Daily Photo – DE238 USS Stewart

March 8, 2012
Travel

DE238 USS Stewart (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in Houston.

Daily Photo – USS Yorktown

February 27, 2012
Travel

USS Yorktown CV-10 (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the US Navy. Commissioned in April 1943, she saw action in the Pacific, replacing CV-5 (also named USS Yorktown) lost at the Battle of Midway. She was build in just sixteen-and-a-half months!