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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 21, 2022 5:15:03 GMT
Charleston Harbor - Cooper River
Charleston - Charleston County - South Carolina
Friday_15-July-2022 USS Yorktown CV-10
As seen from South Carolina Aquarium, looking across the Cooper River.
Photo taken through the glass of a vehicle during a rain.
The USS Yorktown CV-10 was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the United States Navy.
She was named after USS Yorktown CV-5 which was sank by a Japanese submarine on 07-June-1942 while in tow from the Battle of Midway.
This Wikipedia article includes a 1-hour 1944 U.S.Navy documentary video.
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jim0004
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Post by jim0004 on Jul 21, 2022 11:09:59 GMT
I hope you toured that ship -- it's well worth the time! TFS
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 21, 2022 17:00:00 GMT
I hope you toured that ship --
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Post by blackmutt on Jul 22, 2022 1:26:35 GMT
My father served on the Lexington cv2. Sunk in May 1942. No tours on that. She was found at the bottom of the Coral Sea a few years ago.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 22, 2022 3:11:36 GMT
My father served on the Lexington cv2. There is no easy way to ask this; Was your father aboard when she went down? |
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Post by blackmutt on Jul 22, 2022 10:10:26 GMT
Yes he survived . Rescued the ice cream from down below (was mentioned in a book about the ship) and waited for rescue. Had no interest in jumping in the water - sharks. He was an excellent swimmer but didn’t like sharks. when he passed he was probably one of the last survivors
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 22, 2022 16:33:16 GMT
he was probably one of the last survivors
When I was a little boy, everyone talked about WWII like it was last week; now, our WWII veterans are few and far between.
My father was in the Korean War and most of them are now gone.
Something I always thought rather peculiar - but not at all surprising, in his vast family, he was the only one to ever be drafted or serve in the military, including WWI, WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam.
He was the first one to ever see and use a flush toilet and the first to ever see and use a telephone.
He had achieved rank of Sargent First Class; when it came time for him to return to the states, he had enough rank to have the option of returning on a plane or waiting and return on the same ship that brought him there.
(I am not a knowledgeable plane person - C-130 I think)
He opted to wait for the ship.
The plane went down somewhere in the Pacific and lost all on board. On another note, when I just now "Like" your post --- always on a desk-top --- for whatever reason it says "via mobile"; I wonder why it decided to think my desk-top was something mobile. |
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Post by hmca on Jul 22, 2022 16:49:07 GMT
On another note, when I just now "Like" your post --- always on a desk-top --- for whatever reason it says "via mobile"; I wonder why it decided to think my desk-top was something mobile. I think that is referring to Judy's (Blackmutt) post being via mobile....not your like. |
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Post by blackmutt on Jul 23, 2022 1:31:25 GMT
Yes Helen I do believe you are correct. I was on my phone posting my reply to Buckskin.
My family is the opposite, Buckskin; all the males were in the service. Navy mostly. WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. All made it back in one piece. 😀after sinking three ships.
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