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Yorktown from the top!
Posted: Apr 14, 2009Here are a couple of images from our maintenance supply guy, William “Billy” Weatherford. My post on the ghost bomb hit from 18 March inspired him to forward these images […]
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April Volunteer Profile – George Lodge – aeronautical engineer
Posted: Apr 01, 2009Our April volunteer profile features our only aeronautical engineer, George Lodge,who worked for the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company from 1939 to 1947. He grew up in Camden, New Jersey […]
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E. L. Wright technology visit
Posted: Mar 31, 2009Every year (at least for the last 3 if not more) in March/April E. L. Wright middle school from Columbia, SC, comes to the USS Yorktown to learn about technology […]
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Scout aviators from Indiana
Posted: Mar 25, 2009Troop 646 from Guilford, Indiana, spent two days and nights of adventure on USS Yorktown, Monday and Tuesday this week. They had a great time in the aviation class and […]
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Future Top Gun pilots!
Posted: Jan 28, 2009Every weekend onboard the USS Yorktown, scout troops camping aboard have the option of working on their aviation merit badge. At each class, the scouts also have the opportunity of […]
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Fifth graders crew YORKTOWN January to March
Posted: Jan 23, 2009The Yorktown comes alive during each cold or warmer morning from 22 January to 05 March as Patriots Point and the USS Yorktown (CV-10) host over 1400 fifth graders and […]
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USS Yorktown awaits Apollo 8's splashdown! Borman reports moon made of American cheese!
Posted: Dec 27, 2008Nine hundred miles southwest of Hawaii at 9:31 AM (Houston time), the USS Yorktown (CV-10) awaited the splashdown of Apollo 8 just off Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. Unlike previous […]
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Astronaut Jim Lovell says "There is a Santa Claus!"
Posted: Dec 25, 2008The TransEarth Injection, TEI, was planned for just after midnight on Christmas Day. A successful burn would put Apollo 8 on its way back home and Houston control listened carefully […]
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Forty years ago!
Posted: Dec 22, 2008At 7:51 AM on 21 December 1968, a vehicle over 363 feet high leapt into the sky. The beast burnt 20 tons of fuel per second. More in one second […]
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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 […]