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NH 52583 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)

Photo #: NH 52583 Ex-USS Alabama (BB-8)
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Description: 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 History and Heritage Command Photograph.
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