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Day_108_-_Vietnam Bass, Mess_Hall by jl98584
This is what a chow hall might have looked like at a typical US Army base in Vietnam during the war.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Huts by jl98584
The huts on the right were constructed out of plywood, on the left were metal containers painted green and used as huts
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Entrance by jl98584
Patriots Point contains a full mock up of a typical US Army Base in Vietnam as it might have looked during the Vietnam War
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_Vietnam Base, Ammo_Bunker by jl98584
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight_Deck1 by jl98584
This is just a small sample of the military airpcraft on display on the USS Yorktown.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Plane on Flight_Deck by jl98584
I think this is a Corsair?
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Pilot Briefing_Room1 by jl98584
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.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight Deck_F14 by jl98584
This was through a hatch (door) on the Bridge.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Flight Deck F14 from Bridge by jl98584
A view of the F14 from the Bridge as the Captain would have seen it.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Yorktown, Elevator by jl98584
This is now used as the main entrance to the hanger deck, where the museum is located.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore,_Galley by jl98584
Like all other space on the submarine, the galley is very cramped
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Torpedo_Room by jl98584
This is the forward torpedo room. Sixteen crew lived in this cramped space.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Distilling_Plant by jl98584
The submarine had to make it's own fresh water out of sea water, which this machine did.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Deck by jl98584
The Clamagore was built in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975, one of the last diesel powered submarines in the US Fleet when she retired.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Contol_Room by jl98584
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.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Clamagore, Conning _Tower by jl98584
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, XO_Qtrs by jl98584
Compared to the XO Qtrs on the submarine, this is quite luxurious.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USCG Ingham, Hatches by jl98584
After touring the submarine, the hatches on the Coast Guard Cutter seem quite large and spaceous
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USCG Cutter_Ingham by jl98584
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.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_Patriots_Point Sign by jl98584
This is a list of what ships and other displays are located across the bridge from historic Charleston.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_USS Laffey by jl98584
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.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_Friendship_7 by jl98584
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.
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, JL at Controls by jl98584
You can actually climb into the cockpit of this aircraft and play around with the controls
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_F9 Cougar, Cockpit by jl98584
Hmm, I wonder whose knees those could be?
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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Day_108_-_F9F_Cougar by jl98584
If you look carefully, you can see part of a ladder on the other side of the cockpit. This one you can climb into!
- 18 December 2007 - Wappo Heights, USA
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