USS Massachusetts BB-59 – Fotografije & Video

Fotogalerija USS Massachusetts BB-59, USS Massachusetts (BB-59), known as “Big Mamie” to her crewmembers during World War II, was a battleship of the second South Dakota class. She was the seventh ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the sixth state, and one of two ships of her class (along with her sister Alabama) to be donated for use as a museum ship. Massachusetts has the distinction of having fired the US Navy’s first and last 16-in (406 mm) shells of the war.

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V USS Massachusetts BB-59 je bila hitra bojna ladja razreda Južne Dakote, ki je služila v ameriški mornarici med drugo svetovno vojno. Splavljen je bil leta 1941 in naročen leta 1942. Boril se je na atlantskem in pacifiškem bojišču, sodeloval je s francosko bojno ladjo Jean Bart v Casablanci in sodeloval v kampanjah na Gilbertovih in Marshallovih otokih, Filipinih, Okinawi in Honšuju. Leta 1947 je bila razgrajena in postala muzejska ladja v zalivu Battleship Cove v Fall Riveru, Massachusetts, kjer ostaja še danes.