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Battle of Okinawa Memorial Held 70 Years After Kamikaze Attack on USS Laffey
Posted: Apr 21, 2015On Thursday, April 16, 2015, seven World War II veterans who served in the Okinawa campaign assembled on the fantail of the USS Yorktown overlooking the USS Laffey to remember […]
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Japanese bomb and Ghost bomb strike Yorktown!!!
Posted: Mar 18, 2009Sixty four years ago on 18 March while conducting operations off Okinawa, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was struck by a Japanese bomb at 1507 (3:07 PM) when a Judy dive […]