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Posts Tagged ‘Cold War’
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New USS Laffey Combat Information Center (CIC) Exhibit Opening
Posted: Jun 22, 2016Starting Saturday, June 25, a new high-tech exhibit aboard the USS Laffey at Patriots Point will takes visitors behind the curtain of the Cold War for a tension-filled portrayal of […]
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Lost Cold War Aviators August 1956
Posted: Aug 22, 2011On 22 August 1956 a P4M Mercator on night patrol flying 32 miles off the Chinese coast in international waters reported being under attack. Wreckage and the bodies of two […]
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Cold War Shootdown 1955
Posted: Jun 22, 2011On 22 June 1955 a P2V Neptune from Navy Patrol Squadron Nine (VP-9) was flying a routine maritime patrol in the Bering Strait. The aircraft was at 8000 feet altitude […]
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Polaris Launches 07 January 1960
Posted: Jan 07, 2011As a young boy boating around Charleston Harbor in the 1960’s, I had to be careful to watch for the wakes of departing and returning Polaris missile submarines, called by […]