News & Events
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"Whale" to arrive on Yorktown's flight deck Friday!
Posted: Jul 01, 2010It’s not just any “Whale,” but the much esteemed Douglas A-3 Skywarrior, affectionately known as a whale because of its size and the great noise it made impacting the flight […]
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June Volunteer Profile – Nina Lindenberg
Posted: Jun 23, 2010Our June volunteer profile is on Nina Lindenberg. All of our volunteers have interesting stories, but I’m not sure they can meet the standards of Nina’s amazing one. She was […]
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USS Yorktown at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Part 3
Posted: Jun 20, 2010At 0524 on 20 June 1944, Yorktown launched search aircraft to find the Japanese fleet. The Japanese fleet wasn’t found that morning but search planes encountered and shot down several […]
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USS Yorktown at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Part 2
Posted: Jun 19, 2010Dawn came at 0430 on 19 June 1944. The weather was expected to be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) and the temperature in the low to mid 80’s. Wind was […]
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USS Yorktown at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Part 1
Posted: Jun 18, 2010On 18 June 1944, two large aircraft carrier battle groups approached each other southwest of Saipan in the Marianas. The First Mobile Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy carried 440 […]
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Cownose stingrays at Patriots Point
Posted: Jun 15, 2010Everyday I walk down the pier to the Yorktown I see wildlife and sealife…usually it’s channel bass, blue crabs, brown pelicans, ospreys, sea gulls, herons (great and white) …but sometimes […]
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Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts of America
Posted: Jun 11, 2010Every weekend (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years) 200-600 scouts arrive to camp onboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. This weekend we are scheduled for 526 scouting campers onboard. […]
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Norman Rockwell at the Charleston Navy Yard
Posted: Jun 09, 2010A skinny, young sailor reported in to the hot and humid Naval Training Camp at the Charleston Navy Yard on 23 August 1918. Being from New Rochelle, New York, the […]
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68th Anniversary – Victory at Midway!
Posted: Jun 04, 2010Today sixty-eight years ago, the United States’ Navy brought an end to Japanese domination of the Pacific by sinking four (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu) of her ten aircraft carriers […]
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Norman Rockwell at Patriots Point
Posted: Jun 03, 2010The Patriots Point Curatorial/Exhibits department has just exhibited a display on World War II posters, which includes Norman Rockwell‘s Four Freedoms painted in 1943. In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt […]