The USS Alabama was the final of four powerful South Dakota-class battleships built for the US Navy in the 1930s. Though designed earlier, treaty restrictions delayed her construction until World War II. Alabama saw action protecting Allied convoys and in the Pacific, notably providing early warning against Japanese air attacks.
Sunday marks the 78th anniversary of the greatest loss of life at sea from a single ship in the history of the U.S. Navy the 1945 torpedo sinking of the
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