Battleships: Pennsylvania Class

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Lead Ship,Battleship USS Pennsylvania pictured entering Port Melbourne in 1925.......Photo courtesy of the Allan C Green Collection.
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An oil soaked USN diver emerges from the sunken Pennsylvania Class Battleship USS Arizona,Pearl Harbor, December 1941.
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Salvage work on USS Arizona in February 1942.
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Showing 5 Inch/51 calibre secondary armament on Lead Ship,Super Dreadnought Battleship USS Pennsylvania in 1918.
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Lead Ship,Super Dreadnought Battleship USS Pennsylvania pictured at Philadelphia Navy Yard in May 1931.She was in drydock with a pair of destroyers when the Japanese launched their surprise attack on the port. She suffered relatively minor damage in the attack, being protected from torpedoes by the drydock. While repairs were effected, the ship received a modernized anti-aircraft battery to prepare her for operations in the Pacific War.

Pennsylvania joined the fleet in a series of amphibious operations, primarily tasked with providing gunfire support. The first of these, the Aleutian Islands Campaign, took place in mid-1943, and was followed by an attack on Makin later that year. During 1944, she supported the landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands and the Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, including the Battles of Saipan, Guam, Peleliu, and Battle of Angaur. During the Philippines campaign, in addition to her typical shore bombardment duties, she took part in the Battle of Surigao Strait, though due to her inadequate radar, she was unable to locate a target and did not fire. During the Battle of Okinawa, she was torpedoed by a Japanese torpedo bomber and badly damaged, forcing her to withdraw for repairs days before the end of the war.

Allocated to the target fleet for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946, Pennsylvania was repaired only enough to allow her to make the voyage to the test site, Bikini Atoll. She survived both blasts, but was badly contaminated with radioactive fallout from the second test, and so was towed to Kwajalein, where she was studied for the next year and a half. The ship was ultimately scuttled in deep water off the atoll in February 1948.
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Air bedding day aboard Lead Ship,Battleship USS Pennsylvania...1921.
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The ill fated Pennsylvania Class Battleship USS Arizona pictured nearly complete during her major remodernisation refit at Norfolk Navy Yard on March 2nd 1931.
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Pennsylvania Class Battleship USS Arizona pictured in 1922.
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Here is the PENNSYLVANIA off Okinawa after being torpedoed in her stern, 1945. She was almost lost.... :o DFO
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Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS Pennsylvania pictured on her way to Bikini Atoll in 1946.
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