Feb 2, 2024
View of USS NORTH CAROLINA (BB-55), USS WASHINGTON (BB-56), USS GUAM (CB-2) and USS FRESNO (CL-121) or USS SPOKANE (CL-120) from the foremast of USS ALASKA (CB-1). They docked in Bayonne Navy Yard, New Jersey as part of the New York Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
"Mothballed battleships laid up at Naval supply base, covered with protective metal bubbles."
Photographed by Herbert Gehr, LIFE Magazine on February 2, 1950.
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