bullet Patriots Point Fisheye view of the ships at Patriots Point, Laffey, Ingham, Clamagore, Yorktown and the Cooper River bridges in the distanceis home to USS YORKTOWN (CV-10), the Fighting Lady. (The first USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) sank at the battle of Midway on June 7, 1942.) Onboard the decks of this famous World War II aircraft carrier, you can relive a momentous time in America's history. The Fighting Lady contains all the evidence of her past; one can see, touch, feel and smell the past, where young Americans fought and died to turn the fortunes of war in the Pacific and fought against communism in Korea, Vietnam and in the North Atlantic.  click here

 

bullet USS Yorktown Page by Patriot's Point Commissioned on April 15, 1943, "The Fighting Lady" USS Yorktown CV 10 was named for USS YORKTOWN (CV-5).  (CV5 was sunk at the crucial battle of Midway.) USS Yorktown CV 10 played a leading part in the war in the Pacific, receiving a Presidential Unit Citation and 11 battle stars for her service in World War II and fought against communism in Korea, Vietnam and in the North Atlantic.  click here

 

bullet Are you 11 to 17 years old but want be a USS Yorktown sailor?  Sea Cadets get to do a lot of cool stuff. Like go on active duty aircraft carriers and ships, fly in military aircraft, get for go to boot camps for various training. Cadets also spend nights on The USS Yorktown aircraft carrier as part of the crew. They sleep in racks (navy term for beds) and chow in the mess.  Cadets wear various navy uniforms, march, and achieve higher ranks just like in the real Navy.  If you live in or around South Carolina, are between the ages of 11 and 17, and are interested in the military. Join the CSS Hunley USS Yorktown Division of the Naval Sea Cadets www.hyseacadets.org
 

 

bullet Helicopter Squadron Four HS-4   Served on the USS Yorktown in 1963 and 1964 and also during Western PacificHS-4 Crest Cruises (Westpac) in 1968.  They are still based at North Island, San Diego, Calif. They have a web page:  www.hs4.navy.mil/

Click here for the free previews of the Academy Award Winning Movie about
the USS Yorktown, "The Fighting Lady.

bullet Congressional Medal of Honor Museum  Located on the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point, the museum details the eight eras of Medal of Honor history: The Civil War; Indian Campaigns; Wars of American Expansion; Peacetime; World War I; World War II; Korea; and Vietnam. Panels list all of the Medal of Honor recipients to date and include such well-known names as Audie Murphy, Sergeant Alvin York and Jimmie Doolittle.  click here

 

bullet NASA Apollo 8 site photographs, sounds click here and click here

 

bullet Navsource Online  Photos of USS Yorktown  click here

 

bullet "The Fighting Lady"  Pictures of CV5 and CV 10.  Even has a picture of CV5 "floating again"  click here

 

bullet CV-10 Another website by a Yorktown Vet  click here
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bullet USS Pueblo web page; maintained by the crew of the surveillance ship that was seized by the communist North Koreans and the crew held for 11 months.  USS Yorktown went to the Sea of Japan in a show of force. click here

 

 

bullet USS Yorktown CG 48  One of the long line of US Navy Ships called USS Yorktown.  Decommissioned in 2004, Brian McClure, ET1,  Onboard Yorktown CG48 1998-2001, has set up a website to honor that great ship the cruiser, USS Yorktown click here or go to https://www.cg48.org/
 
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USS Liberty 

USS Liberty link

During the Six Day War in 1967 between Israel and the Arab States, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes in international waters by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four American men died and 171 were wounded.  The cover up of the Israeli attack on the US Navy ship... Why did it happen?  Read the crew's website at https://ussliberty.org    Israel wanted to blind the US President so it could attack Syria AFTER Syria had surrendered/ceased fire.  The intelligence ship USS Liberty would have informed the US President that the Israelis were invading the Golan Heights after the war was over.  Why has the United States government turned its back on our brave shipmates?  Buy the video tape investigation by the History Channel.  History Channel Store

 

bullet Awesome picture gallery of Naval Aviation, other military aviation and commercial aviation. Some are awesome, some are funny but it is interesting to see your "tax dollars at work" in aviation. https://www.highgallery.com/carrier.html   or main page at https://www.highgallery.com/

 

bullet Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society while the USS Yorktown is the most famous aircraft carrier in the history of the US Navy, the Battleship New Jersey is the most famous battleship.  click onto battleship USS New Jersey

 

bullet Nice pictures and details explanation on what it takes to land and take off from a US Navy aircraft carrier.  https://users.exis.net/~eholmes/soun-pg5.html 

 

bullet Hear and see what its like to land of an aircraft carrier.  Very cool stuff. Takes three minutes to download sound and photos   https://www.ussbhr-online.org/ USS BonHomme Richard

