12 March 2010
NEWSLETTER

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USS Wisconsin BB-64 Reunion
September 7-12, 2010
Olympia Resort, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

_City of Oconomowoc Home Page
Our reunion website is now active.
To access it, click on the following:

www.militaryreunionplanners.com/wisconsin

Please READ the instructions carefully!  Everyone has the option of registering online and paying with a credit card (which incurs fees for processing) or the forms can be printed and mailed in to Military Reunion Planners, with no additional processing fees.  We will be posting attendees on our weekly newsletter since the attendees’ info will not be online until 4 months before the reunion.  There is a link to our weekly newsletters on the attendee page.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU

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Please keep your email address up to date with LaDonna
even if you don’t want it posted online.

  Please contact LaDonna Bradshaw,
bb64members@aol.com. Or (601) 693-4614
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       FROM MY PERSONAL LOG

On This Day, March 12th  
1952 My personal log starts when I came aboard Dec. 22, 1952
1953 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Feb.14th to Mar.30th

1954 Sendai, Japan (5 hours) Mar. 11th  Yokosuka, Japan Mar. 12th to Mar. 17th  

1955 Norfolk, VA. Mar. 4th to Mar. 21st

1956 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Mar.5th to Mar. 14th  At sea Mar.14th -16th  Cartagena, Colombia
         Mar. 16th to Mar. 19th

My personal log ended when I was transferred off the ship on June 20, 1956 to be discharged.

 

 

REINSTATED  MEMBER

 

 

Harold McDonald

SN                         3rd                             Division

1953-1956

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMAIL ADDRESS ADDITION NON MEMBERS

 

 

Eric Alston

E3                          2nd                             Division

1988-1991

 

William Charboneau

MMC                      M                               Division

1988-1992

 

 

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM

 

MEMBER

 

DATE OF DEATH

 

Charles Kern

F1/C             E       Division             1945

2/3/2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


If you are interested in Naval covers and postmarks, then you may be interested in the following;


The following was received from Mr. Glenn Smith and is self explanatory.
I am a member of the Universal Ship Cancellation Society (USCS), which is an international organization of 1200+ men and women, founded in 1932, who collect naval covers (postal pieces cancelled aboard Navy & Coast Guard ships and Marine Corps bases). We are committed to keeping alive the histories of the fine ships of our Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard team, and the men & women who serve in them.

To learn more about our society, please visit our web site at: www.uscs.org.  If anyone wants more information about collecting naval covers and the USCS, they may contact me directly.

Another web site that might be interesting to some of your shipmates is the Naval Cover Museum (http://www.navalcovermuseum.org /), which is an on-line collection of naval covers, and Battleship Wisconsin has its own page there. Just click on "Enter the New Museum," and then put Wisconsin in the search block, and it will pop up!

Best regards,

Glenn Smith

Mayor, Borough of Orrstown, Pennsylvania

Past District Governor, Rotary International

Lieutenant Commander (Deck LDO), United States Navy (Retired)

Former QMCM(SS), Former CWO4 (Boatswain)

3571 Orrstown Road

Orrstown, PA 17244

717-300-5429

highlandglenn@kuhncom.net

 

 

I have also added this to our “BULLETIN BOARD” page on our website.


 

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PLEASE REMEMBER TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRAYERS,
OUR SICK AND DEPARTED SHIPMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS