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Originally Posted by Mylander
If anyone is in the southeast, Charleston, SC to be specific, they have a great maritime museum at Patriot's Point in Mount Pleasant. They have Clamagore (Balao class SS) CV-10 Yorktown, and DD Laffey (picket DD hit by multiple bombs and Kamikazes off of Okinawa and made it back to the west coast under her own steam) "The ship that would not die".
Lots of cool aircraft on Yorktown - F4U, F4F, TBF, F6F, B-25 and others last time I was there. Well worth a day or a weekend!
Regards,
Mylander
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Saw all those when I visited my Dad (who is working in Aiken on projects for the Savannah River site ). Didn't get a chance to tour any of them as we did the Charleston Harbor River Cruise that evening. Had our Weekend there shortened due to my dad's on-going internal bleeding (which has since been fixed; Thin-walled artery in his I-T ). We went back the next weekend for the Sumpter Tour and checked out the H.L Hunley. I could have all kinds of fun back there. I also really wanted to go into that Vietnam Display, as it features a PBR much like the one my dad spent time on the Me Kong(sp) Delta during that war. (He started out as the Radioman, ended up the Turret Gunner
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I didn't recognize the Clamagore in her Guppy config though.