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Karen and Lee Duquette's FLASHBACK

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Several USS Naval Ships - Museum Ships

In 1975 - Lee and KarenLee Duquette and their children, walked past USS Joseph P. Kennedy, JR (DD-850) to go on board the USS Massachusetts.
Lee, Brian and Renee Duquette

The USS Massachusetts went to several wars and when she returned to the United States, she was decommissioned and assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk in 1947. She remained out of service until 1962, when she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. Three years later, she was transferred to the Massachusetts Memorial Committee and preserved as a "museum ship" at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. Some material was removed in the 1980s to reactivate the Iowa-class battleships, but the ship otherwise remains in her wartime configuration. For more information on this ship, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Massachusetts_(BB-59)
Renee, Karen and Brian Duquette

Below: Renee and Brian Duquette on the USS Massachusetts' turret
Brian and Renee Duquette at the guns Brian and Renee Duquette at the guns
Renee and Briand Duquette on USS Massachusetts Renee, Lee and Brian Duquette on Renee and Briand Duquette on USS Massachusetts
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Below: The USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia (1975)
postcard of USS Norfolk Karen Duquette at the USS Norfolk mermaid
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USS Wisconsin BB-64-sign
Karen and Lee Duquette in front of USS Norfolk USS Wisconsin info
USS Wisconsin BB-64 and Karen Duquette USS Wisconsin BB-64
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Below: 1981 - San Jacinto Battleground in Houston, Texas and Battleship Texas
Battleship Texas information Karen and Lee Duquette at the turret
Brian and Renee Duquette

Below: The 567-foot tall San Jacinto Monument
The 567-foot tall San Jacinto Monument
Renee Duquette Brian Duquete
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Below: The USS Texas (BB-35) - The "museum ship" at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Park. It is 573 feet in length.
The museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Park
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Norfolk, Virginia is a home to Naval Station Norfolk, a massive naval base on Chesapeake Bay. Nauticus is a maritime museum that features the Battleship Wisconsin, a huge WWII Warship.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
postcard of USS Wisconsin (BB-64) about USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Karen Duquette at Battleship Wisconsin Karen and Lee Duquette at Battleship Wisconsin

Below: Norfolk River (postcards)
Norfolk of the Virginia Waterfront Norfolk River postcard
Norfolk River postcard
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