Battleship Memorial Park & the USS Alabama by Ewingjr98
Battleship Memorial Park is home to the USS Alabama which had a distinguished record at numerous Pacific theater battles during World War II including Gilbert Islands, Caroline Islands, Marianas Islands, Palau Islands, Saipan, Philippine Sea, Guam, Leyte Gulf, Okinawa and others. Its crew consisted of 127 Officers and 2,205 Enlisted Men and it had impressive firepower with 9 sixteen-inch guns, 20 five-inch guns, 48 forty-millimeter guns, and 52 twenty-millimeter guns. Also in the park are the USS Drum submarine and various military aircraft including a B-25, P-51, F-86, F-4, F-105, B-52, F-16, and a prototype version of the F-18. There are also other pieces of military equipment on display such as artillery, tanks, and gunboats from around the world including an Iraqi tank.
