At Pearl Harbor that day, the battleship USS Nevada was hit by six bombs and a torpedo. Fifty-seven were killed and 109 wounded.
It was the only vessel on Battleship Row to get underway.
After temporary repairs at Pearl Harbor it sailed to Pugent Sound, Washington for more repairs and a major overhaul to modernize it.
Returning to service, it participated in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands After that the Nevada led the offshore firepower in Operation Neptune against Utah Beach on D-Day and is credited for knocking out 90 German tanks and 15 trucks.
--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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