What connection is there between the USS KIDD and Baton Rouge?
A. There is no connection between the KIDD and Baton Rouge, or Louisiana for that matter. The KIDD was placed on a memorial status through the efforts of her former crew and shipmates of DESRON 48 (her WWII destroyer squadron). When the Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission went looking for a World War II vessel as a candidate for their planned memorial in Baton Rouge, the KIDD was the closest to her World War II configuration out of all of the candidate vessels.
