USS Alabama, Mobile

We have a short drive today to the Escapee Park in Summerdale, AL.  Staying there for 4 days as we are having a portable solar panel being shipped to the Walmart nearby.  Mobile is half way and Gary would like to tour the USS Alabama so off we go.

 Tunnel vision

 We arrive just before they open

Which is good because they don't have RV parking so we make our own

The Ship and propeller

 It is a huge ship and the self guided tour is broken up into 3 sections, yellow, red and green

The yellow tour takes you up top, starting at the main deck

We get to go up to the top deck and get quite a view

 

 Uh Oh.  Looks like we have a gunner on our tail

You walk through engine rooms

The Battle Bridge where during battle the Captain commanded the ship  behind 16" armored plates

Once again we need no stinking stairmaster - but a hard hat might come in handy

The Captain gets the plush quarters

and Officers get a nice dining room

A few charges for the missiles

and Missiles

Sick Bay

The Flag flown when at Battle

Next we go to visit the Submarine - USS Drum

We go below deck, but I wonder why the Flag before us is just the Blue Section with Stars?

This is a bit more claustrophobic than the Alabama

A cozy kitchen

And they have an Ice Cream Machine!

Gary takes aim

A quick run through the airplane hangar.  The Tuskegee Airmen

Bombers with a sense of humor

War displays.  Soldiers received socks from the Vietnamese and  used them t make a Christmas tree out of them

There are more planes on display outside, like this B-52.  I never realized just how big they are!

A tribute to the Coast Guard

We spent almost 4 hours touring about and didn't see it all, but time to move on.