The battleship USS Alabama is one of the very few “big ones†that saw service in World War II and survive to this day as museum ships. A recipient of nine Battle Stars for her wartime service; Alabama was a South Dakota class warship; widely considered to be the best US Navy treaty battleship design; featuring heavy armor; good underwater protection; tight superstructure arrangement and formidable armament. The ship was built at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth; Virginia. She was laid down on February 1; 1940 and launched on February 16; 1942 sponsored by Henrietta McCormick Hill; wife of the senior U.S. Senator from Alabama J. Lister Hill.
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