Battleship Wisconsin Gets Recommissioned by Navy
Associated Press
PASCAGOULA, Miss. —
The battleship Wisconsin, which received a nearly $449-million overhaul, was recommissioned Saturday.
It will join three other World War II battleships that were modernized and returned to service--the Iowa, New Jersey and Missouri. The ship will be based in Norfolk, Va., until construction is completed on a new naval base in Texas. It will have a crew of 1,600.
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