The museum is located at Charleston Harbor at Patriots Point. The museum’s main attraction is the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-10).
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier in the US Navy. Under construction as “Bon Homme Richard”, the aircraft carrier was renamed in honor of Yorktown (CV-5) who sank at “The battle of Midway” (June 1942).
Yorktown was built in just 16½ months in Newport News, Virginia, and began service on April 15, 1943. Subsequently, Yorktown participated in the Allied offensive in the Pacific, ending with Japan’s defeat in 1945.
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In the 1950s, Yorktown was modernized to operate with jets and participated in the Vietnam War (1965-68).
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It was also Yorktown who fetched the Apollo 8 astronauts and the capsule (December 1968). 2 years later, in 1970, Yorktown was put out of service.
In 1975, Yorktown was pulled from Bayonne, NJ to Charleston to become the center of “Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum”.
Next to the aircraft carrier, you also find the US destroyer USS LAFFEY (DD-724) and the submarine USS CLAMARORE (SS-343) at the museum.
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Finally, there is also a “Vietnam Experience Exhibit” which is built as an American camp, as it looked in Vietnam in the 1960s.
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See more about the exhibition in this video
Author: MHK – Aircraftrecognition.com