News & Events
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Aircraft Carrier March Madness, 3.23.11!
Posted: Mar 23, 2011Yorktown defeated Tarawa 53-10, second round action finds Yorktown in a battle with active duty carrier Abraham Lincoln. At halftime its Yorktown 35, Lincoln 31. Please go here to Yorktown’s […]
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"Naval Aviator" Sobriquet Born 1915
Posted: Mar 22, 2011Before 22 March 1915, a pilot in the Navy was known as a “Navy Air Pilot,” after that date the term became Naval Aviator. As the World War II poster […]
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Dying Sailor Returns To His Youth One Last Time
Posted: Mar 21, 2011If I die young bury me in satin Lay me down on a bed of roses Sink me in the river at dawn Send me away with the words of […]
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Okinawa Campaign Begins 1945
Posted: Mar 18, 2011Task Force 58 under Admiral Marc Mitscher began the campaign against Okinawa with strikes on Kyushu, Japan, beginning on 18 March. The sorties would last four days and destroy over 482 […]
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Video Thursday 3.17.11 Happy St. Patrick's Day
Posted: Mar 17, 2011When Irish eyes are smiling…watch this video of the Irish air demonstration team, the Silver Swallows, as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day… Next is a new airshow video of Lockheed Martin‘s […]
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Gemini VIII's Emergency Splashdown 1966
Posted: Mar 16, 2011Gemini VIII (8) with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Young made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean 500 miles east of Okinawa on 16 March 1966 only 10 hours […]
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Navy's First Choice Of Aircraft Color 1918
Posted: Mar 15, 2011Any guesses on what was the first color chosen by the Navy bureaucracy for a tactical paint scheme? Of course it was Navy gray! On 15 March 1918, the Bureau […]
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Navy Develops Pulse Radar Technology 1934
Posted: Mar 14, 2011On 15 March 1934, Dr. Hoyt Taylor, head of the radio division at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) , put into motion a project to develop pulse radar for the detection […]
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Day One April 1861 @ Patriots Point 9-14 April
Posted: Mar 11, 2011Over 300 Civil War reenactors will be camped at Patriots Point in an artillery camp overlooking Charleston Harbor with 20-24 artillery pieces to fire upon Fort Sumter. Living history […]
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Video Thursday "The War Is Coming"
Posted: Mar 10, 2011Today’s Video Thursday features videos with a Civil War theme as we approach the beginning of our nation’s sesquicentennial events. Events that should highlight the tragedy of our bloodiest […]