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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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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 […]