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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...
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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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Patriots Point Originally uploaded by joel8x A great shot looking north from the marina at YORKTOWN and the new Cooper River bridge taken in March 2008.
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Today marks the 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. My wife's grandfather, D. K. McGill was on his way to the front in France on 11 November 1918 when he...
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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the US Navy's first successful night intercept on 26 November 1943 by LCDR Butch O'Hare, air group commander of Air Wing 6 on the USS Enterprise (CV-6). As a nation...
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The first week of December 1941 changed our nation forever. On 01 December the keel of USS Yorktown (then USS Bon Homme Richard) was laid at Newport News shipbuilding in Newport News, VA. Six days...
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Yesterday one hundred and five years ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright, showed the world what dreams were made of when they flew four flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today, post WB day, thirteen C...
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At 7:51 AM on 21 December 1968, a vehicle over 363 feet high leapt into the sky. The beast burnt 20 tons of fuel per second. More in one second by ten times what Charles Lindberg used in the first non...
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Apollo 8 began to speed up as it entered the moon's gravitational field today. Capcom Jerry Carr asked the astronauts what they could see and Bill Anders responded, "Nothing. It's like being on the...
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At 2:55 AM (Houston time) Apollo 8 was go for LOI (Lunar Orbit Insertion) burn. After travelling 234,000 miles the crew of Apollo 8 were about to go into a 69 mile orbit of the moon which called for...