28 MARCH 2008

NEWSLETTER

 

OUR WEB SITE TURNED 10 YEARS OLD ON MARCH 10TH
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REUNION DATES

Our next reunion will be August 26-31, 2008 in Norfolk, VA with our ship.                       
 Additional information, forms, etc. will be in the April Badger

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Anyone wanting to propose a reunion site for 2010, please contact Ed Gavin or Tom Bradshaw

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Please check your April Badger address label.  If it says “THIS IS YOUR LAST BADGER”,
 please contact LaDonna Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601) 693-6096
 If you have not paid your dues or verified your Active Duty status, you will be removed from the Badger mailing list and the membership roster.
 Please keep your email address up to date with LaDonna even if you don’t want it posted online.

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We are looking for a volunteer piper for our reunion memorial service.
You can contact Bill Lewis by email at bbb64usmc@yahoo.com or by phone (845) 528 -7987
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PENDING APPLICATION

Susan Peterson

Daughter of Gene Funderburke

1952-1955

 

 

 

EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE

Richard Criswell

BT3                  B        Division

1987-1991

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM

MEMBER                                                                                                               DATE OF DEATH

Ralph H. Gillum

FC2      FA     Division    1944-1945

3/8/2008

 

 

 

NON MEMBER

Joseph Louis Joiner

S2/C      Div. Unknown   1945-1946

8/2007

 

 

 

FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS SHIPMATES


WEB SITE PHOTOS

I have added 16 photos of the USS Wisconsin testing out the floating dry dock, AFDB-1 at Apra Harbor, Guam, on April 5, 1952.

These 16 pictures (slides) were taken by DCC George Penning and submitted by DC1 Gordon McKay, dock basin PO.

To view them go to Pictures, click on 1950s Pictures Page 11. They are numbered 1156 to 1171.