Home | What's New | FAQ | Special Events | Tour Info | Gift Shop | Contact Us The Louisiana Naval War Memorial & USS KIDD (DD-661) Baton Rouge, Louisiana History It's July 17, 1951 . . . Yokosuka Japan Naval Shipyard. It's been one month since we left the States; two weeks since the USS KIDD, my 2, 050-ton Fletcher-class destroyer, sailed from Pearl Harbor bound for Japan. Hard to believe ...