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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 .
It was the first loss of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, the worst disaster involving a Martin 2-0-2 to date, and with 37 fatalities, still ranks as the worst air crash in Wisconsin history. [ 189 ] On November 18, 1966, the crew departed Barksdale AFB , Louisiana, in B-52G (tail number 58‑0228) on a training flight to K. I. Sawyer AFB south of ...
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
On the night of 14/15 July, another bombardment unit—TU 34.8.2—was detached from TF 38 to attack Muroran on the south-east coast of Hokkaido. TU 34.8.2 was commanded by Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger and comprised the battleships Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin, the light cruisers Atlanta and Dayton, and eight destroyers.
CHERRY HILL — Police are reporting a fatal accident on Route 38 here. The incident involving a pedestrian occurred on the highway around 11:10 p.m. Friday, according to New Jersey State Police.
Jamie Rokus, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune September 1, 2024 at 9:12 AM BIRON − A 28-year-old Wisconsin Rapids man is dead after a motorcycle crash with a vehicle Saturday evening in the town ...
Two U. S. Navy Consolidated patrol bombers crash off Oahu, H. I., in separate accidents. Five are killed in the first crash, six in the second. Five are killed in the first crash, six in the second. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] PBY-1 Catalina , BuNo 0142 , of VP-4 , [ 129 ] crashes and sinks ~200 yards offshore at Kaena Point at ~0405 hrs., while en route to ...
Getty Images/iStockphoto. A 19-year-old woman was found dead miles away from the scene of a rollover crash that launched her and several others out of the vehicle, Wisconsin officials told news ...