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 | 146k | Line drawing of the West Virginia (BB-48) showing her configuration after her rebuild. | Drawing courtesy of Jean Secardin. (Please contact him for permission to use any of his drawings) @perso.wanadoo.fr/ww2 | |
 | 126k | Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D intended for battleships modernized from the BB-45 (Colorado) class. West Virginia (BB-48) wore this pattern. This plan, showing the ship's starboard side, superstructure ends, and exposed decks, is dated 18 March 1944 and was approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 80-G-109734, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 135k | Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D intended for battleships modernized from the BB-45 (Colorado) class. West Virginia (BB-48) wore this pattern. This plan, showing the ship's port side, is dated 18 March 1944 and was approved by Captain Torvald A. Solberg, USN. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph # 80-G-109733, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 52k | Bow view of the West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock. Although it is not polite to call attention to a ladies' added weight, please note her bulges added for torpedo protection. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 58k | Bow view of the West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock at Puget Sound. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 58k | Stern view of the West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 41k | Starboard stern view of the West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 61k | Looking up from below at 32,600 tons of West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 69k | Old Glory flutters from the stern of the West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 89k | Signal flags lie across the deck of the West Virginia (BB-48) pierside at Puget Sound. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 64k | The West Virginia (BB-48) lies alongside the hammerhead crane pierside at Puget Sound. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 71k | Looking down the length of the West Virginia (BB-48) decked anchor chain and her business end, pierside at Puget Sound. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 64k | The West Virginia (BB-48) plows through the Pacific. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 72k | Showing final configuration after rebuild at Puget Sound Navy Yard, June 1944. Main batteries are all trained out to starboard. | USN photo. | |
 | 31k | Starboard view showing final configuration after rebuild at Puget Sound Navy Yard, June 1944. Superstructure styled after South Dakota class with single funnel fared into it. Bulges added for torpedo protection and 4 - 5" double secondary turrets also added. | USN photo. | |
 | 227k | West Virginia (BB-48) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard finishing overhaul on 28 June 1944. Note workers painting 5-O Ocean Gray for her Measure 32 / 7D camouflage on forward deck and chains for paravanes rigged. Mississippi (BB-41) is in background across the pier. | USN photo # 2536-44 from NARA San Francisco, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard General Correspondence Files, courtesy of Tracy White. Photo added 09/26/09. | |
 | 28k | Port side view showing final configuration after rebuild at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 2 July 1944. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. | USN photo. Text i.d. courtesy of USNHC photo # 19-N-68375. | |
 | 75k | Off Puget Sound Navy Yard, July 1944, after rebuilding. | USNHC # 19-N-68376, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 29k | Seen in Puget Sound Navy Yard 2 July 1944 after an extensive overhaul which drastically altered her appearance. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7D. She now looks virtually identical to the Tennessee class. | USN photo. Partial text courtesy of USNHC photo # 19-N-68374. | |
 | 99k | The Hatfields and McCoys. "Converted Mountaineers" on West Virginia (BB-48), 1944. | USNHC photo # NH 89343. | |
 | 90k | "No Justice" issues a ruling at the "Royal Court" as "Justice" stands mute, during the trial of "polliwogs" in Equator crossing ceremonies for the battleship's crew, October 1944. | USNHC photo # NH 89341. | |
 | 99k | Leyte Invasion, October 1944. Cony (DD-508) lays a smoke screen near West Virginia (BB-48), to protect shipping off Leyte from Japanese air attack, during the landings there on 20 October 1944. Note manned anti-aircraft batteries on board the battleship, including a Mark 51 director in the foreground, 20mm gun at left, 40mm quad gun mount in center and 5"/38 twin gun mounts beyond. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # 80-G-289679, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 129k | In floating drydock ABSD-1, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 13 November 1944. The battleship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-314220, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 126k | Same photo as #21, with West Virginia (BB-48) enlarged. 9 November 1944 photo of the ship entering floating dry-dock ABSD-1. She differed from the South Dakotas in the fact that she was conned from a location forward and beneath her main battery director and that her forward surface lookouts were stationed atop the flag bridge just below her conn. | USNHC # 80-G-314220, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 106k | View from the water line of the West Virginia (BB-48) 9 November 1944 at floating dry-dock ABSD-1. | ||
 | 61k | The West Virginia (BB-48) inboard profile, 1945. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 106k | The West Virginia (BB-48) stands off to port with the support vessels of the invasion fleet. | ||
 | 36k | Standing out brightly in her camouflage paint scheme, the West Virginia (BB-48) guards the landing craft as they head toward the beaches, April, 1945 at Okinawa. #2 and #3 turrets are trained outward, ready to provide immediate covering fire, if necessary. | USN photo. | |
 | 59k | Landing craft and converted LCS(L)s pass the West Virginia (BB-48) as they head towards shore. The LCS(L)s have been converted to in shore support craft, being rearmed with 6 - 40mm guns and 10 rocket launchers. | USN photo. | |
 | 48k | 40mm gunners onboard the West Virginia (BB-48) aim at targets overhead above the invasion fleet off Okinawa. | Susy Forbes / USNI. | |
 | 208k | Sky watch aboard the West Virginia's (BB-48) in 1945. | Photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 30k | Damage from a kamakaize attack on the West Virginia (BB-48), April 1945. | Photo from WWII Damage Reports, courtesy of NavSea / dcfp.navy.mil. | |
 | 54k | West Virginia (BB-48) anchored in Sagami Wan, Japan, outside Tokyo Bay, circa late August 1945. Mount Fuji is in the background. | National Archives # NH 89362. | |
 | 296k | A painting by the artist Wayne Scarpaci depicting the West Virginia (BB-48) anchored in Sagami Wan, Japan, outside Tokyo Bay, August 1945. | Drawing courtesy of artbywayne.com. | |
 | 262k | A painting by the artist Wayne Scarpaci entitled "Tokyo Bay Sunset". The drawing depicts the West Virginia (BB-48) at anchor at the base of Mt Fujiamia in Tokyo Bay, Sep. 1945. | Drawing courtesy of artbywayne.com. | |
 | 17k | Envelope labeled "Empire Occupation Forces - Japan", depicting the West Virginia (BB-48) anchored in Sagami Wan, Japan, outside Tokyo Bay, August 1945. Mount Fuji is in the background. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle. | |
 | 267k | Twelve page PDF article on the Navy Day Program for the battleship West Virginia (BB-48), in San Diego, CA on 27 October 1945. In this photo, the West Virginia is anchored in Sagami Wan, Japan, outside Tokyo Bay, circa late August 1945. Mount Fuji is in the background. | Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
 | 98k | A line drawing by A.L. Raven of the West Virginia (BB-48) in late 1945. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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