Battleships: New Mexico Class

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New Mexico Class Battleship USS Idaho pictured in 1934.
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This class of 3 came b4 the "Big 5", and was the last class designed with hull mounted secondary mounts. They were the most "modern" of the pre-war refits in 1941. Only the IDAHO received enclosed single 5" 38 mounts late in the war. DFO
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A as built shot...:) Plus MISS. postwar as a weapon test ship. Note full auto, twin 6" on bow view. These were used on 2 post war cls of WORCESTER class. DFO
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The 14" weapons this class carried made them among the most powerful battleships in the world; until they were leap frogged by RN's 15" 42 and then IJN 16.1" and USN 16" 45s. Very good island bunker busters in WW2.

I rather doubt any single or twin 4.5", 5", or 5.1" can or does pack the same wallop...... :o DFO
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Units of this class also were off Iceland b4 the USA was attacked and drawn into WW2. :( DFO
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One of the first USN BBs I saw pictures of was the former BB, MISSISSIPPI, in the long gone Ships & the Sea magazine...circa 1956. She was going to be scrapped and therefore, as a WW2 survivor, rated space in the magazine.

My budding interest in warships continued to increase! :) BIG GUNS trump aluminum corroded aluminum anyday... ;) DFO
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Lead Ship,Battleship USS New Mexico pictured c1935.
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New Mexico Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Idaho pictured fitting out at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, March 10th 1919.
She was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919. She was armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch guns in four three-gun turrets, and was protected by heavy armor plate, with her main belt armor being 13.5 inches thick.
Idaho spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in the Pacific Fleet, where she conducted routine training exercises. Like her sister ships, she was modernized in the early 1930s. In mid-1941, before the United States entered World War II, Idaho and her sisters were sent to join the Neutrality Patrols that protected American shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, Idaho and her sisters were sent to the Pacific, where she supported amphibious operations in the Pacific. She shelled Japanese forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Philippines campaigns and the invasions of Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.Idaho was among the ships present in Tokyo Bay when Japan formally surrendered on September 2nd 1945. With the war over, she was decommissioned in July 1946. She was sold to ship breakers in November 1947 and subsequently dismantled.
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New Mexico Class Battleship USS Idaho pictured at Puget Sound Navy Yard,March 8th 1926.
She was the third of three ships of her Class. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, she was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919. She was armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch guns in four three-gun turrets, and was protected by heavy armor plate, with her main belt armor being 13.5 inches thick.
Idaho spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in the Pacific Fleet, where she conducted routine training exercises. Like her sister ships, she was modernized in the early 1930s. In mid-1941, before the United States entered World War II, Idaho and her sisters were sent to join the Neutrality Patrols that protected American shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, Idaho and her sisters were sent to the Pacific, where she supported amphibious operations in the Pacific. She shelled Japanese forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Philippines campaigns and the invasions of Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
Idaho was among the ships present in Tokyo Bay when Japan formally surrendered on September 2nd 1945. With the war over, she was decommissioned in July 1946. She was sold to ship breakers in November 1947 and subsequently dismantled.
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Here is the IDAHO being modernized in the early 30s; plus 2 later photos of her........DFO
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