Found! USS Oakland Cap
from the Sawyer Free Library Facebook page;
This cap was left at the library – does anyone know who it might belong to? I’m sure it is important to it’s owner!
“I know how valuable these are to Our great Veterans. Please help it find its Owner”
If so contact the Sawyer Free Library.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sawyer-Free-Library/202051117106
Telephone: 978-281-9763
Good Morning Gloucester 
From the Sawyer Free Library;
“Thanks Paul! It worked! We found the owner!”
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Nice! Good Karma all around…
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USS Oakland (CL-95)
Career (United States)
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Laid down: 15 July 1941
Launched: 23 October 1942
Commissioned: 17 July 1943
Decommissioned: 1 July 1949
Struck: 1 March 1959
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1 December 1959
General characteristics
Class and type: Atlanta-class cruiser
Displacement: 6,000 tons
Length: 541 ft 6 in
Beam: 53 ft 2 in
Draft: 26 ft 6 in
Propulsion:
geared turbines
2 shafts
75,000 shp
Speed: 32.5 kn (37.4 mph,60.2 km/h)
Complement: 802 officers and enlisted
Armament: 12 × 5 in (127 mm) guns, 8 × Bofors 40 mm guns, 16 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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