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Photo #: 80-G-462977 USS Yorktown (CV-5) At the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, in June 1937, while preparing for sea trials. Note her chrome yellow flight deck markings, applied over maroon-stained douglas fir deck planking. USS Enterprise (CV-6) is fitting out in the drydock in upper center. USS Boise (CL-47) is two piers over from Yorktown, also fitting out. Several merchant ships are also present. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 139KB; 615 x 675 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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31 March 1999