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280k | Pacific Aerial Surveys photo of the New Mexico (BB-40), probably during the Spring of 1940 when she was undergoing modernization. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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52k | New Mexico(BB-40) at the Puget Sound Navy Yard undergoing modernization, 24 April 1940. Note the barrage ballon overhead. | USN photo, courtesy of Seattle NARA RG-181, submitted by Tracy White. | |
 | 496k | Arizona (BB-39) & a New Mexico class (BB-40/42) battleship during Fleet Ops in October 1940. | USN photo courtesy Pieter Bakels. Photo added 05/01/08. | |
 | 28k | Arizona (BB-39) & a New Mexico class (BB-40/42) battleship during Fleet Ops in October 1940. | USN photo courtesy Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 367k | Column Right! Arizona (BB-39), New Mexico (BB-40) & West Virginia (BB-48) and other ships of the Pacific Fleet taken during Fleet Ops in October 1940. | Scanned from: "The Fleet Today" by Kendall Banning. Funk & Wagnalls Company, N.Y. and London, 1942. Submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 534k | The Army Air Corp flies above the Arizona (BB-39), New Mexico (BB-40) & West Virginia (BB-48) and the rest of the Pacific Fleet during Fleet Ops in October 1940. | Scanned from: "The Fleet Today" by Kendall Banning. Funk & Wagnalls Company, N.Y. and London, 1942. Submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
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280k | Photo by George Winstead of the New Mexico (BB-40) probably when she sailed to join the Atlantic fleet at Norfolk 16 June 1941 for duty on neutrality patrol. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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373k | New Mexico (BB-40), view looking forward from the stern, at Norfolk, 31 December 1941. | USN Photograph # 2610 (42) courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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448k | Port bow closeup of the New Mexico(BB-40), at Norfolk, 31 December 1941. | USN Photograph # 2610 (42) courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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347k | View from bow looking aft of the New Mexico (BB-40), at Norfolk, 31 December 1941. | USN Photograph # 2610 (42) courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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429k | Port quarter view of the New Mexico (BB-40), at Norfolk, 31 December 1941. | USN Photograph # 2610 (42) courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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783k | Following two photos show the New Mexico (BB-40) at Norfolk, 31 December 1941.
She is equipped with the then "state of the art" quadruple 1.1"/75 machine
guns [later replaced by the Bofors 40mm gun(s)]. She has also just been
fitted with 20mm Oerkilons, but still was equipped with 0.5 caliber machine
guns which the 20mm ultimately replaced. She also carries two radar units;
a surface search set (Mark 3) on top of her forward main battery director
atop her tower bridge and an air search SC unit on her pole main mast. The tug YT-213 is pulling alongside Menemsha (AG-39). Across the pier from her is the new destroyer O'Brien (DD-415). She would be torpedoed by the Japanese Submarine I-15 15 September 1942 and sank 19 October 1942 while en route to Pearl Harbor for repairs. |
USN Photograph # 2611 (42) courtesy of Pieter Bakels. Photo i.d. courtesy of Gary Priolo. | |
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368k | The New Mexico (BB-40) at Norfolk, 31 December 1941.
She is equipped with the then "state of the art" quadruple 1.1"/75 machine
guns [later replaced by the Bofors 40mm gun(s)]. She has also just been
fitted with 20mm Oerkilons, but still was equipped with 0.5 caliber machine
guns which the 20mm ultimately replaced.
The camouflaged ship alongside the near side of the next pier is George F. Elliott (AP-13). Note: number "40" painted atop New Mexico's second 14"/50 triple gun turret; Mark 33 and other gun directors atop her superstructure; FC radar antenna on one of the directors and SC radar antenna mounted at the top of her mainmast. New Mexico is in the process of being painted up in splotches. This picture is just one of an extensive close-up series showing all three New Mexico class battleships being repainted at the same time. The sun is very low, coming strong off the port bow. This is causing the angled surfaces on the bridge (and all other shapes in the same plane ) to appear to be "washed out" of color. Note the sailors on top of turret #1 (left side of photo, extreme bottom). They are applying 5-H. Earlier they had spilled some on the roof, leaving a circle from the paint can. Mississippi (BB-41) in the background is still in Measure 1. Close-ups show her caulk marked to be painted in slotches of S.B. (5-S) and O.G. (5-0) only. Idaho (BB-42) (not shown), New Mexico and the vessel behind her all carried standard three color splotch patterns of 5-S, 5-0 and 5-H." |
Partial text courtesy of USNHC photo # 19-N-27362. Camoflage text courtesy of "United States Navy CAMOUFLAGE of the WW2 ERA" by Larry Sowinsky, the "Floating Drydock", Phil.PA.,1976.) & submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 180k | President Hayes (AP-39) view from overhead, looking forward from just off the starboard side amidships, while the ship was at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 2 January 1942. Note her large smokestack, with a rather small exhaust at its after end, ship's bell mounted on the smokestack base, and the landing craft davits on the midships' superstructure. The lighter YF-244 is alongside the battleship New Mexico (BB-40) at left. | Photograph USNHC # NH 93910, from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | |
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