Maureen was born 22 December 1946
Yes she is a baby boomer
Another even this day was
The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen accompanied the Bismarck on the ill-fated Operation Rhine in May 1941. The cruiser was dispatched after the battle with the Hood and Prince of Wales and was not at hand to suffer the same fate as the Bismarck. In fact, the Prinz Eugen survived the war entirely. She remained in Brest until the famed “Channel Dash” - Operation Cerebus in February 1942.
After the end of WWII, the Prinz Eugen was allocated to the U.S. Navy and was classified IX-300. In January 1946 she steamed, with an American and German crew, to Boston. She was then sent on to Philadelphia where she had the two 8" (20.3 cm) cannons from her "A" turret removed. These guns were then shipped to the Navy's Weapon facility at Dahlgren, Virginia, for testing. They are now on display there.
Proceeding via the Panama Canal to the Pacific for atomic bomb tests, she survived an atomic explosion at Bikini 25 July 1946, and was towed to Kwajalein where she began to list significantly on 21 December. Despite an attempt to beach her, she capsized and sank 22 December 1946 on a coral reef at Enubuj, Kwajalein Atoll.
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