![]() ![]() ![]() This meant SOUTH DAKOTA (BB-57), INDIANA (BB-58), MASSACHUSETTS (BB-59), and ALABAMA (BB-60) would be destroyed. ![]() The Associated Press was reporting that the South Dakota class of battleships would be scrapped. On the early morning of over coffee at breakfast, Jimmie Morris, then an employee of the Tourist & Visitors Department of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, noticed a small story in the Mobile Register newspaper. Other vessels were scrapped, dismantled for their steel and other parts, since they were no longer of use to the peace-keeping efforts of the United States. But, for the highly decorated battleship and most of those with her, that call never came. In a cost-cutting move, the United States Government decommissioned ALABAMA on Januand left her at her berth in Bremerton, Washington, where she and other vessels would await their call back to defend their nation. senator from Pennsylvania, are staking their candidacies on their conservative credentials.After the end of World War II, Battleship USS ALABAMA and hundreds of warships used to win the war were deemed essentially useless in the newly-created peace of the mid to late 1940s. representative from Texas, at 8 percent.īoth Gingrich, a former congressman from Georgia, and Santorum, a former U.S. In Alabama, the race is tighter, with Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, at 31 percent, Gingrich at 30 percent, Santorum at 29 percent and Paul, a U.S. In Mississippi, Gingrich has a slight lead with 33 percent, while Romney has 31 percent, Santorum 27 percent and Paul 7 percent in the race to become the Republican challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama in November. ![]() “Beyond that it’s plausible that any of the candidates could finish between first and third in both Alabama and Mississippi.” “About all we know for sure about Tuesday’s primaries is that Ron Paul will finish last in them,” Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, said in releasing the results. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks with workers and supporters at Thompson Tractor in Birmingham, Alabama March 9, 2012. ![]()
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