USS Alabama was commissioned August 16, 1942. She earned 9 Battle Stars, and shot down 22 enemy airplanes during World War II. It is moored on the Bay of Mobile with a beautiful veiw of downtown and the bay.
From the museums records:
" Operations July 10- Aug 15, 1945. Assigned to duty with the Royal Navy as they shelled factories and steel mills only a few miles from Tokyo. In early August, one final Kamikaze plane struck the destroyer Borie and the Alabama sent a medical party to care for the wounded. On Aug 6, 1945 the 1st atomic bomb decimated the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Surrender followed 8 days later. The war was over."
I counted 11 flights of steps we climbed. The museum has done such a nice job with furnishing the different rooms of the ship as it was when it was operating. It's like a little city with operating rooms, laundry, ship store, dentist, brigs, etc. and of course several mess halls depending on your rank.
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