Off to War / 1942 - November 1944
December 1944 - Victory in the Pacific
1946 - 1963
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76k | Hull test model for the South Dakota class (BB-57 - 60) battleships. Hull model number 3536, photographed at the Experimental Model Basin, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., in 1938. Note the widely spaced skegs, supporting the outboard propeller shafts, that were a unique feature of this battleship class. Copied from the Bureau of Ships monograph "United States Battleship Designs for World War II", dated 1 June 1946. | USNHC # NH 93908, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
 | 248k | Part 1 of "16 Gun Turret General Arangement Plan View # 78541-143 for Massachusetts (BB-59), dated 6 Oct. 1941. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 248k | Part 2 of "16 Gun Turret General Arangement Plan View # 78541-143 for Massachusetts (BB-59), dated 6 Oct. 1941. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 161k | Indiana (BB-58) under construction at Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News VA., several months before her launching. | USN photo courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
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145k | Indiana (BB-58) sliding down the ways at Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News VA., 21 November 1941. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | |
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601k | The Indiana (BB-58) is almost waterborne as she slides down the ways at Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News VA., 21 November 1941. | International News Photo courtesy of David Buell. Photo added 08/31/08. | |
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813k | View of the ship's stern, showing her twin outboard skegs, with five-bladed propellers at their after ends. Four-bladed inboard propellers are faintly visible, with the ship's twin rudders directly aft of them. Taken in drydock at the Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 13 March 1942. | Text courtesy of photo USNHC # NH 93910, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Photo courtey of Pieter Bakels. | |
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787k | Photo show the "skeg" hull form that all the fast battleships had. The Indiana (BB-58) and her sisters were unique in the fact that their skegs were on the outside of the hull and contained their outer propeller shafts. | Text courtesy of photo USNHC # NH 93909, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Photo courtey of Pieter Bakels. | |
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959k | Port side view of the outer propeller shafts of the Indiana (BB-58) in drydock at the Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 13 March 1942. | Photo courtey of Pieter Bakels. | |
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112k | View of the Indiana's (BB-58) forward 16"/45 guns, taken at Newport News, Virginia, on 30 April 1942, the day of her commissioning. Note anchor chains and capstains, armored conning tower and Mark 38 main battery director atop her superstructure. Fire control radar antennas have not yet been fitted atop her gun directors. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # NH 80-G-6692, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | |
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111k | Indiana (BB-58) as completed. It is a Newport News Shipbuilding photo taken by the company at the ship's completion. Her lines are clean and planes, 20mm and 40mm guns, and radars aren't yet installed. | Courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding. | |
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43k | As completed in 1942. Good view of ship's boats and boat cranes. | USN photo. | |
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99k | Norfolk, Virginia on 20 May 1942. Note her rudimentary bridge, with an enclosed gallery below it. The object atop her conning tower is a spotting glass; it was ultimately replaced by a Mark 27 radar. Slits in the fire control tower were for battle lookouts. | USN photo. Text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
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118k | Norfolk, Virginia on 20 May 1942 basically as completed. | USN photo. | |
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92k | Underway, off Norfolk, Virginia, on 15 August 1942. A good detail shot of the main and secondary battery arrangement, 20mm A.A. mounts at the bow, and her superstructure arrangement. | USN photo. | |
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142k | 8 September 1942 at Hampton Roads, Virginia. | USN photo. | |
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106k | Sept. 1942 photo of the Indiana (BB-58) wearing a "fake bow" off of "A-turret". | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, courtesy of the The Floating Drydock by Thomas F. Walkowiak. | |
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