Classic Warships Pictorial #32 USS South Dakota Indiana Massachusetts Alabama

This book covers the United States Navy Second World War era battleships of the South Dakota class. These battleships were the result of the evolution of all the previous designs in the US Navy and were the second group of the Fast Battleships in the Atlantic and Pacific Wars, against both Nazi germany and the Japanese Empire. When commissioned, these warships, USS South Dakota BB-57, Indiana BB-58, Massachusetts BB-59 and Alabama BB-60 were some of the most powerful in the world. Covered in this book are all changes, refits and overhauls these ships went through, showing numerous details and differences from 1941 to the end of the war. This book is comprised of 72 pages with a total of 105 Black and White and 14 Color photos throughout. extensive and informative captions help explain each and every one of the multitude of photographs, many previously unpublished, of this class of famous US Navy WWII battleships, as well as a page of general statistics.