[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 60 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 60

  Expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative postage stamp 
  should be issued in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin and all those who 
                           served aboard her.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 15, 1999

    Mr. Feingold (for himself and Mr. Kohl) submitted the following 
     concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of Congress that a commemorative postage stamp 
  should be issued in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin and all those who 
                           served aboard her.

Whereas the Iowa Class Battleship, the U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64), is an honored 
        warship in United States naval history, with 6 battle stars and 5 
        citations and medals during her 55 years of service;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin was launched on December 7, 1943, by the 
        Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, wife 
        of then-Governor Goodland of Wisconsin; and commissioned at 
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 16, 1944, with Captain Earl E. 
        Stone in command;
Whereas her first action for Admiral William ``Bull'' Halsey's Third Fleet was a 
        strike by her task force against the Japanese facilities in Manila, 
        thereby supporting the amphibious assault on the Island of Mindoro, 
        which was a vital maneuver in the defeat of the Japanese forces in the 
        Philippines;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin joined the Fifth Fleet to provide strategic cover 
        for the assault on Iwo Jima by striking the Tokyo area;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin supplied crucial firepower for the invasion of 
        Okinawa;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin served as a flagship for the Seventh Fleet during 
        the Korean conflict;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin provided consistent naval gunfire support during 
        the Korean conflict to the First Marine Division, the First Republic of 
        Korea Corps, and United Nations forces;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin received 5 battle stars for World War II and one 
        for the Korean conflict;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin returned to combat on January 17, 1991;
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin served as Tomahawk strike warfare commander for the 
        Persian Gulf, and directed the sequence of Tomahawk launches that 
        initiated Operation Desert Storm; and
Whereas the U.S.S. Wisconsin, decommissioned on September 30, 1991, is berthed 
        at Portsmouth, Virginia; and may soon be berthed at Nauticus, the 
        National Maritime Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, where she would serve as 
        a floating monument and an educational museum: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) a commemorative postage stamp should be issued by the 
        United States Postal Service in honor of the U.S.S. Wisconsin 
        and all those who served aboard her; and
            (2) the Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend 
        to the Postmaster General that such a postage stamp be issued.
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