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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...
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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...