I Love Kit Ships 1/350 US Navy WW2 Aircraft Carrier USS Yorktown CV-5 Kit

USS Yorktown construction began in 1934, launched in 1936, 1937. And after USS Yorktown in the last two of the Navy Fleet problem-solving exercises, and in 1940 in the battle force in the pacific. After the Second World War broke out, the United States in Europe are a neutral cruise, and USS Yorktown in 1941 April transferred back to the Atlantic fleet, against Nazi Germany Navy into the Western Hemisphere attacked a merchant ship. In December the same year the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, USS Yorktown was transferred to the United States Pacific Fleet, and participated in the United States in the Pacific war field operations, including protection Corps reinforcements in American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Gilbert islands raid and the battle of the coral sea.

In 1942 in the battle of Midway, the Japanese navy in the battle of hit USS Yorktown, forcing the Americans to give up to save, USS Yorktown eventually capsized at sea.