 The Yorktown crew did a tremendous job immediately going into action, putting out fires, rebuilding the flight deck which was still damaged. They were struck by a bomb at Coral Sea, which hit the most center in the flight deck. Japanese already believed that Yorktown was gone. Yorktown was able to make it back to Pearl Harbor. Nimitz had repairs rushed three days and he had the ship gone back up the midway. It's a little heartbreaking that Yorktown eventually was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank along with the destroyer Hanman during battle in these combat circumstances where you have bombs and torpedoes going off all around you. These guys were able to make effective repairs and put out the fires and keep the ship steaming.