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Posts Tagged ‘United States Navy’
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FREE Showing of “Life in A Jar” Play on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Posted: Mar 14, 2019On May 2nd, Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum will be hosting a FREE showing of “Life in A Jar” play on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The play is centered around […]
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Patriots Point Celebrates USS Yorktown’s 75th Anniversary
Posted: Apr 18, 2018It took former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt two tries to break the champagne bottle against the hull of the USS Yorktown CV-10 when she christened the ship she sponsored in […]
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Survivor of WWII’s Battle of Midway to Share Memories on the 75th Anniversary
Posted: May 31, 2017A World War II veteran who survived a fierce attack aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the iconic and pivotal Battle of Midway, will share his story at a free […]
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Vietnamese Refugee Tells Story of Rescue by the Navy Leading to Military Service
Posted: Oct 03, 2016Lan Dalat was 13 years old and living in war-torn, communist Vietnam when his parents decided to risk everything and flee the country in 1981. Facing a possible capture by […]
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Newly Restored F-14 Tomcat To Be Unveiled April 23
Posted: Apr 21, 2016The curtain will soon come down, the ladders and paint sprayers will be put away, and the public will once again be able to view the F-14 on the flight […]
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Large audience comes to see Heroes of Iwo Jima: 70 Years Later
Posted: Mar 10, 2015Hundreds attended the Heroes of Iwo Jima Symposium onboard the USS Yorktown on Thursday, March 5, 2015 to hear a first-hand account from three veterans who served in that iconic […]
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Collins Engineers Release Structural Report On The USS YORKTOWN
Posted: Jan 16, 2015MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – After more than 40 years of resting in the salty waters of Charleston Harbor, it has been determined that the USS Yorktown is in relatively great […]
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Nearly 500 Sailors Volunteer During Day of Caring at Patriots Point
Posted: Nov 19, 2014On Friday, November 14, nearly 500 sailors from the Navy Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) came to Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum ready to roll up their sleeves and […]
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Video Thursday: Robotics II
Posted: Oct 06, 2011Last Video Thursday we looked at robotics and how scouts have a new merit badge program for it. Today we’ll look at how robotics are going to change the Navy with a few videos showing the state of the art in robotics…drone technology.
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Tiger Jet Suicide! Or How Not To Start Your Weekend!
Posted: Sep 21, 2011On 21 September 1956 Grumman test pilot Tom Attridge became the first jet pilot to manage to shoot his own aircraft down. He was flying the Grumman F11F-1 Tiger [138260].