The 50th Anniversary USS Battleship Massachusetts Parade kicked off at noon from Kennedy Park on August 16, 2015 and headed up South Main Street, turning on Central Street to finish at Battleship Cove. Hundreds of marchers representing both military and civilian groups participated along with local politicians to make it a memorable event. Click here for the Herald News story. Click here for a fourteen-minute video.

(Top row) Viet Nam Era Marine Jim Michonski gets ready for the parade as State Representative Alan Silvia talks with Red Grinafsky of AmVets Post 60 and City Councilor Linda Pereira talks with veterans riding on the trolley.

(Row two) Bill Hart of the Colonial Navy of Massachusetts waits for the parade to begin along with Ed Tracy of the USS Massachuetts Living History Group.

(Row three, left) City Councilors Jasiel Correia II and Michael Miozza, School Committee Member Robert Maynard, and former Mayor John Mitchell wave to the crowd. (Row three, center and right) Christine Lopes and Amanda Welch watch the parade with 21-month-old Sophia as a group from the historic Lafayette-Durfee House goes by. 

(Row four) Sailors march as a model of the Iwo Jima statute is pulled along with a ship model pulled by Steven Rebello.

(Row five) Members of the Colonial Navy and an honor guard for the Fall River Young Marines march. 

(Row six) Ninety-eight-year-old Miss Senior Sweetheart Yvette Manacini waves from a vehicle before Jasmyne DeMedeiros of the Youth Connection hands out necklaces, and members of the Fall River Young Marines march. 

(Row seven) Members of the 21st Century Learning Center at the Greene School march with Fall River Herald News Editor Lynne Sullivan and her team of "newsboys" and a float from the Fall River Animal Rescue League. 

(Row eight) As an antique fire truck carrying a brass band goes by on South Main Street the Youth Connection turn the corner on Central Street and members of the Battleship Cove organization head down the hill.

(Row nine) The Hills Mills Clown Band heads to the waterfront along with the Young Marines and the Case High School marching band.

(Bottom row) Mayor Sam Sutter greets the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets as they finish the march to Battleship Cove.