The US Submarine Veterans' Charitable Foundation established the Memorials ​Fund to act as a tax deductible means to aid in the construction, maintenance and ​repair of submarine related memorials, Many of these existing memorial sites ​were originally constructed, repaired and maintained by SubVets of WWII, but ​most are being turned over to the USSVI Base volunteers that devote their ​precious spare time to insure the presentability of our heritage. In addition, USSVI ​is building additional memorials and some bases carry our maintenance work on ​USN Museum Submarines.