USS The Sullivans	Road # DD-537
50' Standard Box Car, Plug Door w/o Roofwalk
Part #MTL-038 00 407 N Scale Supply Price: New: July 2007

USS The Sullivans was launched in San Francisco, California, on 4 April 1943. By
direction of President Franklin Roosevelt it was named for the fi ve Sullivan brothers who
lost their lives aboard the USS Juneau when it was sunk by a Japanese sub off Guadalcanal on 13 November
1942. The Sullivans served in WWII, Korea, the Cuban blockade and the rescue efforts of the sub Thresher. It
was decommissioned 7 January 1965 and donated in 1977 to the City of Buffalo, NY, where it now resides as
a memorial.