Willard Park
Located between the U.S. Navy Museum and the destroyer USS Barry, Willard Park is named for Admiral Arthur L. Willard, Commandant of the Navy Yard from 1927–1930. Alongside the many iron guns on display are a screw from the battleship USS South Dakota, a 5-inch gun salvaged from the battleship USS Maine, a bathysphere from the Alvin undersea exploration vehicle, the Swift Boat PCF-1, and a 14-inch naval railway gun from the First World War.
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