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IsglpiMKiBArtFirst Step of Voyage4 ■ »The famed aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown fs solemnly the first.carrier at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime rowed beneath Verrazano Bridge on the first step of her Museum. (UP! Telephoto} voyage to Charleston, S.C., whore she will be preserved as ’•* *■Fighting Lady’Begins New IJfe; By FBED FERGUSON jBAYONNE', N.J. (UP1 -'The Fighting Lady'* won her fame. to the - Pacific during World War II. The Lady today is in retirement —but neither gone nor forgollen.•Joey Sharkey Jr.; 12. and his bfother, Kenny, 10, watched tl|e 32-year-old aircraft carrier Yorktown turned over to South Carolina Monday and decided her future as a museum was a good thing. i'TJic toys, dressed iri their Sunday , best, .'accompanied their father, who was 10 when he saw action bn 'The Fighting Lady in the Pacific in. World War II. to the York town's flight deck for the ceremony. Then tugs set out to tow her on a week-long ybyage to Charleston.!-T wish they could keep it here,” said Joey, to1 whom South Carolina' seemed .far. away from his North Babylon.-N;Y., home.•/'But'I guess It's a good thing they are laking il so the young pcople;will knowhow it was in the Second World War.’*Battleships and other naval vessels have been established 53 war memorials and museums. but the Yorktown, with Id WWII battle stars and service off Korea and .Vietnam, is the first carrier scheduled for that end.Five tugs nosed her down New York flarhor on (he start of the 700-mile Journey, from her berth beside two sister carriers, their paint pecfing cud their futures the scrap heap. They arc the Essex and the Shangri-La. The Randolph was towed off for scrap last week.Yorktown will become the central Vessel in the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime. Museum, under development in Charleston Harbor, a project for which; the South Carolina Legislature .has ‘appropriated $3;. million for starters, -j.if-W . • Joe'Sharkey and ftuir other “plankowners.’’ veteranswho were among the crew when the 40,000-ioo ship was commissioned April 4. 1943, joined a South Carolina delegation on the flight deck where young Joey's point that the carrier's ' preservation would help future generations understand a major part of the nation’s history was made repeatedly.Rear Arina, Herman :J. Kossler, Ret., executive director of Tiio Patriots Point Authority, spoke of a $192,090 paint job fo be slarted on the York town's arrival at the newly -dredged berth beside the 500-acre Patriots Point development.“We're going to mnke her look like she did years ago,” said Kossler, who commanded a submarine that sunk a. Japanese carrier, in The Ma-• riannas fighting where ‘The Fighting Lady1' won jnutfi of. her tome. :“She is;going (a be treated as a lady should be fn South Carolina —with tender lovingcare and respect, said thatstate's lieutenant governor, Brantley Harvey Jr. He signed a paper, accepling delivery of the Yorktown from the Navy. ,Ed Sarkisian, a marine sergeant, pointed to where aKamikaze pilot dropped abomb from which Sarkisian received shrapnel in his leg. He said , (he Japanese then tried to dive his plane into the ship and crashed in flames in the sea instead.Charles Hyatt, chairman of llie Patriots Point Authority, told of plans to purchase airplanes for display, aboard “The Fighting Lady and to show the motion pleture of .that name lu her visitors.James T. Bryan Jr., of Veterans USS Yorktown As-- 4 . ,sociallon, said theirjiext rcu-; nron would be aboard (heir own ship when , she is dedicated Oct. 13, ^.the 200th 'anniversary of the.Navy. He said President Ford and Navy Secretary J. William Midden-dor! were invited to attend. •
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Nashua, New Hampshire, US
Wed, Jun 11, 1975
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