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[/caption] The Blues arrived a little ahead of schedule as they made their initial passes over USS Yorktown at 10:08 AM on the Fighting Lady's 67th birthday today, 15 April. As they arrived from Navy...
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Yesterday we celebrated the 67th birthday of the USS Yorktown's commissioning at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 April 1943. Present for our ceremony were plank owner (and original crewmember) Rev. Harold...
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[/caption] One day after Yorktown's birthday, 16 April marks the 65 anniversary of the Japanese attack on the USS Laffey (DD-724)...when I first arrived at Patriots Point I was talking with a...
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[/caption] The Blue Angels put on a dazzling display of airmanship today over Charleston Harbor and the USS Yorktown. The weather was beautiful, sunny, warm with a slight sea breeze out of the south...
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As the sun set Saturday, 17 April, on the Yorktown, the entire Blue Angels team ( officer and enlisted) converged on Hangar Deck 3 to meet and greet our weekend campers! Every pilot, except LT C. J...
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The USS Laffey remains at Pier November on the old Charleston Naval Base, courtesy of the South Carolina State Ports Authority until June, when a decision will need to be made before hurricane season...
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[/caption] Part Five of "The Pacific" Basilone is still on his war bond drive back in the United States with beautiful starlet Virginia Grey. Meanwhile on the island of Pavuvu, Eugene Sledge catches...
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[/caption] Part Seven: Eugene Sledge and his Marine buddies continue to fight the Japanese on Peleliu. The fighting gets increasingly nasty among the Japanese controlled Umurbrogol Hills bristling...
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On 12 May 1945 the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was finally underway for a respite from war. During the Okinawa campaign, the Fighting Lady had been at sea for 61 days and steamed over 35,000 miles. She had...
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Patriots Point's Memorial Day program will take place on 31 May at 9 AM in our Vietnam Support Base. Admission and parking fees will be waived until 9:30 AM. Our guest speaker will be Colonel Myron...
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[/caption] Part Nine: The largest land battle of the Pacific begins on the island of Okinawa, 01 April 1945. Eugene Sledge and his Marine buddies for the first time encounter large numbers of...
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If you are in the Lowcountry of South Carolina on Monday morning, come on over to Patriots Point for Memorial Day and help us remember those who gave all...our Memorial Day ceremony begins at 9 AM...
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[/caption] The Patriots Point Curatorial/Exhibits department has just exhibited a display on World War II posters, which includes Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms painted in 1943. In 1942 President...
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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...