Article number: 300031712
Product: 1/700 WL Aircraft Carrier USS Yorktown CV-5
The 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 damage. Subsequently, at the Battle of Midway,
the Yorktown and her sister ships USS Enterprise and USS Hornet defeated
the Japanese Mobile Fleet, but the Yorktown herself suffered severe
damage by torpedo and bomb hits from the aircraft of the Japanese
carrier Hiryu. She was finally sunk by torpedoes from the Japanese
submarine I-168. The Tamiya 1/700 scale model is a precise replica assembly kit of this iconic carrier during WWII.
