![]() The ship had never been an impersonal thing to us she was always an entity, emitting power, pride and security to all those, friends or enemies, who came into contact with her" (p. The author quotes a former crew member as saying, "It seemed that we of the Nevada had lost a dear friend-more than that, a family member-indeed, a surrogate mother. The sturdy ship survived two blasts, its distinguished career ending not due to enemy action, but to friendly fire by everything from the 16-inch guns of the battleship USS Iowa (BB 61) to torpedoes from Navy aircraft. Deemed obsolete after the war, it served as a test subject for atomic weapons at Bikini Atoll in 1948. Refloated, repaired, and refitted, the battleship served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during the Second World War, escorting convoys and providing gunfire support to amphibious landings in the Aleutians, France, Iwo Jima, and finally, Okinawa. ![]() The only battleship that managed to get underway at Pearl Harbor, Nevada survived bomb and torpedo hits by grounding itself to prevent sinking. Between the wars, Nevada survived the treaty restrictions imposed on the world's leading navies (Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States), undergoing modernization between 19. Nevada had a starring role in the drama, serving with a squadron of American battleships supporting the British Grand Fleet and escorting convoys. Even the neutral United States got into the act, and this set the stage for the American Navy's arrival as a force to be reckoned with in the First World War. This was the age of the dreadnought, when the great powers competed to build the biggest, fastest, best-armed and -armored battleships afloat. Nevada's epic began with its design in the years preceding the First World War. This fascinating book describes not only the life of a battleship, but the emergence of the United States as the world's leading naval power. During the ship's career, it served with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea, withstood the attack on Pearl Harbor, and participated in the invasions of Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Navy on 31 July 1948, laying to rest a vessel that survived not only two global conflicts but two atomic bombs tested at Bikini Atoll. ![]() Launched on 11 July 1914, the USS Nevada (BB 36) was sunk by the U.S. Younger's Silver State Dreadnought tells the story of a ship and its crew through two world wars.
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