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From: clay@swbatl.sbc.com (Patrick Clay - 529-7760)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: USS Wisconsin
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Date: 21 Aug 90 02:43:44 GMT
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From: clay@swbatl.sbc.com (Patrick Clay - 529-7760)
In article <1990Aug14.033546.8342@cbnews.att.com> wb9omc@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick) writes:
>
>>>From: voder!nsc!dtg.nsc.com!worden@decwrl.dec.com (Dennis Worden)
>>I am interested in the fourth Iowa Class Battleship, the 
>>USS Wisconsin.  The other three have been recommissioned,
>>The Iowa, New Jersey and Missouri, but I haven't heard
>>anything about the Wisconsin.
>	Wisconsin was also recommissioned and will probably be one of the
>	two that WON'T get mothballed (cry, whimper....).
>

The Wisconsin and other battleships from WWII did participate in a few
shore bombardment missions off Japan near the end of the war. You might
be interested to know that Wisconsin just passed through the Suez Canal
a couple of days ago on its way to the Gulf of Oman, and maybe from
there to the Persian Gulf. I don't envy the Iraqis facing off against
that! (There were some stories floating around that her anti-ship cruise
missiles were removed and replaced with land attack versions prior to
leaving port.)

--Patrick Clay
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clay@swbatl:		Patrick Clay - 529-7760