13 JANUARY 2012
NEWSLETTER
OUR 13TH
AT THE SHERATON NORFOLK WATERSIDE HOTEL
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
Reunion website is now active
on our website home page, www.usswisconsin.org
and on
our newsletters. To access, click on the following:
www.militaryreunionplanners.com/wisconsin
Please
READ the instructions carefully!
Hotel
reservation information, Events information, payment methods,
airport transportation, parking and how to submit your completed forms are
covered on the reunion website.
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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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EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE |
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FC3 FA Division |
1944-1945 |
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IN MEMORIAM |
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NON MEMBER |
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DATE OF DEATH |
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Patrick J. Rose, Jr. |
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Division unknown 1951-1952 |
12/15/2011 |
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PORT
HOLES The word "port
hole" originated during the reign of Henry VI of England (1485). King
Henry insisted on mounting guns too large for his ship and the traditional
methods of securing these weapons on the forecastle and aftcastle
could not be used. A French shipbuilder named James Baker was commissioned to
solve the problem. He put small doors in the side of the ship and mounted the
cannon inside the ship. These doors protected the cannon from weather and
were opened when the cannon were to be used. The French word for
"door" is "porte" which was
later Anglicized to "port" and later went on to mean any opening in
the ship's side, whether for cannon or not. |
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FACEBOOK INFORMATION
If you are a Facbook
member, you may want to check out the following two Facebook
pages;
I Served on USS Wisconsin BB-64 USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Reunion 2012
Neither of these two pages are
association pages. Pages were started by former crew members wanting to
rekindle shipboard friendship.
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