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Kentucky (BB-66)
NH 96327 -- Bottom structure is prepared for launching, at the Norfolk Navy yard, Virginia, 10 June 1942. It was launched to clear the shipway for landing ship tank (LST) construction. Work was not resumed on Kentucky's hull for nearly thirty more months.
Copied from History of the Norfolk Navy Yard in World War II, page 157, in collections of Navy Department Library, 1987.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Naval Historical Center -- Online Library of Selected Images of USS Kentucky

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