After completing my recruiting duties at the Great Lakes Naval Station, North Chicago, IL, I was sent to the Puget Sound Naval Yard in Bremerton, WA, where I was assigned to the battleship USS Nevada, which later returned to Hawaii to rejoin units of the Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl ...
The battleship remained off the Norman coast until June 18 with its only departure a short run to Plymouth to rearm. USS Texas (BB-35) at sea, December 1942. National Archives and Records Administration Later that month, on June 25, Texas, USS Arkansas (BB-33), and USS Nevada (BB...
Screening duties completed, Laffey returned to England, arriving at Portsmouth on 22 June, where she tied up alongside the battleship Nevada. On 25 June, she got underway with the battleship to join Bombardment Group 2 shelling the formidable defenses at Cherbourg-Octeville. Upon reaching the bo...
USS Wisconsin (BB-9), an Illinois-class battleship, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 30th state. Engines of Wisconsin. The keel of Battleship No. 9 was laid down on 9 February 1897 at San Francisco, California, by the Union Iron Works. She was ...
Nevada (BB-36) Nevadawas the only Battleship to get underway during the attack. As she attempted to escape the harbor she was heavily damaged and to prevent her sinking in the main channel she was beached off Hospital Point. She would be raised and returned to service by the May 1943 as...
The characteristics of the Standard-type were first used in theNevada-andPennsylvania-classes. As a follow-on to the latter, theNew Mexico-class at first was envisioned as the US Navy's first class to mount 16" guns. A new weapon, the 16"/45 caliber gun had been successfully tested in...
She was assigned to the battleship USS Nevada and Bombardment Group 2 in shelling German strong points in France. She arrived in Belfast on July 1st, 1944 and sailed for home, arriving in Boston on July 9th. She remained in repair dock for a month and received new electronic equipment. ...
When war broke out in 1941 Lieutenant Fluckey was an engineering and diving officer on the V-class submarine USSBonita, after having served on the battleshipNevada, the destroyerMcCormick, and another sub, theS-42. TheBonitawas a 2,000-ton relic that could only dive at two degrees and to...
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Although my father passed away in January of 1982, he is still in our hearts and we are very proud of his service on the Battleship New Jersey. Cordially, Robert W. Ritner Henderson, Nevada From a photo caption in The Jerseyman's January 15, 1944 issue: "In the photograph above, Pfc...