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Colorado-class battleship; Iowa-class battleship; Nevada-class battleship; New Mexico-class battleship; New York-class battleship; North Carolina-class battleship; Pennsylvania-class battleship; South Dakota-class battleship (1939) Tennessee-class battleship; Wyoming-class battleship
This list catalogs the most honored US Naval vessels of the Second World War. It is placed in descending order of earned Battle Stars; descending accorded unit recognitions; descending ship size by type; and ascending hull number. It contains only vessels that earned fifteen or more Battle Stars for World War II service.
The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 radically altered the constraints imposed on C&R. The remaining limits imposed by the Washington and London treaties were now removed entirely; the new ship would only be limited by logistical restrictions of existing naval infrastructure, most significantly the Panama Canal and available dry docks.
California was moored in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked the port, bringing the United States into World War II. The ship was moderately damaged by a pair of torpedoes and a bomb, but a fire disabled the ship's electrical system, preventing the pumps from being used to keep the ship afloat.
Texas was never damaged as a result and it is believed that this was the only U.S. ship that stayed at general quarters for such duration at any point during World War II. She fired 2,019 fourteen-inch shells, 2,643 5-inch shells, 490 3-inch shells, 3,100 rounds of 40 mm ammunition, and 2,205 rounds of 20 mm ammunition during the Okinawa ...
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Volume Fourteen. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07065-8. O'Connell, Robert L. (1991). Sacred Vessels: the Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-1116-0. Parkes, Oscar (1990). British Battleships.
1 sunk. Converted battleship hull Imperial Japanese Navy: Essex class: 24: Aircraft carrier: 265.80 m (872.0 ft) 36,380: 4 preserved, 20 scrapped United States Navy: Clemenceau class: 2: Aircraft carrier: 265 m (869 ft) 32,800: 2 scrapped French Navy Brazilian Navy. Yamato class: 2: Battleship: 263 m (863 ft) 72,809: 2 sunk Imperial Japanese ...
The German pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots of World War II with the bombardment of the Polish garrison at Westerplatte; [3] and the final surrender of the Japanese Empire took place aboard a United States Navy battleship USS Missouri. Between the two events, it became clear that battleships were now ...