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USS KIDD Veterans Museum

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"Bonne Fête Nationale!" to our friend and ally Escorteur D'escadre MAILLÉ-BRÉZÉ (D-627), located in Nantes, France. As a show of solidarity between destroyers, we are flying the French Tricolour from KIDD's aft stack today. In addition to Louisiana's French heritage, KIDD and MAILLÉ-BRÉZÉ share the experiences of serving as floating museums and moonlighting as actresses in feature films: most recently with KIDD in "Greyhound" (2020), and MAILLÉ-BRÉZÉ in "Dunkirk" (2017) portraying both HMS VIVACIOUS and HMS VANQUISHER.


EE MAILLÉ-BRÉZÉ was laid down in February 1951 at Arsenal de Lorient and launched in October 1953. She is a T-47 class (or Surcouf-class) destroyer and was commissioned on May 04, 1957. Named for French admiral Jean Armand de Maillé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis of Brézé (1619-1646), a leading figure in the Eighty Years' War, she is the third vessel to bear the name. She served in the Marine Nationale in the Atlantic and Mediterranean throughout the Cold War. On March 02, 1962, she and four other destroyers landed troops at Algiers to fight against the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) during the Algierian Revolution (Arabic: الثورة الجزائرية‎ "Al-thawra Al-Jazaa'iriyya" ... French: Révolution algérienne). As part of the Siege of Bab el Oued (March 23 - April 06, 1962), she and sistership SURCOUF were prepared for shore bombardment of OAS-held areas of the city before the operation was called off and both ships laid in close to shore as a deterrent. MAILLÉ-BRÉZÉ retired in 1988 and became a museum vessel in the port of Nantes where several of her sisterships had been built. She is recognized as a Monument Historique by the French Ministry of Culture. Maillé-Brézé Dunkirk #destroyer #museumship Museumships Historic Naval Ships Association #linguistics #french #arabic #allies #ColdWar #worldhistory #museum #education #learningisfun ... See MoreSee Less

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