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 | 83k | Arriving off New York City to take part in Navy Day celebrations, circa 19 October 1945. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-K-14562, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 30k | Starboard view, towards stern. Circa late 1945. | USN / Joe Radigan. | |
 | 65k | Anchored in New York Harbor, circa late 1945 or early 1946. | USNHC photo # NH 105564, from the collection of Warren Beltramini, donated by Beryl Beltamini, 2007. Photo added 03/20/08. | |
 | 249k | View from mast. February, 1946 at New York. New York (BB-34) had arrived there on 19 October. Here she prepared to serve as target ship in operation "Crossroads," the Bikini atomic tests, sailing 4 March 1946 for the West Coast. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-1.Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 256k | View from foremast, port side, looking Fwd. February, 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-2. | |
 | 320k | View from mast, port side, looking aft. February, 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-3. | |
 | 267k | View from foremast, Stb.side, looking aft. February, 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-4. | |
 | 320k | View from mainmast, looking Fwd., in Measure 21, Navy Blue and Deck Blue. Note the SC-1 floatplanes and the big SK air search set with SG surface search on a topmast. February, 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-5. | |
 | 217k | View from mainmast, looking forward. Feb., 1946. Note the 35-foot motor boat nested inside the 40-foot utility boat, the 26-foot motor whale boat to starboard. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-7. | |
 | 347k | N.Y.Navy Yard, 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 191k | View from mainmast, looking aft., showing the now removed A.A.guns and splintershields. Only a few liferafts remain reflecting the postwar reduced crew. Feb., 1946. | U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. Photo Serial # 382-46-8. | |
 | 45k | Photo taken on 4 March 1946, while moored off Philadelphia Navy Yard. | USN photo. | |
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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 immediate right. |
Courtesy of submarinesailor.com. | |
 | 81k | Bikini Bomb Test, 1946. New York (BB-34) is in the center & Pennsylvania (BB-38) is to the right. | USN Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 95k | New York (BB-34) is shown here being flushed with an anti-radiation bath after being used as a target at Bikini Atoll. | USNI / USN photo. | |
 | 80k | New York (BB-34) is shown here on 15 August 1946 at Pearl Harbor after she had been towed back from Bikini. Photo taken from the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) as Sumner was returning from Operation Crossroads. | Copy by Arne Schumacher. | |
 | 82k | New York (BB-34) is shown here on 15 August 1946 at Pearl Harbor after she had been towed back from Bikini. Photo taken from the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) as Sumner was returning from Operation Crossroads. | Copy by Arne Schumacher. | |
 | 112k | New York (BB-34) is towed from Pearl Harbor to be sunk as a target, 6 July 1948. Conserver (ARS-39), at left, is the main towing ship, assisted by two harbor tugs on New York's port side. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-498120, now in the collections of the National Archives, | |
 | 145k | Too radioactive for scrapping or a memorial in her home state, the ship was sunk as a target on 8, July 1948 off Hawaii. She is shown here bottom up in her final moments. | USN photo. | |
 | 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 2 Sept. 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 29 May 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. | |
 | 145k | Commemorative postal cover on the occassion of New York's (BB-34) 90th anniversary, 15 April 2004. | Photo courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
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