On Saturday we visited the U.S.S Alabama Museum and Park in Mobile. The park has memorials for the Vietnam and Korean wars as well as an Avatian Museum. Both the Alabama and the Drum. Below is an excert from their visitors flyer.

"The recipient of nine WWII Battle Stars, the Battleship USS ALABAMA and her crew of 2,500 saw action in the Atlantic for a year before joining the Pacific Fleet in mid-1943. There she fought at such key locations as Leyte, the Gilbert Islands and Okinawa. After the signing of the war ending surrender documents in September 1945, USS ALABAMA, or the "Mighty A", as she was known, led the American Fleet into Tokyo Bay. Alongside the battleship is America's oldest Gato Class US Submarine on public display. The DRUM is named for a large sea bass found off the North Atlantic Coast. With its crew of 72 men, the DRUM conducted 13 war patrols, was awarded 12 campaign stars, and sank 15 Japanese ships totaling over 80,000 tons."