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CXAM Radar On Yorktown CV-5 Leads To IFF And CIC
Posted: Mar 28, 2011Following successful tests of the XAF radar, the Navy contracted with RCA (Radio Corporation of America) to build six more radars and they would be placed on one aircraft carrier […]
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Video Thursday 1.20.11
Posted: Jan 20, 2011It’s Video Thursday and if you haven’t read or seen the news today, Patriots Point is going to try to interest the Boeing Company in joining us here on Charleston […]
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FREE Admission Weekend this Saturday-Sunday, 8-9 January 2011
Posted: Jan 04, 2011Everyone is invited to Patriots Point’s “FREE Admission” weekend to kickoff the Centennial Anniversary of Naval Aviation (1911-2011). Come aboard and visit our ships, the Medal of Honor museum, […]
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Happy Birthday Fighting Lady aka USS Yorktown!
Posted: Dec 01, 2010Today sixty-nine 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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Hydraulic catapults enter Navy service 1934
Posted: Nov 15, 2010On 15 November 1934, the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics established plans to install hydraulic, flush-deck catapults on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Type H, Mark I […]
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Veterans of the Fighting Lady – full video
Posted: Nov 11, 2010Here is the full video story on our Veterans of the Fighting Lady exhibit created by Shell Royster and Steven Hyatt. Enjoy!
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Preview to Veterans Day and "Veterans of the Fighting Lady" Portrait Exhibit
Posted: Nov 08, 2010Join 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 […]
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Victory at Yorktown, 1781
Posted: Oct 19, 2010Today 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 Trumbull’s […]
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Video Thursday! Launch'em…..
Posted: Oct 14, 2010Today marks my first Video Thursday! Each week I will save up my favorite videos or most newsworthy ones and post them for your pre-weekend entertainment or edification. First is […]
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Young sailors bring new look to Yorktown's flight deck!
Posted: Oct 08, 2010“Sleep softly my old love my beauty in the dark night is a dream we have as you know as you know” W. S. Merwin Yesterday a group […]