YORKTOWN’S END
RESOLUTE JAPANESE TORPEDO ATTACKS CLOSE APPROACH BY ENEMY PLANES. DESTROYER LOST IN SALVAGE ATTEMPT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. September’ 17. Disregarding fighter planes and terrific anti-aircraft fire, two Japanese torpedo planes approached within 500 yards of the Yorktown and dropped torpedoes from fifty or. a hundred feet, says a “New York Times” correspondent who witnessed the sinking of the aircraft-carrier. The first torpedo hit squarely amidships. The second apparently entered the hole made by the first, penetrating half-way through the ship, which came to a dead stop and slowly turned on her side. The order to abandon shin was given. Next day the ship was still afloat and plans were made to take her in tow. The destroyer Hamman arrived to attempt towing, but the Japanese fired three more torpedoes, sinking both the Yorktown and the Hamman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 4
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