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Vintage U.S.S. Massachusetts BB 59 Photo Postcard
South Dakota Class Battleship
Massachusetts, or Big Mamie as she was called, was launched 23 September 1941 and commissioned 12 May 1942
During World War II
Massachusetts was initially assigned to duty in the Atlantic Fleet, and
exchanged shots with the Vichy French battleship Jean Bart during
Operation Torch
Transferred to the Pacific
fleet in 1943, Massachusetts participated in the Solomon Islands
campaign and the Philippines Campaign, and in the latter campaign took
part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In 1945 she was one of several ships
assigned to shell targets on Honshū, the largest of the Japanese Home
Islands
Following the end of World War
II Massachusetts was involved in routine operations off the US coast and
eventually reassigned to the Atlantic fleet
Decommissioned in 1947, she was
laid up in the reserve fleet at Norfolk Virginia until stricken from the
Naval Vessel Register in 1962
In an effort to spare the
battleship from scrapping, citizens of her home state pooled resources
to raise money for her transfer to the Massachusetts Memorial Committee,
and in 1965 the Navy formally donated the battleship to the committee.
Massachusetts was towed to Battleship Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts,
and formally opened as a museum ship on 14 August 1965
Massachusetts was added to the
National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National
Historic Landmark 14 January 1986
She is one of eight surviving battleships built by the United States
Massachusetts received 11
battle stars for World War II service as a result of her participation
in operations in North Africa, the Gilbert, Carolinas, and Marshall
Islands campaigns, as well as operations during the battles for Leyte,
Luzon, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
No U.S. Navy sailors or Marines were killed in action aboard the battleship during the war
Unused vintage color photo postcard
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