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| USS
Wisconsin |
USS Wisconsin (BB64)
History
| Date |
Event |
| 25 January 1941 |
Keel Laid |
| 7 December 1943 |
Launched |
| 6 April 1944 |
Commissioned |
| 24 September 1944 |
Pacific Operations |
| 1 July 1948 |
Decommissioned |
| 3 March 1951 |
Recommissioned for Korean Operations |
| 15 March 1952 |
Hit by Shore Battery 6 Inch, Returned two 16 Inch Hits |
| 6 May 1956 |
Collides with DD Eaton off Norfolk |
| 22 May 1956 |
Bow repaired with section from incomplete Kentucky |
| 8 March 1958 |
Decommissioned |
| 22 October 1988 |
Recommissioned |
| August 1990 |
Deployed off Iraq |
| 15 January 1991 |
Serves as Tomahawk Strike-warfare Center, Desert Storm |
| 28 February 1991 |
Fired Last Naval Gunfire during Desert Storm |
| 28 March 1991 |
Returned to Norfolk |
| 3 September 1991 |
Decommissioned |
| 12 January 1995 |
Stricken from Navy roster, disposition pending |
October 1996 |
Towed to Norfolk, Virginia to make room for other
priorities in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. |
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