 Despite estimates that Yorktown , damaged in the Battle of the Coral Sea , would require several months of repairs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard , her elevators were intact and her flight deck largely so . The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard worked around the clock , and in 72 hours she was restored to a battle @-@ ready state , judged good enough for two or three weeks of operations , as Nimitz required . Her flight deck was patched , whole sections of internal frames were cut out and replaced . Repairs continued even as she sortied , with work crews from the repair ship USS Vestal , herself damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor six months earlier , still aboard . 
