*Plankowners
Friday we had a bus tour of Offut AFB with a buffet lunch at the Officers Club. In the afternoon, the bus left for the Durham Western Heritage Museum. There we saw interesting exhibits and diorama of early times in the West. Saturday we boarded a bus for the new Strategic Air Command Museum some distance west of Omaha where we were duly impressed with all the famous military aircraft from the smallest to the biggest all inside a 300,000 square foot (7.5 acres) enclosed facility. In the afternoon we drove next door to the Mahoney State Park where we had another delicious buffet in the main lodge house. Sunday morning we had an Association business meeting and in the evening there was the banquet. The after dinner speaker was our own Stan Lappen who gave an interesting account of some of the events that happened to the Stevens that proved her to be a very lucky ship.
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Strategic Air & Space Museum,
Ashland, NE |
Strategic Air & Space Museum, Ashland,
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Gary & Mary McIntosh |
Bill & Mary Curtis |
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John & Virginia Page |
Stan & Eleanor Lappen |
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| Gary McIntosh & Dick Weston Autographing "War Diary USS Stevens DD-479" |
Ruth Thomason; Versie Durborow Ruth Blanchard & Son Jim |
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Darrell & Hazel Miller Virginia Rasmussen & Charlie Lindersmith |
Roy Hefley; Ken & Lannette Dahms Arthur & Joanne Jarvis |