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191k | Arkansas (BB-33) & Wisconsin (BB-64) moored together. It looks like it is at Pearl Harbor, which if so, the only time the two ships were together at Pearl was in early October 1945 as they both were returning to the States at war's end. Both ships were part of the "Magic Carpet" operation staged to bring soldiers, sailors, and marines home from the far-flung battlefronts of the Pacific. Departing Okinawa on 23 September, Wisconsin reached Pearl Harbor on 4 October, remaining there for five days before she pushed on for the west coast on the last leg of her state-side bound voyage. Arkansas made four such trips. |
USN Photo # 99599 courtesy of David Buell. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. Photo added 12/15/07. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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80k | Anchored in Navy Base, Seattle, October 1945. | Photo courtesy of Seattle NARA, submitted by Tracy White. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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45k | The Arkansas (BB-33) is in the left hand corner of this photo with other test ships at the Bikini Bomb Test, 1946. I believe the New York (BB-34) is in the center, and the Pennsylvania (BB-38) is to her immeadiate right. |
Courtesy of submarinesailor.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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127k | Arkansas (BB-33) in lower left rim of the Atomic blast, meets her fate in "Operation Crossroads", June 1946. A 21 kiloton underwater nuclear weapons effects test, (Event Baker) conducted at Bikini Atoll (1946). | Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of dtra.mil.  45k |
"Battleship Arkansas (BB-33)" by
Arthur Beaumont. July 25 1946, During Atomic Bomb Test "Baker" Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the Arkansas and numerous other Pacific Fleet expendables were used for experimental bomb blast reactions. It is here that the Arkansas, which received four battle stars for her World War II service, met her end. |
A view of Arkansas following test ABLE. As can be seen in this watercolor, the battleship suffered considerable damage to the masts and deck from this atmospheric detonation. She did not survive the second test, falling victim to underwater damage after the BAKER detonation. See ARKANSAS-Bikini Able and Baker Test Underwater Images. . Arthur Beaumont # 8
Watercolor, 1946. |
Gift of the artist USNHC # 88-169-H  27k |
"Battleship Arkansas (BB-33) Being Tossed in Giant Pillar", by Grant Powers.
Unlike ABLE's atmospheric explosion, BAKER's detonation started with a spray dome that appeared at the underwater site. Owing to the denser nature of water, which quickly cooled the explosion, the initial fireball did not grow as large as ABLE's. The spray dome broke the surface near Arkansas and she sank quite suddenly. See
ARKANSAS-Bikini Able and Baker Test Underwater Images. |
Grant Powers # 4
Watercolor, 1946. |
USNHC # 88-181-D  47k |
One of the Arkansas' (BB-33) 21 x 5"/51 guns lying in 175 feet of water. |
Photo courtesy of seawolfproductions.com. |
 376k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991.
| USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. |
 371k | A quote made by Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz is inscribed on a granite wall at the National World War II Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Fleet Adm. Nimitz was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battleship Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japan on Sept. 2, 1945, thus ending World War II. Established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the memorial honors all military veterans of World War II, the citizens on the home front, the nation at large, and the high moral purpose and idealism that motivated the nation's call to arms. On May 29, 2004, the memorial will be formally dedicated with an estimated 200,000 people expected to attend, and includes 100,000 visiting veterans of all wars. | U.S. Navy photo N-0295M-011 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain, courtesy of news.navy.mil. | | |||||||||||
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