Tamiya 1/700 USS Yorktown CV-5 31712The USS Yorktown was completed in September 1937 as the first ship of her namesake class and the U. S. Navy's sixth aircraft carrier. When the Pacific War broke out, she became the flagship of Task Force 17 under the command of Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher and conducted a number of operations around the Pacific. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, she helped thwart the Japanese Navy's advance on New Guinea despite suffering severe