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NH 52584 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)

Photo #: NH 52584 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)
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Description: View on board the ship's sunken wreck, in Chesapeake Bay, after she had been used as a target for Army bombing tests in September 1921. This photograph looks forward from the stern, showing the after 13/35 gun turret and cage mainmast. Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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