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It's Video Thursday! Our first video is what you can see every weekend on the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point...lots and lots of scouts...watch scouts from Pack 175 having a blast. [youtube:http://www...
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[/caption] On 18 January 1911, an American, Eugene Ely, successfully landed an aeroplane aboard the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay. On this brisk January morning, at 11 AM Ely took off...
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It's Video Thursday and if you haven't read or seen the news today, Patriots Point is going to try to interest the Boeing Company in joining us here on Charleston Harbor. The Boeing Company has long...
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[/caption] Patriots Point Foundation this week accepted a $15,000 donation from Mike and Mary Sudzina to provide scholarships for disadvantaged students, thereby allowing them to participate in...
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On 24 January 1959, two A-4D Skyhawks flew from El Toro, California, to Cherry Point, North Carolina (2,082 miles) in 4 hours and 25 minutes. The pilots of the two jets were Marine Corps naval...
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Where are our carriers? Long a question asked by our Presidents during times of crisis. Today we have eleven aircraft carrier battle groups and today around the world five are deployed. They are: USS...
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Today one hundred years ago, Glenn Curtiss made the first successful seaplane or as known then, hydroaeroplane, at North Island, San Diego, California. Navy Lieutenant T. G. Ellyson was a witness and...
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[/caption] ZR-3, USS Los Angeles, was a zeppelin built in Germany for the United States Navy as part of a reparations payment. She was our longest-serving airship from 1924-1939. Her landing onboard...
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[/caption] I was a young Navy Lieutenant on this date in 1986 and was performing my watch standing duty as Squadron Duty Officer (SDO). I was just completing my briefing on squadron events that day to...
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[/caption] Another Navy first, today eighty-one years ago a glider was dropped from the USS Los Angeles, ZR-3 (seen above). The idea of dropping a glider from an airship was the Chief of the Bureau of...
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On October 17 aboard the USS Yorktown in the Smokey Stover Theater, the Yorktown Association will host a discussion about family relationships and the experiences of crew members while on the aircraft...
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Friday morning a memorial service will be held for all former USS Yorktown shipmates and NASA Apollo 8 mission team members who have died in the past year. The service will be held aboard the USS...
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Saturday morning, the Yorktown Association will host a meet and greet session for museum visitors. Crewmembers participating will represent all significant U.S. conflicts that the aircraft carrier...
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Meet crew members of the USS Yorktown who were aboard the aircraft carrier in December 1968 and helped recover the Apollo 8 space capsule and crew after it orbited the moon and returned to Earth...
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Tickets are on sale for the Patriot Brunch featuring Mary Whyte aboard the USS Yorktown.
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On Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. Patriots Point will host a symposium about internationally-renowned artist Mary Whyte and her exhibit WE THE PEOPLE: Portraits of Veterans in America. World-Renowned...
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The RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit is a mobile movie theater that tours the country year round to educate and inspire people of all ages with the history and lessons of the Tuskegee Airmen. These war...
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Veterans Day weekend, from Nov. 8-11, the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will showcase a breathtaking display of hundreds of American Flags in front of the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point Naval &...
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Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is Charleston’s home for Patriotism during Veterans Day weekend, November 9th to 11th. As a sign of appreciation to those who have served in the military, the...
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On Monday, November 11th, the Charleston Concert Band will perform aboard the USS Yorktown from 2 pm to 4 pm. The band’s Jazz Ensemble will play for the first hour, followed by the entire concert band...