by ww3 » January 14, 2020, 4:24 pm
About five years after WWII, the Navy organized the well known "Corn Belt Fleet". This fleet of ships was to become the Great Lakes Reserve Destroyer Division, a familiar site to many in the Great Lakes area They were stationed at various ports on the lake's, for example: the U.S.S. ANHERST (PCER 853) which I served on for a short time was stationed in Detroit. Around 1970 the Naval Dept. decided to end the Corn Belt Fleet and the vessels left the lakes. For more info you may go on line and enter Warship International No. 4 of Dec. 31, 1970 or The End of THE CORN BELT FLEET copyrighted any published in 1972. For further info e-mail
fishtug@ezdsl.net. Both of the books mentioned are now 'out of print' by may still be brought up by going to the (20 books mentioned.
About five years after WWII, the Navy organized the well known "Corn Belt Fleet". This fleet of ships was to become the Great Lakes Reserve Destroyer Division, a familiar site to many in the Great Lakes area They were stationed at various ports on the lake's, for example: the U.S.S. ANHERST (PCER 853) which I served on for a short time was stationed in Detroit. Around 1970 the Naval Dept. decided to end the Corn Belt Fleet and the vessels left the lakes. For more info you may go on line and enter Warship International No. 4 of Dec. 31, 1970 or The End of THE CORN BELT FLEET copyrighted any published in 1972. For further info e-mail fishtug@ezdsl.net. Both of the books mentioned are now 'out of print' by may still be brought up by going to the (20 books mentioned.