Something different today as we traveled to Patriots Point. Here we toured the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown “The Fighting Lady”. It served in WWII and Vietnam.

Alongside the Yorktown was the Submarine USS Clamagore the last diesel submarine before the introduction of nuclear submarines. It served for 30 years off the coast of Key West, Charleston and New London. It is in bad repair and there are no funds for the repair and will shortly be taken to sea and sunk to be used for scuba training.

We also toured the destroyer USS Laffey “The Ship That Would Not Die”. There was an interesting movie showing the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and Okinawa.

On site was a very nice exhibit, The Vietnam Experience.