![]() This book documents the warship through an impressive collection of images and data tables revealing the ship the ship and how it functioned as a fighting machine as well as a home to her almost 1,800-man crew. Citizens of her namesake state and former crewmembers rallied to save the ship, raising the funds to have her preserved as a museum in Fall River. In 1962 the ship was stricken from the Navy list, seemingly destined for the scrap yard. ![]() Massachusetts was laid up in the reserve from 1947. Despite earning an impressive 11 battle stars, none of her crew were killed in action. Moving to the Pacific in early 1943, her big guns shelled Japanese shore installations, while her burgeoning antiaircraft battery was employed to protect aircraft carriers. Massachusetts silenced the French warship with seven 16-inch hits. battleship actions in WWII, when she fired upon the Vichy battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca. Massachusetts participated in one of the few battleship vs. ![]() Armed with nine 16-inch guns, 20 five-inch guns, and numerous smaller weapons, she was one of the most formidable battleships in the world at the time. Launched in September 1941, at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, she was rushed to completion following Pearl Harbor and was commissioned on. Massachusetts was the third South Dakota-class battleship authorized.
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