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USS Nevada (BB-36), the third United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships.Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, [c] oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range ...
The Nevada class comprised two dreadnought battleships—Nevada and Oklahoma—built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. [a] They were significant developments in battleship design, being the first in the world to adopt "all or nothing" armor, a major step forward in armor protection because it emphasized protection optimized for long-range engagements before the Battle of Jutland ...
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USS Nevada (BB-36) 10 × 14 in (356 mm) (2x3, 2x2) 8–13.5 in (203–343 mm) 27,500 tons 2 × screw propellers 2 × steam turbines with geared cruising turbines 4 November 1912 11 July 1914 11 March 1916 Struck 12 August 1948; Sunk as a target 31 July 1948 USS Oklahoma (BB-37) 2 × screw propellers 2 × triple-expansion steam engines
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1948 Ship State Description USS Nevada United States Navy: The decommissioned Nevada-class battleship was sunk as a target approximately 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests. Penstone United Kingdom
Task Force is a 1949 American war film filmed in black-and-white with some Technicolor sequences about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from USS Langley (CV-1) to USS Franklin (CV-13). Although Robert Montgomery was originally considered for the leading role, [ 3 ] the film stars Gary Cooper , Jane Wyatt , Walter Brennan , Wayne Morris ...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.