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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is currently a museum ship.Completed in 1944, the ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Philippines campaign and the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
TF 38 continued to exist, but as a command structure only. TF 58 proved the success of the Fast Carrier TF concept with Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air squadrons and surface vessels attack on the Japanese ships and airfield at Truk Lagoon on 17–18 February 1944. As Task Force 38, maneuvering off the Japanese coast, 17 August 1945
Wisconsin reported two injured sailors as a result of the typhoon, but otherwise proved her seaworthiness as she escaped the storm unscathed." -> "On 18 December 1944, Task Force 38 unexpectedly found themselves in a fight for their lives when Typhoon Cobra overtook them during a refuelling attempt at sea.
His next command was another Evarts-class, USS Donaldson, which he sailed from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Islands. [1] In May 1944, Plage assumed his third command, the John C. Butler-class destroyer escort USS Tabberer, upon its commission in Houston. After sea trials, the "Tabby" was sent to the Pacific in the Anzio group of TF 38.
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English: The battleships USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in mothball storage at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvanina (USA), on 8 July 1978. Visible on the left is the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CVS-38).
A 15-year-old girl opened fire in the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, killing a teacher and a student and wounding six others at the school she had attended ...
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