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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 52583

Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)


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 to starboard of the forward 13"/35 gun turret, showing the deck blown upward as a result of a bomb explosion inside the bow.

Donation of Lewis L. Smith, 1960.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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27 December 2002