Spared from a fate on a barbecue spit, this patriotic porker became a home-front star raising funds for building a battleship.

The farmland near West Frankfort, Illinois, is a strange starting point for a figure in the history of the U.S. Navy, more than a thousand miles distant from the nearest ocean. Even stranger is who, or rather what, that figure was and how much he contributed to a battleship that was never built.

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