http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/29/chicago-u-505/ Thoughts and musings Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/06/29/chicago-u-505/comment-page-1/#comment-218724 cobolhacker Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:18:37 +0000 http://www.coverfire.com/?p=321#comment-218724 A couple of years back I did <a href="http://www.patriotspoint.org/" rel="nofollow">Patriots Point</a> in South Carolina. Very cool. In addition to having a whole WWII aircraft carrier to run around in (the USS Yorktown CV-10), you can also take a trip through the USS Laffey DD-724 "the ship that would not die" and the USS Clamagore SS-343, an American WWII attack sub which is quite intact, having seen no real action. The Laffey, on the other hand, saw a lot of action. During the opening phases of the Okinawa invasion, The Japanese kicked the living crap out of it with bombs and kamikaze strikes but they just couldn't sink it. A couple of years back I did Patriots Point in South Carolina. Very cool. In addition to having a whole WWII aircraft carrier to run around in (the USS Yorktown CV-10), you can also take a trip through the USS Laffey DD-724 “the ship that would not die” and the USS Clamagore SS-343, an American WWII attack sub which is quite intact, having seen no real action. The Laffey, on the other hand, saw a lot of action. During the opening phases of the Okinawa invasion, The Japanese kicked the living crap out of it with bombs and kamikaze strikes but they just couldn’t sink it.

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