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USS Alabama
Squadron At Sea
(Paperback)
By David Doyle

The keel of the 35,000-ton battleship Alabama was laid in Norfolk

Naval Shipyard in 1940. Laborers swarmed to build the immense
vessel as war raged elsewhere in the globe. After the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, their work took on new urgency, and the
mighty battleship was placed in commission on 16 August 1942. Her

first duties included bolstering the British Home Fleet, to
protect convoys from such famed German surface raiders as
Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Admiral Scheer. By late 1943 Alabama was

operating with the US fleet in the Pacific, her powerful
antiaircraft battery, which was frequently augmented, putting up

a shield over US carriers and her 16-inch guns firing on
Japanese shore positions. This book documents all of these events

through more than 200 vintage photos, illustrating these
actions, as well as her construction and frequent refitting,
before concluding with coverage of her years in the Navy's
'mothball fleet' and the saga of her preservation as a memorial.
The extensive array of archival photos is augmented by detailed
line drawings and color profiles illustrating her varied
camouflage schemes. Illustrated with 285 photographs, detailed
line drawings and color profiles; 128 pages.
ISBN 978-0-89747-730-7 Paperback