News & Events
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Post Wright Brothers Day
Posted: Dec 18, 2008Yesterday one hundred and five years ago, Wilbur and Orville Wright, showed the world what dreams were made of when they flew four flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Today, […]
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1st week of December 1941
Posted: Dec 05, 2008The first week of December 1941 changed our nation forever. On 01 December the keel of USS Yorktown (then USS Bon Homme Richard) was laid at Newport News shipbuilding in […]
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Thanksgiving – A day early and 65 years ago
Posted: Nov 26, 2008Today marks the 65th anniversary of the US Navy’s first successful night intercept on 26 November 1943 by LCDR Butch O’Hare, air group commander of Air Wing 6 on the […]
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Veteran's Day on the YORKTOWN
Posted: Nov 11, 2008Today marks the 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. My wife’s grandfather, D. K. McGill was on his way to the front […]
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CV-10 from the Patriots Point Marina
Posted: Nov 09, 2008Patriots Point Originally uploaded by joel8x A great shot looking north from the marina at YORKTOWN and the new Cooper River bridge taken in March 2008.
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Call the ball!
Posted: Nov 07, 2008“Call the ball,” is the traditional welcome of the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) to an arriving pilot attempting to land aboard a very small, pitching deck at sea. Welcome to […]