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U.S.S. DUBUQUE
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U.S.S. DUBUQUE. U.S. Navy warship. The second U.S.S. Dubuque was commissioned on September 1,1967, in Portsmouth, Virginia. In November 1987, the ship's crew of twenty-six officers and four hundred enlisted men pledged a donation of two thousand dollars toward the Tri-State Veteran's Memorial Association goal of $300,000 to construct a memorial for all veterans.