28 January 2011
NEWSLETTER
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you can purchase these calendars for $6.00, including postage.
Checks or money orders need to be made payable to the USS Wisconsin Association
 and mailed to, PO BOX 227 Marion, MS  3942.  

    This offer is available to non members also.

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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 DOM MENTA’S PERSONAL LOG

On This Day, January 28th       
1952 My personal log starts when I came aboard Dec. 22, 1952. The ship was in Portsmouth, VA.
1953 Portsmouth, VA. Oct.1952 – Feb. 11, 1953
1954 Yokosuka, Japan  Jan. 24 – Feb. 4th

1955 At Sea Jan. 29 – Feb. 1st  

1956 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba  Jan. 27 – Feb. 7th    

 

 

 

NEW MEMBER

 

 

David Whitt

RMCS(SW/AW)           OC              Division

1988-1992

 

 

REINSTATED MEMBER

 

 

Gerald B. Amstrong

DT3                              DH              Division

1957-1958

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM

 

 

NON MEMBER

 

DATE OF DEATH

 

Frank Cornagie

FT3       FA       Division      1951-1955   

January 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WISCONSIN ARTICLE ON FACEBOOK

Bill Bartel of the Virginian Pilot, left me a phone message to call him, this was on Dec.15th. When I called him, he told me he was writing an article about the art work that’s on the Wisconsin and if I knew who the artists were. I told him the only artist I knew were the two crew members that painted the mural in the ladies bathroom on the main deck. He said he knew who they were and was interested in who did the rest of the artwork.

Even though I could not help him, we had a nice conversation about the ship and the artwork. 
 I was surprised to see that he mentioned me in his article.

If any of our third generation crew members who reads this newsletter, if you happen to know the names of the other Wisconsin artists, please email me at , dombb64@ptd.net , thanks.

The following link was found on facebook by my daughter Donna.  My two daughters, Debbie and Donna are always on the lookout for news about their dad’s ship. 
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/01/art-guts-battleship-wisconsin

 

 



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OUR SICK AND DEPARTED SHIPMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS