USS Массачусетс BB-59 | |
Країні | Сша |
Тип | Лінкор |
Фотографії | Володимир Якубов |
Знайти | Лінкор-Ков, Фол-Рівер, Массачусетс |
Опис | Альбом 676 фотографії обходу «USS Massachusetts BB-59» |
Фотогалерея USS Массачусетс 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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Фотограф | Білл Мелоуні |
Локалізацією | Незнай |
Фото | 113 |
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The USS Massachusetts BB-59 was a fast battleship of the South Dakota class that served in the US Navy during World War II. It was launched in 1941 and commissioned in 1942. It fought in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, engaging the French battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca and participating in the campaigns of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Honshu. It was decommissioned in 1947 and became a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts, where it remains today.
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