USS Massachusetts BB-59 – Photos & Video

Foto-galerija a 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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Čaj USS Massachusetts BB-59 je bio brzi bojni brod klase Južna Dakota koji je služio u američkoj mornarici tokom Drugog svetskog rata. Pokrenut je 1941, a naručen 1942. Borila se i u atlantskom i pacifičkom pozorištu, angažujući francuski bojni brod Žan Bart u Kazablanci i učestvujući u kampanjama Gilbertovih i Maršalskih ostrva, Filipina, Okinave i Honšua. Zatvoren je 1947.