USS Yorktown January 28, 2017

We visited the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier / museum in Mount Pleasant, just across the harbor from Charleston. This ship was commissioned in 1943 and named after one sunk at the battle of Midway in WWII. It also served in WWII and Vietnam. Surprising just how big these ships are. We wandered around for a couple hours watching WWII films and taking walking tours of various parts of the ship. Interesting to see how they handled the needs of daily

life like food prep, barber, dentist, doctor, etc. The ship was a floating city with 3500 inhabitants.