News & Events
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CXAM Radar On Yorktown CV-5 Leads To IFF And CIC
Posted: Mar 28, 2011Following successful tests of the XAF radar, the Navy contracted with RCA (Radio Corporation of America) to build six more radars and they would be placed on one aircraft carrier […]
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National Medal of Honor Day
Posted: Mar 25, 2011In recognition of National Medal of Honor Day, Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum joins the people of South Carolina and Americans across the country in celebrating the achievements […]
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Video Thursday 3.24.11 American Tomcats, Russian Sukhoi and French Super Entendard!
Posted: Mar 24, 2011This is the Centennial Year of Naval Aviation in the United States, and naval aviators have been flying onto (traps) and launching (cats) from ships for over 100 years. It […]
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Aircraft Carrier March Madness, 3.23.11!
Posted: Mar 23, 2011Yorktown defeated Tarawa 53-10, second round action finds Yorktown in a battle with active duty carrier Abraham Lincoln. At halftime its Yorktown 35, Lincoln 31. Please go here to Yorktown’s […]
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"Naval Aviator" Sobriquet Born 1915
Posted: Mar 22, 2011Before 22 March 1915, a pilot in the Navy was known as a “Navy Air Pilot,” after that date the term became Naval Aviator. As the World War II poster […]
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Dying Sailor Returns To His Youth One Last Time
Posted: Mar 21, 2011If I die young bury me in satin Lay me down on a bed of roses Sink me in the river at dawn Send me away with the words of […]
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Okinawa Campaign Begins 1945
Posted: Mar 18, 2011Task Force 58 under Admiral Marc Mitscher began the campaign against Okinawa with strikes on Kyushu, Japan, beginning on 18 March. The sorties would last four days and destroy over 482 […]
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Video Thursday 3.17.11 Happy St. Patrick's Day
Posted: Mar 17, 2011When Irish eyes are smiling…watch this video of the Irish air demonstration team, the Silver Swallows, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day… Next is a new airshow video of Lockheed Martin‘s […]
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Gemini VIII's Emergency Splashdown 1966
Posted: Mar 16, 2011Gemini VIII (8) with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Young made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean 500 miles east of Okinawa on 16 March 1966 only 10 hours […]
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Navy's First Choice Of Aircraft Color 1918
Posted: Mar 15, 2011Any guesses on what was the first color chosen by the Navy bureaucracy for a tactical paint scheme? Of course it was Navy gray! On 15 March 1918, the Bureau […]