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Will be VERY interested to see the answers to this...
Posted by Lynn on Thu May 29, 2003 10:51:48 PM
In reply top Recent Contact With History In Person posted by Mike Henniger on Thu May 29, 2003 06:27:46 PM
as the Yorktown (*both* of them) has a bit of personal significance for our family. My late grandfather served his apprenticeship at Newport News Shipbuilding by helping lay the deck of CV-5, and later became part of the Hull Drawing team, where he helped work on carriers from CV-8 Hornet on through the Nimitz class, all the way until he passed away from a heart attack running up a flight of stairs at work in the mid-70s. I wish I could've known him better- oh, the stories he could have told...
So, if there *are* Yorktown veteran airframes out there, I would love to know about it (and I suspect the good folks at Patriot Point would as well).
Lynn