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On the morning of Friday, July 6, 2018, Waitman Kapaldo was joined by generations of his family for an emotional trip back to the USS Laffey DD-724 for the first time since September 1945. As the 97...
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The South Carolina Aquarium, Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, and the Charleston Water Taxi have joined together for the new Charleston Waterfront Pass. For the first time, the three...
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Patriots Point Naval & Maritime museum announces a $5,000 donation from AT&T to the USS Yorktown Foundation for scholarships to provide underserved students with opportunities to experience STEM-based...
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Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum was unharmed by Hurricane Florence and will reopen to visitors Tuesday, Sept 18. All overnight camping, education and event rentals will also resume on Tuesday....
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On Friday, August 3, hundreds attended the latest in a series of educational symposiums aboard the USS Yorktown -- "The USCG at War." The event brought together a panel of experts from various fields...
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The most recent in an ongoing series of educational symposiums focused on the use of modern urban warfare by the Marines of Echo Company during a fierce battle in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006-2007. The event...
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Vietnam veterans who served in the Brown Water Navy joined the panel in the latest Patriots Point symposium to share the stories of their service during the Vietnam War along the coast and in the...
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On 1 October 2018, veterans and friends of the USS Laffey gathered aboard the fantail of their beloved ship for a service to remember the 32 sailors who were killed in action by Japanese bombers and...
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Combat historian and bestselling author Patrick O’Donnell will discuss his latest book “The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Soldiers Who Brought Him...
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On Friday, Nov. 16, more than 400 sailors from the Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) at Joint Base Charleston will volunteered at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum as part of the Trident...
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More than 400 people attended the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Service on Friday, Dec. 7 aboard the USS Yorktown. The service, organized together with Veterans of...
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Patriots Point Development Authority (PPDA) announced today that executive director Mac Burdette will retire effective June 30, 2019. The state agency’s Board of Directors has formed a committee to...
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The USS Yorktown Foundation is proud to receive a $25,000 grant from American Airlines to continue funding Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum’s newest Flight Academy program called “Take Flight to...
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On May 2nd, Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum will be hosting a FREE showing of "Life in A Jar" play on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The play is centered around the remarkable life of Irena...
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On Vietnam Veterans Day, Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum honored all Vietnam veterans as well as two men who lost their lives in the last marine helicopter crash of Vietnam. March 29, 2019...
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This week in April is home to historical dates that we must never forget here at Patriots Point. Important dates this week: On April 15th, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was commissioned. On April 16th, it...
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The Patriots Point Development Authority (PPDA) has selected Larry Murray as executive director of the state agency. Murray will succeed Mac Burdette who has served as executive director of PPDA for...
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More than a thousand people braved rainy weather conditions on June 6 to attend our program commemorating the 75th anniversary of World War II's D-Day invasion of France. Nine D-Day veterans from...
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We promised you a party on July 4th and that's what you got - here are more than 250 photos to prove it! Thank you to everyone who celebrated Independence Day alongside and aboard our historic...
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Hurricane season is officially underway here in the Lowcountry, and since the USS Yorktown hasn’t braved any tropical disturbances so far this year, we'll tell you about past ones instead. Did you...