Leigh and Jack Beasley III on the deck of a ship in Mobile Bay, watching the arrival of the USS Alabama from Washington state.
Their father, Jack Beasley Jr., was a member of the USS Alabama Commission, which was established to study the possibility of acquiring the World War II battleship. Through the efforts of that commission and the contributions of private citizens (who raised more than $750,000 for the effort), the sh...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/141916 |
| Summary: | Their father, Jack Beasley Jr., was a member of the USS Alabama Commission, which was established to study the possibility of acquiring the World War II battleship. Through the efforts of that commission and the contributions of private citizens (who raised more than $750,000 for the effort), the ship was taken to Mobile. There it was refurbished and converted into a memorial to Alabama's war veterans, which opened in January 1965. |
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