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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