Photos tagged as museums and patriots_point

Day_108_-_Vietnam Bass, Mess_Hall

This is what a chow hall might have looked like at a typical US Army base in Vietnam during the war.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military vietnam patriots_point
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Huts

The huts on the right were constructed out of plywood, on the left were metal containers painted green and used as huts

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military patriots_point vietnam_war
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Entrance

Patriots Point contains a full mock up of a typical US Army Base in Vietnam as it might have looked during the Vietnam War

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military vietnam patriots_point
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Ammo_Bunker

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military vietnam patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight_Deck1

This is just a small sample of the military airpcraft on display on the USS Yorktown.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships aircraft yorktown patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Plane on Flight_Deck

I think this is a Corsair?

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Pilot Briefing_Room1

This room is set up as it might have looked during the Yorktown's active deployment, complete with PFD's (Life Jackets), Plane Numbers, etc.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight Deck_F14

This was through a hatch (door) on the Bridge.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight Deck F14 from Bridge

A view of the F14 from the Bridge as the Captain would have seen it.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Elevator

This is now used as the main entrance to the hanger deck, where the museum is located.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums military ships patriots_point
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore,_Galley

Like all other space on the submarine, the galley is very cramped

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Torpedo_Room

This is the forward torpedo room. Sixteen crew lived in this cramped space.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Distilling_Plant

The submarine had to make it's own fresh water out of sea water, which this machine did.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Deck

The Clamagore was built in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975, one of the last diesel powered submarines in the US Fleet when she retired.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Contol_Room

You can't actually look through the periscope on this submarine. Instead they have a display showing what you would see if you looked through the periscope. Odd.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships submarines patriots_point naval clamagore
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Conning _Tower

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, XO_Qtrs

Compared to the XO Qtrs on the submarine, this is quite luxurious.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, Hatches

After touring the submarine, the hatches on the Coast Guard Cutter seem quite large and spaceous

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_USCG Cutter_Ingham

This US Coast Guard Cutter was built in 1934 and remained in service until 1988. She received two Presidential Unit Citations, the only Coast Guard vessel to do so.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_Patriots_Point Sign

This is a list of what ships and other displays are located across the bridge from historic Charleston.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_USS Laffey

The USS Laffey is a Destroyer that took part in D-Day and Okinawa. In the latter, she survived 5 Kamikazi and 3 bomb hits in a 90 minute time span.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_Friendship_7

This was on the hanger deck museum portion of the USS Yorktown. I didn't read the sign carefully enough, I believe it is only a replica (?) of John Glenn's spacecraft, the original is in Washington D.C. He was the first person to Orbit the earth from Space.

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, JL at Controls

You can actually climb into the cockpit of this aircraft and play around with the controls

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, Cockpit

Hmm, I wonder whose knees those could be?

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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Day_108_-_F9F_Cougar

If you look carefully, you can see part of a ladder on the other side of the cockpit. This one you can climb into!

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Charleston, USA: gallery
• Tags: museums ships patriots_point naval
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