Day 533
Battle Ship Park is located on Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama, and hosts a tribute to those who served in WWII. It houses an aircraft museum, the Battleship USS Alabama, and the submarine USS Drum. We toured all.
The USS battleship Alabama was launched February 16, 1942, therefore it was not at Pearl Harbor. The battleship was in 9 battles, 6 bombardments, and shot down 22 enemy airplanes. This was the sixth navy ship named for the State.
In all those encounters, it was never damaged from the enemy. However on February 21, 1944, during the Asiatic-Pacific Raids, one 5-inch gun mount accidentally fired into another mount killing 6 and wounding 11 men.
Some short people probably could not serve on this ship, as they couldn’t see over the deck. 
Barbara thought she could have been a gunner.
We spent a whole day there back in April. What a great value for the admission price. Barb might not have been able to see over the deck, but she would be able to climb inside the 16 inch gun torrents on deck. Having toured a nuclear sub, I can’t imagine those sailors living on the Drumm in WW2. It is so small. Did they still have the SR-71 Blackbird that was on loan?
We spend the whole day there also. Barbara is a slow reader. The blackbird was still there, but they would not let me fly it.
Still the highest flying, fastest plane on the planet.