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[/caption] Imaging Arts Gallery will exhibit a series of portraits by local portrait photographers, displaying veterans who have served or serve today on the USS Yorktown (CV-10). These veterans are...
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[/caption] One hundred and forty-six years ago today, Horace Hunley was brought up from the depths of Charleston Harbor, not far from the Yorktown's present location, along with the 2nd crew of his...
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[/caption] Today marks the two hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the American and French defeat of the British Army under Lord General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. Above is the John...
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Next year, 2011, will mark the centennial of Naval Aviation in the United States Navy. It will be a year marked by many celebrations and remembrances across the nation of the contribution of men and...
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Imaging Arts Gallery will exhibit a series of portraits by local portrait photographers, displaying veterans who have served or serve today on the...
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One hundred and ninety-eight years ago, the young United States Navy gained a victory at sea against the world's most powerful Navy, when the USS President defeated the HMS Macedonian in a sea battle...
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[/caption] On 26 October 1922, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Chevalier, USN, flew his Aeromarine 39-B on to the flight deck of the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1)...
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[/caption] USS Akron was commissioned at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 27 October 1931. She was 785 feet in length and weighed 242,356 pounds. The ZRS-4 was built in 1931 in the largest...
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Time for my top videos of the week! Hope you enjoy them, again send me links to your favorite videos and the best one I receive during the month of November will receive an early Christmas present...
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Whenever a crisis happens in the world, ever since World War II, our Presidents have probably asked as one of their first questions, "Where are our carriers?" On 29 October 1956, Israeli forces...
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Today is the birthday of the naval officer who was able to foresee a power air arm of the United States Navy. William Adger Moffett was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on 31 October 1869. He was...
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A group of Yale students volunteered to form a flying unit for the United States Navy in February 1917 and they enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as seamen second class on 16 April 1917, ten...
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The first launch of a naval aviator and naval aircraft took place from a catapult mounted on a barge at the Washington Navy Yard. On 12 November 1912, Lieutenant Ellyson, Naval Aviator #1, made the...
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On 03 November 1921, pilot Bert Acosta flying the Curtiss-Navy racer powered by a 400-h.p. Curtiss engine, won the Pulitzer Race at Omaha, Nebraska, with a world record speed of 176.7 mph. The...
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Here are my top three videos this week, one serious and two for fun! Send me your top video and if I use it you become eligible for this month's prize, passes for four and a personal tour by our very...
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Eighty years ago on 05 November 1930, L. C. Young and L. A. Hyland of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detected an aircraft while conducting experiments in the directional effects of radio. This...
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[/caption] Join us on 11 November to commemorate Veterans Day on the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. Our volunteer-veterans will be holding a “Meet and Greet” from 10 am to 2 pm on USS Yorktown. Our...
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Thanks for protecting America! We wish you many more birthdays, Happy 235th year of Semper Fi!
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In the next two segments of the miniseries we see the results of riding the roller coaster of wartime emotions...from joy and life to horror and death...it is a tough life for young soldiers, some are...
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[/caption] Our April volunteer profile is on Hank Siegfried. He grew up in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from high school in 1957. In November he was invited by his Uncle Sam to enlist in...