News & Events
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USS Yorktown at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Part 2
Posted: Jun 19, 2010Dawn came at 0430 on 19 June 1944. The weather was expected to be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) and the temperature in the low to mid 80’s. Wind was […]
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USS Yorktown at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Part 1
Posted: Jun 18, 2010On 18 June 1944, two large aircraft carrier battle groups approached each other southwest of Saipan in the Marianas. The First Mobile Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy carried 440 […]
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Cownose stingrays at Patriots Point
Posted: Jun 15, 2010Everyday I walk down the pier to the Yorktown I see wildlife and sealife…usually it’s channel bass, blue crabs, brown pelicans, ospreys, sea gulls, herons (great and white) …but sometimes […]
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Norman Rockwell and the Boy Scouts of America
Posted: Jun 11, 2010Every weekend (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years) 200-600 scouts arrive to camp onboard the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. This weekend we are scheduled for 526 scouting campers onboard. […]
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Norman Rockwell at the Charleston Navy Yard
Posted: Jun 09, 2010A skinny, young sailor reported in to the hot and humid Naval Training Camp at the Charleston Navy Yard on 23 August 1918. Being from New Rochelle, New York, the […]
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68th Anniversary – Victory at Midway!
Posted: Jun 04, 2010Today sixty-eight years ago, the United States’ Navy brought an end to Japanese domination of the Pacific by sinking four (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu) of her ten aircraft carriers […]
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Norman Rockwell at Patriots Point
Posted: Jun 03, 2010The Patriots Point Curatorial/Exhibits department has just exhibited a display on World War II posters, which includes Norman Rockwell‘s Four Freedoms painted in 1943. In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt […]
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Prelude to Memorial Day – You Should Have Seen It In Color
Posted: May 28, 2010If you are in the Lowcountry of South Carolina on Monday morning, come on over to Patriots Point for Memorial Day and help us remember those who gave all…our Memorial […]
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The Pacific Miniseries on HBO: Parts 9 and 10
Posted: May 18, 2010Part Nine: The largest land battle of the Pacific begins on the island of Okinawa, 01 April 1945. Eugene Sledge and his Marine buddies for the first time encounter large […]
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Preview to Patriots Point's Memorial Day program
Posted: May 14, 2010Patriots Point’s Memorial Day program will take place on 31 May at 9 AM in our Vietnam Support Base. Admission and parking fees will be waived until 9:30 AM. Our […]