Yorktown arrived back in Long Beach on 5 July 1968 and entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard that same day for almost three months of repairs. She completed repairs on 30 September and resumed normal operations. Late in November and early in December, she served as a platform for the filming of another movie, "Tora! Tora! Tora!," which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In December she served as one of the recovery ships for the Apollo 8 space shot. The two unique missions mentioned above were conducted out of Pearl Harbor."
[Jeff again: Yes, that's right -- along with distinguished service in World War II, the Yorktown was filmed in the first joint Japan/US movie ever filmed, and it was about Pearl Harbor: "Tora, Tora, Tora!" This movie will be shown at 8:00 pm on Friday night onboard, and is almost three hours long, taking us right up to "Lights Out." Both the US and Japanese aircraft carriers seen in the movie, including the night launches of Japan Air Force Zeros which are one of the most dramatic parts of an otherwise fairly tedious movie, are all shots of the Yorktown. Then she sailed to pick up the astronauts who were the first to circle the moon, Apollo 8: Borman, Lovell, and Anders.]
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