Sub Drum restoration ceremony

Six years of restoration efforts on the WWII submarine USS Drum – a fixture at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Ala., - culminates Saturday Nov. 19 with a special ceremony marking 75 years since its commissioning. As a team, Tom Bowser and Leslie Waters have led the efforts to maintain and restore the submarine. Bowser is a submarine veteran. He has volunteered over the past 10 years to help in the restoration. Waters is employed at Battleship Park and has been working on Drum for 19 years. The ceremony is at 11a.m. Saturday at the Aircraft Pavilion at Battleship Park. The public is invited. Drum was donated to battleship park in 1969. (Source: WKRG 11/17/16)