<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> 28 March 2012 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated VLR </Th> <Td> December 15, 2011 </Td> </Tr> <P> USS Wisconsin (BB - 64) is an Iowa - class battleship, the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin . She was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on 7 December 1943 (the second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor raid), sponsored by the wife of Governor Walter Goodland of Wisconsin . </P> <P> During her career, Wisconsin served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where she shelled Japanese fortifications and screened United States aircraft carriers as they conducted air raids against enemy positions . During the Korean War, Wisconsin shelled North Korean targets in support of United Nations and South Korean ground operations, after which she was decommissioned . She was reactivated on 1 August 1986; after a modernization program, she participated in Operation Desert Storm in January and February 1991 . </P>

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