USS Yorktown (CV-5)
Flight deck scene, during a lull in air operations while participating in Fleet Problem XX, February 1939. Planes are Grumman F2F-1 fighters, of Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5). That in the center, coded 5-F-2, is (9664). Note gun cameras mounted atop the planes' upper wings; signal flags flying; details of the ship's island; and large Y painted on her stack for identification purposes.
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
Flight deck scene, during a lull in air operations while participating in Fleet Problem XX, February 1939. Planes are Grumman F2F-1 fighters, of Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5). That in the center, coded 5-F-2, is (9664). Note gun cameras mounted atop the planes' upper wings; signal flags flying; details of the ship's island; and large Y painted on her stack for identification purposes.