Happy 76th Birthday Battleship USS Wisconsin

From the April 16, 2020, We Are the Mighty Blog "World War II battleship celebrates 76th birthday" by Jessica Manfre.

Congress authorized her construction in 1939 and work started on her in 1941 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.  The Wisconsin was launched on the second anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1943.  It was commissioned  April 16, 1944.  She fought in WW II in the Pacific, earning five Battle Stars with actions at Luzon, Formosa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan.

Decommissioned after the war, she was recommissioned for the Korean War and later, the Gulf War.  Finally, decommissioned for a third time, she sat in mothballs before becoming a permanent museum ship at Norfolk, Virginia, where she is today.

Happy Birthday Big Wis..  --GreGen

The 21st Field Artillery-- Part 2

**  Activated 6 October 1939 at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

**  Reorganized and redesignated 1 October 1940 as the 21st Field Artillery Battalion.

**  Inactivated (less Batteries B and C) 20 September 1946 at Ladd Field, Alaska.  (B and C Batteries inactivated at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

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World War I:  St. Mihiel, Lorraine, 1918

World War II:  Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Alsace and Central Europe

Vietnam War

Persian Gulf War

--GreGen