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Today 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 in France on 11 November 1918 when he...
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Today 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 USS Enterprise (CV-6). As a nation...
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The 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 Newport News, VA. Six days...
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Yesterday 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, post WB day, thirteen C...
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At 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 by ten times what Charles Lindberg used in the first non...
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Apollo 8 began to speed up as it entered the moon's gravitational field today. Capcom Jerry Carr asked the astronauts what they could see and Bill Anders responded, "Nothing. It's like being on the...
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At 2:55 AM (Houston time) Apollo 8 was go for LOI (Lunar Orbit Insertion) burn. After travelling 234,000 miles the crew of Apollo 8 were about to go into a 69 mile orbit of the moon which called for...
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The 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 for the astronauts...
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Nine 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 missions, the...
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Our volunteers are key in helping bring the ships and aircraft of Patriots Point to life. Our first volunteer profile is on former World War 2, Marine Corps Dauntless and Corsair pilot Bill Cart. Born...
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The 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 their teachers from thirty-one...
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Every 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 earning a Top Gun...
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It has been a very cold, windy week here at Patriots Point. I don't remember a couple of colder days in the past ten years (30's daytime, 20's at night), but the weather today is trending back towards...
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"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 the first blog onboard the...
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Today I met the granddaughter of Henry E. "Red" Erwin. Jennifer Michaels and her two sons, David (6) and Will (3), were here to visit the Congressional Medal of Honor museum, while her Air Force...
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Our volunteer profile this month is on Merchant Marine Bob Barkus. His father and mother immigrated to New York City from England in 1926. Bob was born in Brooklyn July 1928. He was 13 when Pearl...
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[/caption] Oh Mother, dear Mother, take down that blue star; Replace it with one that is Gold. Your son is a Wildcat pilot, He'll never be thirty years old. (WW 2 Author unknown) Pulled from the...
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On 17 July Das Boot begins a 3 night run with submarine tour at Patriots Point... details here...torpedoes are the submarine's weapons of destruction, today we'll look at our modern torpedoes, which...
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On 08 July 1953 the "CVS" designation was established by the United States Navy to identify aircraft carriers dedicated to antisubmarine warfare missions. The first carriers to have their designations...
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The second living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the war in Afghanistan received his medal in ceremonies at the White House yesterday, 12 July. The new recipient is Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy...