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| Click On Image For Full Size Image | Size | Image Description | Contributed By And/Or Copyright |
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 | 182k | Bow on view of the Nevada (BB-36) in Dry Dock # 1, on 2 December 1945. | USN photo courtesy of Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR RET. | |
 | 95k | Stern view of the Nevada (BB-36) taken 8 July 1946, as seen in the Los Angeles Examiner. | Photo from the book Two Ocean Battleship, written by Harvey M. Beigel, courtesy of Mike Green. Photo added 02/08/07. | |
 | 121k | Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, Bikini Atoll Able Day "Plus 1". The orange warship is Nevada (BB-36). | USN photo courtesy of Brian Kroenung. | |
 | 52k | "Evacuation of the Fleet" by Arthur Beaumont. Selected as ground zero for test ABLE, Nevada (BB-36) was painted bright orange to assist the B-29 bomber crew find their aim point. Although the old battleship survived both bombs, extensive contamination from test BAKER led to her destruction by gunfire and aerial torpedoes in an exercise off Hawaii on 31 July 1948. The view is from the bridge of Arkansas (BB-33), during final test preparations and the evacuation of people and the support fleet from Bikini lagoon. | #1 Watercolor, 1946. Gift of the artist. NHC # 88-169-A, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 55k | Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, Bikini Atoll Able Day "Plus 1" by Grant Powers. Panoramic view of the fleet after test ABLE sketched from the bridge of Arkansas (BB-33). The ship in the middle is the scorched Nevada (BB-36), with Nagato behind and Sakawa sinking in the foreground. | #2 Watercolor, 1946. Gift of the artist. NHC # 88-169-B, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 55k | "Japanese Cruiser Sakawa Sinking" by Arthur Beaumont, #3 Watercolor, 1946. The former Japanese cruiser Sakawa sank in frothy green waters the day after test ABLE. Damaged battleships Nevada (BB-36) and Nagato are in the background. | # 3 Watercolor, 1946. Gift of the artist. NHC # 88-169-C, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 44k | Operation Crossroads, Joint Task Force One, Bikini Atoll Able Day "Plus 2 Seconds" by Grant Powers. The fireball surrounded by bomb debris and water vapor begins to rise into the sky. At the same time, the blast wave moves out from the bottom at 180 mph. The orange warship on the left is Nevada (BB-36). | #9 Watercolor, 1946. Gift of the artist. NHC # 88-181-I, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 75k | 31 July 1948 photo of the Nevada (BB-36) succumbing to naval gunfire and aerial torpedoes off Hawaii. The Nevada was the target ship for the first Bikini Atomic tests and survived that and the under water explosion as well. She underwent radiation studies after that and was used as a target when those studies were complete. | USN photo. | |
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