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18k | Port side view of the rebuilt Mississippi (BB-41) in late 1932. In addition to the engineering, machinery, armor and superstructure improvements, the main battery gun elevation was raised from 15 to 35 degrees for increased range. #4 turret shows the rifles at 35 degrees. | USN photo. | |
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108k | Bows on view of the Mississippi (BB-41) undergoing modernization at Norfolk Navy Yard, April 1933. Her main guns and superstructure have been completley removed. | National Archives photo (NARA) # 18089 submitted by Joe MacDonald. | |
 | 242k | New Mexico(BB-40) and her sisters lie in anchor, probably at San Pedro California sometime between October 1934 & 6 December 1940 before she was transferred to Pearl Harbor. | U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of David Buell. | |
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71k | Commemorative post mark on the occassion of Mississippi's (BB-41) participation in Fleet Week at Seattle, Washington, July - August 1935. | Courtesy of Jack Tretule. | |
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48k | Port side view of the rebuilt Mississippi (BB-41) during her participation in Fleet Week at Seattle, Washington, July - August 1935. From 1934 - 41 she operated off the west coast, except for winter Caribbean cruises. | USN photo. Text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 280k | Idaho (BB-42) & one of her sisters, New Mexico (BB-40) or Mississippi (BB-41) at anchor in Seattle, circa during her participation in Fleet Week, July - August 1935. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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212k | Commemorative postal cover of the Mississippi (BB-41), 19 December 1936. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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232k | Mississippi (BB-41) underway in a Pacific port, circa post mid 1930's. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 800k | Very large 1936 photo of Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor. Among the ships in the harbor are:
On the far left are two New Orleans (CA-32) class heavy cruisers. Neither ship can be positively identified, but I believe the outer one (the one furthest from the camera) to be either New Orleans (CA-32), Quincy (CA-39), or Vincennes (CA-44). The battleships from left to right: Colorado (BB-45), or West Virginia (BB-48), outboard of Idaho (BB-42), Nevada (BB-36), outboard of Mississippi (BB-41), New Mexico (BB-40), outboard of Maryland (BB-46) or California (BB-44). On the far right is the Hospital ship Relief (AH-1) with two unidentified ships ahead and to her port side. | Text courtesy of David Johnston, (USNR) & Aryeh Wetherhorn (USNR). Photo courtesy of Edward Cwalinski, submitted by Barry Litchfield. | |
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85k | Operating at sea during the later 1930s. She has three SOC aircraft on her catapults. The original photograph is dated 20 March 1951, about a dozen years after it was actually taken. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # USNHC 97362, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
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89k | Undated pre war image. | Jesse P. Mannix/USN photo. | |
 | 242k | A New Mexico (BB-40 / 42) class battleship in the van with other battleships of the Pacific Fleet with its air arm over head. This photo dates from no earlier than 25 June 1937, when Douglas began delivery of 114 TBD-1s (the only mono-planes in this picture) and between 20 May 1941 when the New Mexico's were transferred to the Atlantic Fleet. "The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons of rubber, enough to makes 17,000 tires, are used in the construction of each of these battleships. Tons more are needed for the naval planes that are making history over the world. Medical and communication requirements--and countless other needs of the Navy--are met." |
Photograph # LC-USE64 - DC-000944 & partial text courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Photo added 02/16/08. | |
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64k | The Mississippi (BB-41) at the time of her rebuild at Puget Sound Naval Yard, Washington, 8 March 1940. | Photo # 434-40, courtesy of Seattle NARA RG-181, submitted by Tracy White. | |
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99k | Starboard broadside view of the Mississippi (BB-41) as rebuilt. The three New Mexico's (BB-40-42) were the last to be rebuilt. They could be distinguished by their searchlight platforms. The Mississippi and Idaho (BB-42) had theirs far above their controls, with long struts, but the New Mexico (BB-40) hade her control cabins directly under the lights. Quite unlike their presecessors, they had tower masts supporting Mark-28 5-inch directors, the first to combine range finder and calculator into a single unit. The small cylinders were mark 31 directors, with an armored range finder at the forward end of the bridge structure. Below it, were secondary battery controls and battle lookout stations (note the eye slits), with the navigating bridge below that, then the chart house platform, the radio direction-finder platform, and the conning tower platform. Note the four 0.50-calibere machine guns visible on the latter. The radio direction finder itself was housed between the funnel and the bridge structure. The Idaho, fitted as a flagship, had a flag bridge below her navigating bridge. Her chart house was on the radio direction-finder platform. |
USN photo. Partial text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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113k | Bow view of the Mississippi (BB-41) in an undated pre-WW II photo. The New Mexico class were distinctive in their superstructure arrangement after their 1930's rebuild. Note that she still mounts a range dial, mounted above the bridge. This and those remaining on other older battleships, were removed at the beginning of WW II. | National Archives photo courtesy of Mike Green. | |
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25k | Xmas aboard the Mississippi (BB-41), 1940. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
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224k | A George Winstead photo of the Mississippi (BB-41) after she returned to Norfolk VA., 16 June 1941, she prepared for patrol service in the North Atlantic | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
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236k | A George Winstead photo of the Mississippi (BB-41) after she returned to Norfolk VA., possibly on Navy Day. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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259k | An anchored Mississippi (BB-41) lies in a bay, her scout planes have all been off-loaded. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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207k | Mississippi (BB-41) underway in a pre-war photo. | USN photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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91k | Steaming through heavy weather in the North Atlantic, September 1941. | Collection of Vice Admiral Robert C. Giffen. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # USNHC 94649 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
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50k | Mississippi (BB-41) painted "North Atlantic Gray" at anchor at Iceland in October, 1941. | USN photo. | |
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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. | |
| Crew Contact And Reunion Information USS Mississippi BB-41 Contact Name: Mr. Stanley Airington Address: 1030 E Louisiana St Norman, OK, 73071-4421 Phone: 405-329-8387 E-mail: None |
Crew Contact And Reunion Information USS Mississippi ARG-128 Contact Name: Mr. Jack Hefferman Address: 163 Shawn's Hideaway, Millsboro, DE, 19966 Phone: 302-947-1896 E-mail: None |
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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