 

bullet National Geographic finds the USS Yorktown CV5 on the Ocean's floor.  See it and hear it.  click here

 

bullet USS Yorktown CG 48  "The Yorktown Affair"  Using computer technology the new USS Yorktown, an Aegis Class guided missile cruiser goes dead in the water for nearly 3 hours and is towed back to port. click here

 

bullet Three US Navy aircraft carrier fires  click here 44 men dead on the USS Oriskany 1966; USS Forrestal 134 dead in 1967; USS Enterprise 1969

 

bullet USS Forrestal On July 29, 1967, 134 United States Navy sailors died in a fire that started on the flight deck.  click here

 

bullet USS Roosevelt  former Roosevelt veterans log in; check the progress to make the Roosevelt a museum in San Diego California

 

bullet hnsac-300 Click onto anchor to see the collection of ships from the Historic Naval Ships Association

 

bullet National Association of Naval Photography;  Navy Photographers who have served their country by recording the history of the world as seen by Navy men and women in peace and in war as well as meeting the nations needs through world wide aerial photo reconnaissance and mapping. Look up a Navy Photographer. https://www.navyphoto.org 

 

bullet Graphic used for page headerOfficial US Navy Website for public domain pictures of modern aircraft carriers in the past few months, scroll inside this site and find the contribution that aircraft carriers have made for the defense of the United States.  click here

 

bullet Veterans History Project  Recorded interviews and other documents chronicling veterans' and other citizens' wartime experiences and how those experiences affected their lives and America itself. American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

 

bullet Highly detailed model of the USS Yorktown for only $11,500 click here  USS YorktownIronically, you could could have purchased the entire USS Yorktown, the real thing, for $1.00. That is what the State of South Carolina did in the 1970s.

 

bullet USS Coral Sea Association  "older and bolder"  click here  air groups, ship's company, ship's history.

Amphibious Assault Ships

bullet USS BONHOMME RICHARD
bullet USS Belleau Wood
bullet USS Essex 
bullet USS FREDERICK
bullet USS Kearsarge
bullet USS PELELIU

Amphibious Transport Dock

bullet USS Cleveland's 
bullet USS DENVER 
bullet USS Fort McHenry
bullet USS Germantown 
bullet USS HARPERS FERRY 
bullet USS Juneau 
bullet USS Nashville 
bullet USS Ogden 
bullet USS Ponce 
bullet USS RUSHMORE 
bullet USS Trenton 

Carriers

bullet USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
bullet USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
bullet USS Constellation (CV 64)
bullet USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)
bullet USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
bullet USS George Washington (CVN 73)
bullet USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
bullet USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
bullet USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67)
bullet USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63)
bullet USS Nimitz (CVN 68)
bullet USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
bullet  
bullet USS Essex CV-9 Association Home Page 
bullet USS Hornet CV-12 Association
bullet USS Ticonderoga CV-14 History
bullet USS Randolph CV-15 History
USS Lexington CV-16 Association
bullet USS Wasp CV-18 Association
bullet USS Hancock CV-19
bullet USS Bennington CV-20
bullet USS Boxer CV-21 Home Page
bullet USS Bon Homme Richard CV-31 Home Page
bullet USS Kearsage CV-33 Korean War Project
bullet USS Oriskany CV-34 Navy History
bullet USS Antietam CV-36 Home Page
bullet USS Princeton CV-37 Home Page
bullet USS Shangri-La CV-38 Home Page
bullet USS Midway CV-41
bullet USS Valley Forge CV-45
bullet USS Phillipine Sea CV-47
bullet USS Ranger CV-61 Home Page
bullet Aircraft Carrier Memorial
bullet Master List of US Carriers

Amphibious Group

bullet Amphibious Squadron Three
bullet Assault Craft Unit FIVE
bullet Assault Craft Unit Four
bullet Assault Craft Unit Two
bullet COMPHIBGRU ONE (Commander Task Force SEVEN SIX)
bullet Commander, Amphibious Group THREE
bullet Commander, Amphibious Group TWO
bullet Commander, Amphibious Squadron ELEVEN
bullet Commander, Amphibious Squadron ONE
bullet Commander, Amphibious Squadron Two
bullet Commander, Naval Beach Group ONE

Amphibious Squadron

bullet COMPHIBRON SEVEN
bullet COMPHIBRON SIX
bullet Commander Amphibious Squadron Four

