 72 pages with over 85 images of this valiant carrier, including eight in original color on the end pages, pulled from a color film shot on Yorktown’s sister Hornet. There are five drawings in this volume, three of which are reproductions from Yorktown's Coral Sea and Midway damage reports.
The book is laid out familiar Classic Warship fashion, starting with a general history of “Old Yorky”, followed by the photographs. There are many excellent photos in this book, some of which I have never seen before, some of which I have seen, but are larger or of better quality than I’ve seen of those same photos in other books. This includes a great photo on Page 42 of Yorktown in Naval Base Norfolk in September 1941 (previously published in Cressman’s That Gallant Ship), sporting what appears to be a light grey spotting top. Steve says that is the remnants of her earlier Measure 1 camouflage. I was unaware that CV-5 ever wore Measure 1.
