News & Events
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1960 Navy World Altitude Record With Payload
Posted: Dec 13, 2011On 13 December 1960 an A-3J Vigilante crewed by naval aviator Commander Leroy Heath and bombardier-navigator Lieutenant Henry Monroe ascended to an altitude of 91,450.8 feet with a payload of […]
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Holiday Camp Set For USS Yorktown!
Posted: Dec 12, 2011The Town of Mount Pleasant Recreation Department and Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum’s Institute of History and Science are partnering to host an exciting new day camp for local […]
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2012 Presidential Campaign: Governor Rick Perry Visits USS Yorktown
Posted: Dec 08, 2011One day after the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Governor Rick Perry of Texas came aboard USS Yorktown in his fight to gain the Republican nomination for […]
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USS Yorktown CV-10 Keel Laid, 70 Years Ago Today!
Posted: Dec 01, 2011Today seventy years ago, the keel of the USS Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding, not far from the battle site of Yorktown, Virginia. The mighty Fighting Lady (nickname […]
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Pearl Harbor Day Events At Patriots Point
Posted: Nov 30, 2011Next Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into World War II. Just recently, historian Craig Shirley in his […]
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Naval Aviator Richard Byrd Makes 1st Flight Over The South Pole, 1929.
Posted: Nov 29, 2011In 1928, Edsel Ford donated a Ford Tri-Motor airplane to Commander Richard E. Byrd, polar explorer and naval aviator, which would be used to attempt the first flight over the […]
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Bathtub & Torpedo, Republicans and the Tehran Conference
Posted: Nov 28, 2011On 28 November 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met for a series of talks at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The […]
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Navy of the Future: DDG 1000 Keel Laid
Posted: Nov 18, 2011The keel of the Navy’s future high tech destroyer, USS Zumwalt DDG-1000, was laid down yesterday at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. DDG-1000 will be named in honor of […]
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Video Thursday: First US Navy Carrier, USS Langley CV-1, Eighty-Seven Years Ago!
Posted: Nov 17, 2011On 17 November 1924, USS Langley (CV-1) reported for duty with the United States Navy’s Battle Fleet after two years in experimental status, thus becoming the Navy’s first operational aircraft […]
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Open Cockpit Sunday, 04 December
Posted: Nov 16, 2011Have you ever wondered what it was like to be involved in something greater than one’s self? Have you ever wanted to climb into a Navy cockpit and imagine being a Naval Aviator and flying at Top Gun or landing on an aircraft carrier at sea? Sunday, 04 December, is your chance to fulfill a dream!