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[/caption] Today 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 at the...
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[/caption] A 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 Lowcountry South Carolina...
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[/caption] Every 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...
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Everyday 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) [/caption] [/caption] [...
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[/caption] On 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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[/caption] Dawn 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 out of the east at 9 to 12...
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At 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 Japanese float...
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[/caption] Our 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 born in...
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[/caption] It'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 deck of a...
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[/caption] Today a very impressive flag ceremony was held on the flight deck of USS Yorktown (CV-10). Appropriately 02 July is our actual date of Independence as the Continental Congress passed their...
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[/caption] Our A-3D Skywarrior arrived on high tide this afternoon. Originally designed by Douglas Aircraft Corporation to be a twin engined nuclear bomber for the Navy, the "Whale" served most of its...
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[/caption] Last Saturday, 17 July, Patriots Point was the site of a reunion for five members of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1973. Their service in the United States Navy was performed in...
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On 23 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. This "surprise" war led to the United States rebuilding our military, which had been pared down rapidly at the end of the world war. Many reservists...
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[/caption] Yesterday marked the 89th anniversary of the formation of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics on 10 August 1921. Charlestonian Captain William Adger Moffett was nominated by President Harding...
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If you thought flying off an aircraft carrier at night was pretty hairy, check out this video below of a 15 year old girl in a steep mountain canyon in Washington State. She fell off a cliff into the...
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Coming back up the ladders from the 3rd deck (2 decks below the hangar deck, naval architecture is a topic for another post) a short while ago, I met two lost gentlemen who asked if there was a way to...
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The use of the term knot goes back to the day of sailing ships. Sailors would toss over a "Dutch log" which had a line attached with knots tied into it at intervals. Through trial and error, seamen...
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[/caption] One beautiful summer day a 15-year-old boy and future Eagle Scout looked up into the New Jersey sky and saw a Marine F4U Corsair fly over in a low pass, he said to himself, "That's what I...
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[/caption] The South Carolina State Guard Foundation and The Citadel are hosting the 2010 Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s Convention in Charleston, South Carolina. This will be a celebration...
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Everyone has a hero, someone you admire and wish to become. Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle wrote, “Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your...