From the April 5, 2017, Treasure Coast Palm "USS Arizona relic to be presented to Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla" by Hank Cushard.
The USCG Auxiliary Flotilla 59 at Stuart, Florida was formed April 11, 1942 to combat the menace of German U-boats off the Florida coast in the first months of the war. As such, the group marks their 75th anniversary today.
Members of the group during the war rode horseback along beaches looking for U-boat activity or ships or persons in distress. They manned the tower at House of Refuge on Hutchinson island and had offshore patrols.
In 1986, a member of the group, Captain Spence Kidd, brother of Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who commanded the USS Arizona at Pearl harbor and whose body was never recovered, donated a model of the USS Arizona to the group.
The USS Arizona relic will be given to the group on April 29. Unfortunately, the article did not say what the relic was and I was unable to find out in other sources what it might be.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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