Photo #: NH 96327
Kentucky (BB-66)
Bottom structure is prepared for launching, at the Norfolk Navy
Yard, Virginia, 10 June 1942.
It was launched to clear the shipway for landing ship tank (LST)
construction. Work was not resumed on Kentucky's hull
for nearly thirty more months.
Copied from History of the Norfolk Navy Yard in World War
II, page 157, in the collections of the Navy Department Library,
1987.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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