USS Yorktown (CV-10) was a 27,100-ton Essex class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down on December 1, 1941 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Bon Homme Richard. On September 26, 1942, she was renamed to commemorate Yorktown (CV-5), which was lost at the Battle of Midway. The ship was launched on January 21, 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and commissioned on April 15, 1943.

After shakedown, Yorktown transited the Panama Canal on July 11, 1943 to join the war against Japan. She arrived in Pearl Harbor on July 24 and began a month of exercises in the Hawaiian Islands. On August 22, she stood out of Pearl Harbor, bound for her first combat of the war. She arrived at the launching point about 128 miles from Marcus Island early on the morning of August 31, and spent most of the day launching fighter and bomber strikes on the island before returning to Hawaii that evening.

During the rest of 1943, Yorktown took part in a raid on Wake Island and in the Gilberts operation. From late January to May 1944, she was one of the carriers that covered landings in the Marshall Islands and western New Guinea, and generally battered Japanese forces throughout the central Pacific. In June 1944, her planes attacked Saipan and Guam and hit the carrier Zuikaku during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. From June to July, she struck other targets in the Marianas, the Bonins and Volcano Islands.

On January 9, 1947, Yorktown was placed out of commission and remained in reserve for almost five years. On February 20, 1953, she was placed in full commission and conducted normal operations along the west coast through most of the summer of 1953. On June 27, 1970, she was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was berthed with the Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She remained there for almost three years before her name was struck from the Navy list on June 1, 1973. She was towed from Bayonne, New Jersey to Charleston, South Carolina in June 1975 and was formally dedicated as a memorial on the 200th anniversary of the Navy on October 13, 1975.

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