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Tuesday 28 September 2010

WWII gunboat museum proposed for Petaluma

By LORI A. CARTER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Much like the men who served aboard them during World War II, the Mighty Midgets are a dying breed.




One hundred and thirty Landing Craft Support gunboats were built in 1944 and 1945.

The last one afloat is moored at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, its 11 inactive guns and 10 rocket launchers pointing harmlessly skyward.

But if a group of aging WWII veterans can pull it off, LCS(L) 102 may someday be berthed in the Petaluma River as a museum to honor the powerful little ships' contributions to the Pacific Theater of operations.

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