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Posts Tagged ‘pearl harbor’
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Scrappy’s Back in Town
Posted: Jan 11, 2023Scrappy’s Return There’s a familiar face appearing around town again. Scrappy, the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum mascot, is attending Cool Ray’s 30th birthday bash at Mascot Mania on […]
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Patriots Point to Host Free Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Service
Posted: Nov 30, 2021Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum will host a free Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Service aboard the USS Yorktown on Tuesday, December 7 at 11 a.m. to honor the 25 […]
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Events This Week: April 15-19, 2019
Posted: Apr 19, 2019This week in April is home to historical dates that we must never forget here at Patriots Point. Important dates this week: On April 15th, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was […]
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Patriots Point to Host Memorial Ceremony For 25 South Carolinians Killed in the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Posted: Nov 28, 2017The 25 known South Carolinians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will be honored during a free remembrance ceremony at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum […]
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Hundreds attend symposium on the Doolittle Raid of WWII
Posted: Apr 26, 2017On Friday, April 21, more than 350 people came to the USS Yorktown and sat in the shadow of the B-25 on display to hear the story of one of […]
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Hundreds attend Pearl Harbor Memorial Service
Posted: Dec 12, 2016Hundreds of people — veterans, civilians, active-duty military personnel and students — came to the USS Yorktown on December 7, 2016 to remember the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack […]
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Patriots Point's Grumman Wildcat F4F-3A
Posted: Jul 06, 2011Oh Mother, dear Mother, take down that blue star; Replace it with one that is Gold. Your son is a Wildcat pilot, He’ll never be thirty years old. (WW 2 […]
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United States Declares War on the Imperial Japanese Empire, 1941
Posted: Dec 08, 2010Interestingly, the United States declared war on the same date that the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Because of the International Dateline, the Japanese attack came on 08 December […]
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Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point 2010
Posted: Dec 07, 2010Today two hundred and sixty-six Americans gathered on a cold, windy 07 December at Patriots Point to remember Pearl Harbor. The memorial program was put together and run by the […]
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Happy 100th Birthday, John Finn, Pearl Harbor MOH recipient!
Posted: Jul 24, 2009Today marks the 100th birthday of our oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, John Finn. His actions at Pearl Harbor on 07 December 1941 showed the spirit of the fighting […]