Fun announcement at Cleveland.com:
The USS Cod Submarine Memorial on
North Marginal Drive will celebrate the sub's 75th birthday with a deck-gun
salute and cake in ceremonies Thursday at 2 p.m.
. . .
The Cod, now a National Historic
Landmark on Cleveland's waterfront, was launched on June 21, 1943, as part of
the Navy's fleet of more than 250 submarines during World War II.
During the war, the submarine made
seven patrol runs in the Pacific and sent 35,000 tons of enemy vessels to the
bottom.
Its torpedoes sank 10 ships and
damaged five others.
A martini glass painted on its
conning tower represents the celebration after the Cod rescued the crew of a
Dutch submarine that had run aground during the war.
The Cod was decommissioned in 1954
and opened as a floating memorial/museum in 1976.
More of the report here.
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