Wisconsin Square

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Template:Short description Wisconsin Square is a small park on Norfolk, Virginia's Elizabeth River waterfront, opposite the berth of the berth of the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., 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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and a copy of The Lone Sailor.[1]

Memorials

Wisconsin Square contains memorials to fallen US Navy personnel that were home ported in Norfolk.

  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., 30 sailors lost in 1948[2]
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for those lost in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for those killed in the 1967 USS Liberty incident
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., lost with all hands in 1968
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for crew lost in a 1972 misfire
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for the crew lost in the 1981 flight deck crash
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for the crew lost in the 1989 turret explosion
  • Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., for the crew lost in the 2000 suicide bombing
  • The Pentagon, September 11, 2001

References

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