 " Big Mamie " , as she was affectionately known , was saved from the scrap pile when veterans and citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , with the assistance of Massachusetts schoolchildren who raised $ 50 @,@ 000 for her preservation , and was transferred to the non @-@ profit Massachusetts Memorial Committee on 8 June 1965 . She was enshrined at Battleship Cove in Fall River , Massachusetts , on 14 August 1965 , as the Bay State 's memorial to those who gave their lives in World War II . 
