She was employed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and search-and-rescue (SAR) work. Deployments to the Tonking Gulf were December 1964 to May 1965, February to July 1966, and March to June 1968. USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the oldest carrier (commissioned in 1943) to serve in the Vietnam war, and did not receive an angled-deck conversion. While all carriers are listed as “CV”, they actually were designated CVA, CVB, or CVS during their Vietnam tours. Short periods of rest were in Japan, Hong Kong, or the Philippines. Carriers were assigned to the western Pacific, and during each cruise spent several periods on “Yankee station” in the gulf of Tonkin. This is an overview of US aircraft carriers serving in the Vietnam war. This entry was posted in Technology and tagged History Vietnam on 24 December 2008 (updated 2400 days ago)
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