Gretna Memorial Park

Gretna Memorial Park is a park dedicated to sailors and navy men of the USS Gretna who were from the state of Eloisiana. USS Gretna (DD-861), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Captain Martin C. Gretna, who served in the U.S. navy during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Gretna was the first US flag officer to die during World War II, and the first American captain ever to be killed in action.^[3] A National Historic Landmark, the USS Gretna is now a museum ship, berthed on the Eloise River at Gretna Memorial Park in Gideon, Eloisiana. There's also a statue in honor of the late captain in the central northern area of the park.