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 | 118k | The first of the following two images, show the West Virginia (BB-48) being mothballed. They are good detail shots and show her in dry-dock at Puget Sound 12 April 1946, being inclined as well as being prepared for de-humidification. Of interest is the small radars that replaced the optical rangefinders, on #3 turret and the fact that all 20mm mounts have been removed; the quad 40mm mounts were removed completely or covered, in preparation for the mothball "cocoons". | USN photo. | |
 | 112k | The second of the following two images, show the West Virginia (BB-48) being mothballed. They are good detail shots and show her in dry-dock at Puget Sound 12 April 1946, being inclined as well as being prepared for de-humidification. Of interest is the small radars that replaced the optical range finders, on #3 turret and the fact that all 20mm mounts have been removed; the quad 40mm mounts were removed completely or covered, in preparation for the mothball "cocoons". | USN photo. | |
 | 1.1m | Puget Sound NSY around 1948. There are five mothballed Essex class (CV-9) carriers at the left. To the right of the carriers are five battleships. I believe they are Alabama (BB-60), West Virginia (BB-48), Maryland (BB-46), Indiana (BB-58), Colorado (BB-45). | USN Photo courtesy of Joe MacDonald. | |
 | 1.3m | "Proud battleship West Virginia (BB-48) sails majestically by downtown Seattle as tugs help her into shipyard where she will be torn apart for scrap. Her sister-ship,Colorado (BB-45) has also been scrapped. | AP Photo courtesy of Denis Mikkelsen collection via Carol Edgemon Hipperson author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor & World War II in the Pacific (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martins Press, 2008) & The Belly Gunner: An Eyewitness Account of Stalag 17 & World War II in Europe (Twenty-First Century Books / Millbrook Press, 2001). Photo added 09/23/10. | |
 | 118k | West Virginia (BB-48) being towed away to be scrapped, 1 March 1959. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of wvculture.org-history and submitted by Joe MacDonald. | |
 | 103k | Disassembling the West Virginia (BB-48). | Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of Todd Pacific Shipyards / wvculture.org-history and submitted by Mike Green. | |
 | 124k | A shipyard worker torching an armored uptake of some kind (Perhaps the aft Fire Control tower; note the severed electrical cables lining the structure) of the West Virginia (BB-48). | Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of Todd Pacific Shipyards / wvculture.org-history and submitted by Mike Green, text courtesy of Dan Morgan. | |
 | 131k | The end of the West Virginia (BB-48). | Official U.S. Navy Photograph courtesy of Todd Pacific Shipyards / wvculture.org-history and submitted by Mike Green. | |
 | 631k | CPO Terry Clancy stands by the memorial wreath for the West Virginia (BB-48) during Survivor's Day ceremonies at the Arizona Memorial Visitors Center, 5 Dec 1991. The event honors the sailors and Marines of the battleships that were sunk or damaged in the 7 Dec. 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05802, by PHC Chet King, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 61k | Al Rodrigues, left, a Pearl Harbor survivor, places a wreath on the West Virginia (BB-48) memorial during the 63rd Commemoration of the 7 Dec. 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec. 2004. More than 200 distinguished visitors and Pearl Harbor survivors attended the ceremony, which included the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) rendering honors, more than 40 wreath presentations, a 21-gun salute, and a missing man flyover. | U.S. Navy photo # N-3207B-077 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jennifer Bailey, courtesy of news.navy.mil. | |
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