The USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class fast battleship commissioned in 1942, played a significant role in World War II. -Initially tasked with escorting Allied convoys to the Soviet Union, it ...

Launched in 1942, she was powered by four General Electric steam turbines and equipped with a main battery of nine 16-inch guns, alongside a powerful anti-aircraft battery. USS Alabama was ...

USS Alabama USS Alabama ... The North Carolina was fitted with 29 large-caliber guns and several 40 mm and 20 mm antiaircraft guns. In the 1960s, the ship was placed on the chopping block after ...

The USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park ... McLean said the huge battleship, with its massive armor protection and 16-inch guns in three three-gun turrets, is obviously the centerpiece of ...

USS Alabama Living History Crew Commanding Officer. “Action of the guns -- and the aircraft as our forefathers -- parents and grandparents -- actually experienced in the war.” The re-enactment ...

Be on the deck of the USS ALABAMA for “a call to battle stations ... volunteers have worked on are the restoration of the 20mm guns and the 40mm guns, the repair and installation of the ...

From 1943 to 1945, the USS Alabama fought in the Pacific theater during World War II. Now, the 680-foot ship rests in Mobile, Alabama, as the star attraction of the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial ...

HOW FAST WERE YOU TO RELOAD YOUR GUNS, BEN? EVERY FIVE SECONDS ... OH, GOLLY, IT’S GOOD TO SEE THE USS ALABAMA NOW HAS A PERMANENT HOME IN HER NAMESAKE STATE. IT’S IN GOOD HANDS.