A family of four walking on a bridge away from the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier.
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1st week of December 1941

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The first week of December 1941 changed our nation forever. On 01 December the keel of USS Yorktown (then USS Bon Homme Richard) was laid at Newport News shipbuilding in Newport News, VA.  Six days later the Japanese imperial navy attacked Pearl Harbor and the nation was at war.

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