Uss Wisconsin Shooting
The wisconsin national guard was deployed to kenosha on monday in advance of more protests expected after a man appeared to have been shot several times in the back by the city s police on.
Uss wisconsin shooting. Although it came late to the war it did serve in the pacific theater and dealt some damage to the japanese with her 16in mark 7 guns. State of wisconsin she was built at the philadelphia naval shipyard in philadelphia pennsylvania and launched on 7 december 1943 the second anniversary of the pearl harbor raid sponsored by the wife of governor walter goodland of wisconsin. Uss wisconsin photographed at sea in her 1980s configuration. Wisconsin fired 11 rounds and destroyed an iraqi artillery battery located in southern kuwait.
Washington the u s. Uss missouri fires her 16 inch guns the iowa class battleships were the most heavily armed gunships the united states navy has ever put to sea due to the continual development of their onboard weaponry. Uss wisconsin bb 64 is an iowa class battleship the second ship of the united states navy to be named in honor of the u s. Protesters set cars on fire smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear after kenosha police shot and wounded a black man apparently in the back while responding to a.
Wisconsin s first fire mission was called in by an ov10 marine observation aircraft shortly after the battleship s arrival on station. An officer on monday shot an armed 17 year old at a high school classroom in waukesha wisconsin a milwaukee suburb police said. February 6 wisconsin relieved sistership uss missoui bb 63 on the gunline near the kuwait border. Department of justice announced wednesday evening that a federal civil rights investigation has been opened into the shooting of jacob blake in kenosha wisconsin over the.