USS Nicholas (DD-449) & USS O'Bannon (DD-450) Escort USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Tonkin Gulf (March 1968)
HOME PORT: Pearl Harbor
Bill Linn arranged a crew to dislodge the mast from its foundation, hoist it out with a crane, cut it into three sections for transport on a flatbed semi-truck and haul to its new location at the Veterans Memorial Museum from Portland on the Columbia River up Interstate Highway 5 about 80 miles north.The process took two days...