From the Dec. 7, 2013, RGJ "Chuck Weller: Nevada played rich WW II role."
The USS Nevada was making for open sea at Pearl harbor that day when it was hit by multiple bombs and intentionally run aground. The crew earned two Medals of Honor and 13 Navy Crosses that day.
It was there at the Japanese surrender and had aboard it a saddle built in Reno with a silver plaque reading "Presented to Admiral Frederick Halsey, USN, for use on the favorite white horse of the emperor of Japan, by the Reno Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the war bond buyers of Washoe County, Nevada, 1945."
The saddle was recently returned to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
--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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