Karen
and Lee Duquette's FLASHBACK
 
Several USS Naval Ships - Museum Ships
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In 1975 - Lee and Karen Duquette
and their children, Renee and Brian Duquette, walked past USS Joseph
P. Kennedy, JR (DD-850) to go on board the USS Massachusetts. |
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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)
But be sure to return to this page, or finish this page before using
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Below: Renee and Brian Duquette
on the USS Massachusetts' turret |
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Below: The USS Wisconsin
in Norfolk, Virginia (1975) |
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Below: 1981 - San Jacinto
Battleground in Houston, Texas and Battleship Texas |
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Below: Renee and Brian Duquette |
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Below: The 567-foot tall
San Jacinto Monument |
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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. |
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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.
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) |
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Below: Norfolk River (postcards) |
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