Wisconsin Square is a small park on Norfolk, Virginia's Elizabeth River waterfront, opposite the berth of the berth of the USS Wisconsin, a museum ship. It contains memorials to the seamen lost while serving on United States Navy ships homeported in Norfolk.
It also contains the ship's bell of USS Norfolk (DL-1) and a copy of The Lone Sailor.[1]
Memorials
Wisconsin Square contains memorials to fallen US Navy personnel that were home ported in Norfolk.
- USS Kearsarge (CV-33), 30 sailors lost in 1948[2]
- USS Forrestal (CV-59), for those lost in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire
- USS Liberty (AGTR-5), for those killed in the 1967 USS Liberty incident
- USS Scorpion (SSN-589), lost with all hands in 1968
- USS Newport News (CA-148), for crew lost in a 1972 misfire
- USS Nimitz (CVN-68), for the crew lost in the 1981 flight deck crash
- USS Iowa (BB-61), for the crew lost in the 1989 turret explosion
- USS Cole (DDG-67), for the crew lost in the 2000 suicide bombing
- The Pentagon, September 11, 2001
References
- ^ "Wisconsin Square on Downtown Norfolk".
- ^ "MONUMENT TO KEARSAGE DEATHS READIED FOR WISCONSIN SQUARE". Archived from the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
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