Aviation

bullet Blue Angels Homepage
bullet CNO NATOPS Homepage
bullet COMHSLWINGLANT Home Page
bullet COMNAVAIRPAC
bullet Carrier Air Wing FIVE
bullet Carrier Air Wing Fourteen
bullet Commander Naval Air Forces Atlantic Fleet (COMNAVAIRLANT)
bullet Commander, Carrier Air Wing Reserve 20
bullet Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron FOUR Homepage
bullet Naval Air Maintenance Training Group, Detachment Norfolk, VA
bullet Naval Air Systems Command
bullet Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division
bullet Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division
bullet Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division
bullet Naval Aviation Depot - Jacksonville Florida
bullet Naval Aviation Depot North Island, San Diego CA
bullet Naval Aviation Depot, Cherry Point, NC
bullet Naval Aviation Safety School
bullet Navy Air Logistics Office Homepage
bullet Strategic Communications Wing ONE TACAMO Homepage
bullet U.S. Navy Flight Test
bullet U.S. Navy and Marine Corps School of Aviation Safety
bullet VAW-123 Screwtops
bullet VAW-126 Seahawks
bullet VR-53 Capital Express Home Page
bullet VS-22 Checkmates
bullet Welcome to Navy Lakehurst

Squadrons

bullet Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW-126)
bullet Electronic Attack Squadron 129 (VAQ-129)
bullet Fighter Squadron Composite Twelve Home Page
bullet Fleet Composite Squadron Six (VC-6)
bullet HC-11 HELSUPPRON ELEVEN
bullet HC-2 The Fleet Angels
bullet HC-8
bullet HS-15: The World Famous Red Lions
bullet HS-5 World Famous Nightdippers
bullet HS11 Dragonslayers Home Page
bullet HSL 47 Saberhawk Homepage
bullet HSL-40 Airwolves Web Page
bullet HSL-42 Proud Warriors
bullet HSL-44 Swamp Foxes
bullet HSL-46 Grandmasters
bullet HSL-48 Vipers
bullet HSL-51 WARLORDS
bullet Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron SEVEN
bullet Helicopter Combat Support Special Squadron FIVE (HCS-5)
bullet Helicopter Combat Support Squadron FOUR (HC-4)
bullet PATROL SQUADRON FOUR
bullet Patrol Squadron NINE (VP-9)
bullet Patrol Squadron Ninety-Four (VP-94)
bullet Patrol Squadron SIXTEEN (VP-16)
bullet Patron Squadron Five
bullet Strike Fighter Squadron EIGHT ONE
bullet Strike Fighter Squadron Eight Three 
bullet TACRON 21
bullet The Rook's Roost
bullet Training Squadron TWO-EIGHT
bullet VAQ-128 The Fighting Phoenix
bullet VAQ-139 Home Page
bullet VAW-121 Bluetails
bullet VAW-124 Bear Aces 
bullet VFA-136 Knighthawks
bullet VFA-27 Royal Maces
bullet VP-1 Screaming Eagles Homepage
bullet VP-30, Pro's Nest Home Page
bullet VP-47 Golden Swordsmen
bullet VR-48 Capital Skyliners
bullet VR-55 Minutemen
bullet VRC-30 The Providers
bullet VS-29 Dragonfires' Homepage
bullet VS-31 Topcats Homepage
bullet VS-38 Homepage
bullet VS33 Screwbirds
bullet Viking Community
bullet Welcome to HC-5 online

Battle Group Staff

bullet Carrier Group Eight
bullet Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Group Twelve

Naval Air Station

bullet NAS Patuxent River, MD 
bullet Naval Air Station Atlanta
bullet Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada
bullet Naval Air Station Jacksonville
bullet Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Willow Grove, PA
bullet Naval Air Station Lemoore
bullet Naval Air Station Meridian
bullet Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, CA
bullet Naval Air Station Oceana
bullet Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
bullet Naval Air Station Whiting Field
bullet Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fl
bullet Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California
bullet Naval Air Station, Sigonella

Naval Bases

bullet COMNAVBASE Seattle
bullet Commander Navy Region Hawaii
bullet Commander, Navy Region Southwest
bullet Naval Station Bremerton
bullet Naval Station Mayport, Florida
bullet Naval Submarine Base New London
bullet Naval Submarine Base, Bangor
bullet Naval Training Center Great Lakes
bullet Navy Region Northwest
bullet Submarine Base San Diego 

Naval Stations

bullet Naval Station Everett
bullet Naval Station Newport, Newport, RI
bullet Naval Station Pearl Harbor
bullet Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico
bullet Naval Weapons Station Charleston
bullet U. S. Naval Station, Rota, Spain

Online Navy Publications

bullet All Hands
bullet CHIPS
bullet Captain's Call Kit
bullet Deckplate magazine
bullet Everett Navy Dispatch On-line
bullet Hawaii Navy News
bullet Naval Reservist News
bullet Naval Vessel Register
bullet Profile, Life in the Armed Forces
bullet Public Affairs Communicator
bullet Surface Warfare Magazine

Associations

bullet  Navy and Marine Fire Protection Association
bullet American Retirees Association

Online Private Navy Related Websites

bullet https://www.hullnumber.com/
 
bullet Official Navy Web Site
bullet Able Dogs
bullet Official A-1 Skyraider Site

 

 

 


 





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