[colorado tanker]

It's pretty cool that the "bookends" of WWII are so close together at Pearl.

The Navy had planned to build five more battleships, the Montana Class, but canceled the order when it became apparent the aircraft carrier would be the capital ship of the war. One of them was to be a new Maine, which would have been nice symbolism, too.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/usnshtp/bb/bb67.htm

[#1CTYankee]

My Son and I were on a tour of the USS Massachusetts as part of his cub scout pack, lucky for me we got to sleep over night /s. The beds were four high and made of stretched canvas tied with rope.Imagine yourself with 9 parents and 21 children trying to sleep in these quarters, needless to say lights out at 10:00 PM turned into 11:00+ as the kids were too excited to sleep. I had the privilege of being on the bunk three high with a tooter below. Needless to say I slept about 3 hours and was crippled the next day. (I broke my back in 2000)

My son loved the adventure so I guess it was worth it.

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Here he is in front of the 16 inch turrets.