USS Alabama
The permanent berth of the huge vessel of World War 2 battle fame is at the head of Mobile Bay on Battleship Parkway adjacent to Highways 90-31 and 98. The site is now the Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. Broadside view of the 680-foot battleship USS Alabama, which now sits at its final anchorage a...
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Samford University Archives
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| Summary: | The permanent berth of the huge vessel of World War 2 battle fame is at the head of Mobile Bay on Battleship Parkway adjacent to Highways 90-31 and 98. The site is now the Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. Broadside view of the 680-foot battleship USS Alabama, which now sits at its final anchorage at Mobile. During World War 2 the vessel earned nine battlestars in actions against the Japanese in the Pacific. |
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