The Patriots Point museum in Charleston SC contains the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, the destroyer USS Laffey, the submarine USS Clagamore—all from the WW2 and Cold War eras—and an exhibit about the Vietnam War. I spent the whole day here.
Some photos from a visit.
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan and am traveling around the country, posting photo diaries of places that I have visited. :)
Taking the water taxi across the harbor to the Yorktown
The maritime equivalent of “parallel parking”
USS Laffey. At Okinawa, while on radar picket duty, she was attacked by over 20 kamikaze planes and hit five times, killing and wounding one-third of the crew.
USS Clagamore
“The Vietnam Experience” recreates an American firebase at Khe Sanh
CV-10 is the second carrier named “Yorktown”—the first was sunk at the pivotal Battle of Midway
On the flight deck
This angled flight deck was added post-WW2, to allow planes to take off and land at the same time
The “island”
Captain’s chair on the bridge
View of the flight deck
Pilot’s briefing room
Aircraft control room
The hangar deck, now used to display airplanes from the carrier’s time period
Mockup of Apollo 8 command module—“Yorktown” was the recovery vessel