Veterans at the ceremony held to celebrate the arrival of the USS Alabama in Mobile Bay.
The U.S. Navy Band from the Pensacola Naval Air Station is playing on a stage behind them. In 1962, after learning that the World War II battleship was to be scrapped, the state legislature established a commission to study the possibility of acquiring the vessel. Through the efforts of that commiss...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/141927 |