After concerns that the SS United States wasn’t seaworthy enough to make the trip from Philadelphia to Florida, Okaloosa ...

Although no date has been set yet to move the vessel, if it’s eventually sunk close enough to the USS ... the ship to Mobile, Alabama, and preparing it to be sunk, as well as creating a museum ...

Photo courtesy of Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum ... to the USS Alabama, where he worked as an electronics officer. Carter was responsible for maintaining the ship's sonar and ...

In 1962 the ship was retired and turned into a museum. Today, visitors can board the USS Alabama in Mobile Bay, and it serves as a U.S. Navy veterans memorial and educational tool. The USS Alabama ...

Lt Jimmy Carter peers at instruments on submarine USS K-1 in a 1952 photograph Credit ... down the eastern coast of the US in an old battleship during the summer of 1944, for which he received ...

Photo courtesy of Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Carter is one ... In 1948, he was assigned to the USS Alabama, where he worked as an electronics officer. Carter was responsible for ...

From 1943 to 1945, the USS Alabama fought in the Pacific theater during World War II. Now, the 680-foot ship rests in Mobile, Alabama, as the star attraction of the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial ...