About the USS Hornet Museum You may or may not be aware that our association is involved in the USS Hornet Museum (CV-12) and restoration project. Volunteers are sprucing up a compartment on CV-12 that will be dedicated to CV-18 and her crew.
This photo shows the transfer of the check for $6,500 from the Wasp Association to the USS Hornet Museum. From left to right are Oscar Robinson, Bill Metcalf, and Alan McKean. Note the Wasp patches on these fellas; it means they served on Wasp too. Oscar is a Wasp alumni and has been associated with the USS Hornet Museum "forever." LCDR Alan McKean USNR (ret.) is the Director of the USS Hornet Museum. Bill is a volunteer on Hornet and coordinator for the Wasp Memorial Compartment
Bill Metcalf wrote:
I live in Fremont, California and I'm serving as the project manager of what I call the "United Stingers" project - converting a berthing compartment aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) - now a museum at Pier 1 (or 3, depending upon who you talk with) at the former NAS Alameda - into a memorial for the Wasp and her men.
At this time the memorial compartment is being painted, rigged with a fresh-water fire sprinkler system (City of Alameda code requirement), and re-tiled. We have plans for ship models and photographs (and anything else we can come up with).
Bill later added:
Please consider donating WASP artifacts. The statute of limitations for anything you may have - ahem - "liberated" from the WASP has long past. Above all, do not send money!! Consider sending that to the USS COLE survivors or their families, or to Navy Relief, or even to the WASP Association, please.
We are also seeking a photograph of "Rosie The Riveter" for the USS WASP memorial compartment. Not a photo of Rosie herself, necessarily, but a photograph of one or more ladies building the 9th USS WASP. These ladies are an inextricable part of the history of the USS WASP, and should be honored along with the gentlemen who served on her.
If you have a piece of Wasp history squirreled away for safekeeping and would like to share it with generations to come, give a thought to donating it to the USS Hornet Museum. I'll bet you might think that an Essex Class museum. is the most appropriate place for its display. Please let the folks at the USS Hornet Museum know about any artifacts you'd be interested in contributing. Contact the museum through Bill Metcalf at:
metcalf@home.com
On to photos of the Wasp compartment "in progress" on CV-12.
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