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Monday, September 27, 2010

USS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP, Mobile, Alabama

(Click on photos to enlarge.)
Battleship Memorial Park was a great place to visit.  It
not only had the USS Alabama, it also had memorials
for the Korean War and Vietnam War

 USS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP





 WAR MEMORIALS





 There were a lot of war planes in the park
 And,  this cool looking helicoper thing


 It was storming one second. . .
 . . . and cleared up the next


CALAMITY JANE  was among 170 B-52Ds manufactured by Boeing, and was equipped exclusively for long-range bombing missions.  Calamity Jane  has been demilitarized, but remains in the high camouflage used during Vietnam operations.


 A bomb