The USS Nevada Reunion will be held at South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chuck Pride has made a 35-minute movie "Battleship Nevada" which took him two years.
After commission and sea trials, the USS Nevada went to Europe where it joined the battleships Oklahoma and Utah escorting Allied convoys during World War I. It was home ported at Pearl Harbor in 1940. Three officers and 47 men were killed and 5 officers and 104 men injured. Two crew members won the Medal of Honor and 13 received the Navy Cross.
After Pearl Harbor it received preliminary repairs and sailed under its own power to Bremerton Navy Yard in Washington state where it underwent $23 million in repairs, refitting and modernization for eight months.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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