The Yorktown, built during World War II, replaced its namesake that was lost at the historic Battle of Midway in 1942. It earned eleven battle stars in World War II, launching air strikes on Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Guam, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and Japan. It later served during the Vietnam War, and as the recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission. It went out of service in the 70s and is now a National Historic Landmark museum ship at Patriot’s Point in Mt. Pleasant. I made this photograph from the deck of the Fort Sumter ferry, comparing the mighty aircraft carrier to the pleasure boats moored in front of it. The scale incongruity is striking, while the masts of the boats in the foreground echo the vertical thrusts of the jet fighters on the deck of the aircraft carrier, as well as its towering mast.