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9 January 1965214 views
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Launch on 19 June 1915. Esther Ross, the daughter of an Arizona pioneer family, was given the honors of ship sponsor and christening.222 views
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186 viewsA crew member lowers the colors on the Missouri (BB-63) for the last time at the vessel's decommissioning ceremony at NAVSTA (Naval Station) Long Beach, 31 March 1992.
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164 viewsUss Wisconsin Bb 64 Battleship Bb64 Fire Guns Navy
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USS MASSACHUSETTS opened as a museum ship to the public at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. 14 August 1965155 views
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158 views80-G-1021538 Pearl Harbor Attack. The burned-out, sunken wreck of USS Arizona (BB-39) ..
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151 viewsCommissioning pamphlet from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 16 April 1944
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204 viewsMissouri (BB-63) (center). Off Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 April 1946. She had brought the body of the Late Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Mehmet Munir Ertegun, home for burial, on a mission that was also made to influence Soviet Middle East policy. Power (DD-839) is at left, and the Turkish Battlecruiser Yavuz (formerly the German (Goeben) is at right. Dolmabahce Mosque is in the foreground.
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An aerial view of the USS Utah Memorial at Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii (USA). 8 March 2016158 viewsApr 22, 2019
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233 viewsBattleship Division Two in line abreast formation, 7 June 1954, in the Virginia Capes operating area, on the only occasion that all four Iowa class battleships were photographed operating together. Ship closest to the camera is USS Iowa (BB-61). The others are (from near to far): USS Wisconsin (BB-64); USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS New Jersey (BB-62). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Feb 26, 2019
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An aerial oblique view of the Alabama (BB-60) after launching at Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 16 February 1942.179 viewsFeb 15, 2019
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1 February 1940 photograph of the laying of the keel ceremony for the Alabama (BB-60) at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. In this photograph dignitaries are driving rivets into the keel of the battleship. 176 viewsFeb 01, 2019
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176 viewsDESERT STORM A BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack missile (TLAM) is fired toward an Iraqi target from the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) at the start of Operation Desert Storm. Jan 16, 2019
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The Battleship USS Missouri passes Honolulu en route to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where it would to become a museum near the Arizona memorial.213 viewsJan 11, 2019
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9 January 1965214 viewsJan 09, 2019
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Four mothballed battleships at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1948. Left to right: Alabama (BB-60), West Virginia (BB-48), Indiana (BB-58) & Colorado (BB-45).201 viewsJan 09, 2019
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209 viewsThe Missouri (BB-63) as seen on 3 October 1941. She had been laid down on 6 January and her bottom plating is nearly finished. Most of the workers in the center of the ship are standing on the middle layer of the triple bottom. The keelson projects aft toward the water and on each side of the keelson can be seen the supports for the two inboard propeller shafts.Jan 05, 2019
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Floodlights illuminate the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) as she rests on blocks in Drydock Number Three at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard during overhaul, November 1967211 viewsJan 04, 2019
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