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The TransEarth Injection, TEI, was planned for just after midnight on Christmas Day. A successful burn would put Apollo 8 on its way back home and Houston control listened carefully for the astronauts...
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Nine hundred miles southwest of Hawaii at 9:31 AM (Houston time), the USS Yorktown (CV-10) awaited the splashdown of Apollo 8 just off Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. Unlike previous missions, the...
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Our volunteers are key in helping bring the ships and aircraft of Patriots Point to life. Our first volunteer profile is on former World War 2, Marine Corps Dauntless and Corsair pilot Bill Cart. Born...
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The Yorktown comes alive during each cold or warmer morning from 22 January to 05 March as Patriots Point and the USS Yorktown (CV-10) host over 1400 fifth graders and their teachers from thirty-one...
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Every weekend onboard the USS Yorktown, scout troops camping aboard have the option of working on their aviation merit badge. At each class, the scouts also have the opportunity of earning a Top Gun...
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It has been a very cold, windy week here at Patriots Point. I don't remember a couple of colder days in the past ten years (30's daytime, 20's at night), but the weather today is trending back towards...
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"Call the ball," is the traditional welcome of the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) to an arriving pilot attempting to land aboard a very small, pitching deck at sea. Welcome to the first blog onboard the...
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Today I met the granddaughter of Henry E. "Red" Erwin. Jennifer Michaels and her two sons, David (6) and Will (3), were here to visit the Congressional Medal of Honor museum, while her Air Force...
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Our volunteer profile this month is on Merchant Marine Bob Barkus. His father and mother immigrated to New York City from England in 1926. Bob was born in Brooklyn July 1928. He was 13 when Pearl...
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Our March volunteer profile is on PFC (Private First Class) Dick Whitaker. Upon his graduation from high school in Saugerites, New York, in 1944, the United States Marine Corp gave him an amazing...
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Dick Trammel has published a Facebook page for "the Fighting Lady." Become a Fan of the Yorktown... you can find her page here.
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Sixty four years ago on 18 March while conducting operations off Okinawa, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was struck by a Japanese bomb at 1507 (3:07 PM) when a Judy dive bomber came out of the clouds dead...
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Troop 646 from Guilford, Indiana, spent two days and nights of adventure on USS Yorktown, Monday and Tuesday this week. They had a great time in the aviation class and here we see them in front of the...
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Sixty four years ago, the Yorktown (CV-10) was engaged in softening up Okinawa for the Army/Marine invasion on 01 April. On the morning of 26 March, VBF-9 and VT-9 off the "Fighting Lady" were busy...
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Every year (at least for the last 3 if not more) in March/April E. L. Wright middle school from Columbia, SC, comes to the USS Yorktown to learn about technology from World War II. This year around 95...
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Our April volunteer profile features our only aeronautical engineer, George Lodge,who worked for the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company from 1939 to 1947. He grew up in Camden, New Jersey and attended...
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Here are a couple of images from our maintenance supply guy, William "Billy" Weatherford. My post on the ghost bomb hit from 18 March inspired him to forward these images in an email and here are his...
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Boy Scout Troop 245 from Cumming, Georgia, attended the aviation merit badge class onboard Yorktown this weekend at Patriots Point. The troop did a pretty good job in the combat portion, and a few...
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Just as the Navy selected Pensacola, Florida, for the site of naval air training due to good weather conditions, Troop 9 out of Worcester, Massachusetts elected to come south to the USS Yorktown for...
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Today is a very busy one at Patriots Point with over 1000 school and adult visitors scheduled to arrive for educational programs and tours of our ships and aircraft. The weather is sunny and the...