| NJ/IPMS helps USS Des Moines (CA-134) preservation efforts |
NJ/IPMS recently send a $200 check to help with the effort to bring the USS Des Moines to the Milwaukee waterfront. We hope the group can get past the nay-sayers and bring DesMoines to the Great Lakes! |
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From the USS Des Moines website: The USS Des Moines (CA-134) is the last of the Navy's World War II class heavy gun cruisers. She is presently in mothballs at the Naval shipyard in Philadelphia and is tugging at her hawsers to get underway just one more time for a final voyage to Milwaukee County's Veterans Park where she will be permanently displayed as a historic naval ship. Philadelphia has been her home since 1961. In
the very near future, the ship will either find a new home in Milwaukee or
the Navy will tow her out to sea to sink her by torpedo and rocket fire as
a target ship. What a tragic ending for an outstanding keeper of the
peace. |
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For more information, contact: Milwaukee - USS Des Moines Historic Naval Ship Project, Inc. Post Office Box 144 Greendale, Wisconsin 53129-0144 |