Talk:USS Yorktown (CV-5)

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This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

OK first of all, alot of this article seems to be ripped off from http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv05-yorktown/cv05-yorktown.html

Many paragraphs have been directly copied.

the error mentioned later in this passage was also copied Rekov 20 May 2006

Pics of Yorktowns wreckage should be displayed.

I-168 sunk her. NOT I-158 See combinedfleet.com

Veljko Stevanovich 25. 11. 2005. 19:30 UTC+1

[edit] Length

This article is rather long. I don't suggest that material be removed, but rather that work be done to divide it into more sections and otherwise organize it.--Lewk_of_Serthic 01:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)